Matchmaker, Matchmaker

I saw this article several months ago. (Apparently MSN recycles its articles pretty often. I wonder if this is due to the American tendency to have a short “MTV” attention span. Hm. Now what was I talking about? Oh yeah, the article.)

I saw this article several months ago and came across it again today. It describes the peculiar phenomenon where people pay $1,000, $5,000, even $200,000 for personalized matchmaker services. Here’s a quote from the article, quoting a high-priced matchmaker:

“I don’t think the women who are coming to me want to meet a starving artist,” Winston says, with a refreshing candor. “They want a provider. And I feel bad because, in my photography business, I represent a lot of starving artists — and they’re great guys.”