Patti Stanger

Bravo moment: Patti Stanger is truly one in a 'Million'
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Patti Stanger
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Patti Stanger certainly knows so.No love-connection stranger, Stanger is a third-generation generator of matchmaking with one major difference: Her mother and grandmother did it for love at their shul; she does it for a living.

And Stanger's is a much bigger stage.Broadcast on Bravo on Tuesday nights at 10, "The Millionaire Matchmaker" is not so much about what she does for love as for legacy.
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"Yes it is," says Stanger unabashedly, whose concept of P.C. has nothing to do with being politically correct, and everything to do with using cyberspace and one-on-ones to win hearts for clients.

She has struck gold, but ... "No gold-diggers allowed," she tells women whining for the song of their lives, hoping that that yacht-fleet owner is no yutz when it comes to his out-of-pocket profile and personality.

Under the canopy ... no, on TV are the "Millionare Matchmaker" Patti Stanger (second form right) and her co-horts

Indeed, if Tevye were a rich man, he wouldn't have to yeidel-deidel-deidel-deidel-dei.He'd just apply for a gold-haired beauty to die-for through Stanger.

(Don't worry, Golda; Stanger's golden-girl rep comes from screening out men with a ring on their finger and cows to cart home.)

What would Yenta say about all this?

"Yenta would say it's about time!"declares Stanger.
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Truth be told, beautiful and bristling, Stanger is no oracle of the ornery, even if her clients' crystal balls occasionally seem small.

"The men, they're looking for perfection," she tells me. "And a lot of Jewish girls ... this is not meant as a mean thing I'm saying ... they're a bit diva-esque.
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In this Super Bowl of bowling over sweeties, Stanger takes the offense while, at times, seeming somewhat offensive.But then, there's the decisive defense against a bad image: Cash out on any thoughts of giving money to your date, or for that matter, sleeping with him until a real commitment has been made, she advises women.

Aiding and abedding?Not until it means something!

Something in the way she moves ... alert, on the attack with alacrity, Stanger started the business eight years ago, having great expectations that seem to have been exceeded. (She previously had been marketing director of Great Expectations, the nation's oldest dating business.)

As the Bravo show shows, men are coached -- and women couched in the accoutrements of real courtship.And Stanger is very much the real thing, earning her own bravas, even as she shows others how to reel in romance.
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Indeed, Stanger's not beaming from the bimah with what she considers the bromides brought on by the rabbinate.

Sexist and the siddur?"The rabbis have got to cut it out," she says of talking of soul mates made for each other."That puts too much pressure on women."

Indeed, she is just as unorthodox in her views when speaking red-face-to-red-face with a rabbi."I went to talk to this Orthodox rabbi in Miami," and when he told her of his beliefs in bashert, "I told him he was full of it."

And she herself is full of self-confidence that comes with being a successful matchmaker.Shake-it-up shiddach?