Bloomberg,The Ladies Man

Actress Lorraine Bracco told hundreds of women at a Manhattan rally for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's re-election that the 63-year-old billionaire bachelor is quite a catch.

"He's smart, he's good-looking, he's rich and he loves his mother - he's perfect, right?" she told a giddy crowd on Wednesday morning. "But I found out that this is pretty much the typical dating situation in New York, so we must be here for another reason."

The ladies weren't there to meet a rich man, they were gathered to launch the Women for Bloomberg effort of the mayor's campaign. Pink signs decorated the Times Square theater, where loud speakers blasted songs by Madonna and other hyped tunes.

The event kicked off with a video featuring praise from various ladies - community leaders, friends, one of his two daughters and his 96-year-old mother.

"He knows which things are right, which things are good, which things he ought to do," said his mother, Charlotte Bloomberg.

The crowd oohed, aahed and laughed at all the right moments.

Then the mayor took the stage and said that the women in his life are his "spiritual leaders."

He compared New York City to a Norman Rockwell painting, and touched on issues like reproductive health and domestic violence.

The mayor didn't miss the chance to flirt.

"I have to say I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I'd be standing on stage feeling the love and support of hundreds of women for Bloomberg," he said. "Where were you all when I was 16?"

That's So New York