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One widespread reaction to the show's format was a revulsion -- the kind that apparently helps, not hurts, ratings -- that women had agreed to marry themselves off to an unknown man on a television show.
Women around the country discussed the show animatedly yesterday, some complaining it reinforced stereotypes of women desperate to be married, others clearly taken with the show's fantasy element. The Fox Web site (www.whowantstomarry.com) was so flooded with requests from women to be on the next edition of "Multimillionaire" that it crashed yesterday afternoon.
(Thu Feb 17, 2000 - 11:09:01 am)