By throwing its 100 Hottest Bachelors party tonight at, ahem, Hawaiian Tropic Zone, is Gotham magazine trying to suggest half of its list isn’t gay? Or are they just over-compensating? (We’ll find out for you tonight.)

Are you curious to know which 100 or so maybe-straight bachelors Gotham magazine thinks you should be dating based purely on their level of financial success and superficial physical attractiveness? Well, wonder no more! The issue has yet to come out, but we’ve managed to covertly acquire the top-secret list of eligible (i.e. gay or unmarried) movers and shakers.

And apparently, a few of last year’s men about town are still looking for that special lady! (Repeat offenders include sleazy club owner Richie Akiva and annoying clinger-on/”designer” Jonathan Cheban, plus many, many more!)

Meanwhile, this year the bachelors had to do more than just look pretty and/or rich. They also had to come up with endearing/perfunctory/pithy responses to the question, “How will you know when you’ve found the one?”

A few of the more memorable responses:

Owen Fegan: “I just hope that when I meet her, I’ll be sober enough to realize it, or to recognize her if I ever run into her again.”

James R. Hedges IV: When we touch down in Aspen in ‘The One’s’ GV for a weekend of hiking and some very serious late-night dancing. [Ed: For those of you who don’t know, a “GV” is a jet, meaning Mr. Hedges IV expects his dream girl to have her own.]

Jared Kushner: “I’m sure she’ll tell me.”

The full list of bachelors, in pseudo-alphabetical order, after the jump.

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How David Carr’s Jason Binn news peg – that the Gotham and Hamptons magazines publisher was selling his company (to himself, sort of) to create a national luxury media conglom – turned into an article about Binn’s prowess to bring influencers together in a list that includes Carr is, well, moderately disturbing. But with lines like “his naked worship of the rich and famous makes Robin Leach seem demure,” we’ll forgive and forget.

So congrats, Jason: As a former Niche Media intern, we’ve seen your magic in full effect. And congrats, Carr: Once you’ve made it into Binn’s society pages, you’re a somebody. And we should know. We used to help manufacture “The List,” the magazine’s much-ogled roster of names of significance. How our family members ended up on there, well, we’re blaming an editing error.

This just in: Gossip gurus George Rush and Joanna Molloy have found a replacement for semi-departed tag-team stringers Chris Rovzar and Jo Piazza. Cristina Kinon, the now former associate editor at Gotham and Hamptons magazines, will be the new face floating around the gossip scene. Which means, along with Ben Widdicombe’s Lloyd Grove’s Katherine Thomson, the Daily News will be a mob scene of XX-chromosomed roving dirt receptacles.

Emails Cristina to her network of untouchables:

I’m really excited to let you all know that, after almost two years at Gotham and Hamptons, I will be making the leap from glossies to newsprint. Starting September 25, I will be working at the New York Daily News as reporter for Rush & Molloy. It’s been such a pleasure getting to know all of you during my time here, and I look forward to working with you on new projects in the future (or maybe just dishing on your celeb clients!).

No word yet as to if she will be joined by the standard male counterpart, but we hear there are some ex-Voice staffers still looking for work. Chris (when he’s back from Europe in January?) and Jo, meanwhile, are now free to roam the depths of the News features department, doing the bidding of Orla Healy while still convincing Armin Amiri they need to be inside Bungalow 8.

This mass email from Niche Media’s Keija Minor was just distributed to a swath of media scribes:

Hi all,

Just to clarify (and correct the misspelling in the Post :-)) -

Jason Oliver Nixon will become the Style Director of all Niche Media titles as of April 1. Keija Minor will be transitioning into the role of Editor in Chief of Gotham and will assume the full-force baton as of April 1. Cindi Cook is becoming the Editor in Chief of Hamptons.

So, just to clarify: The New York Post doesn’t fact-check, and Keija Minor wants to make sure ya’ll are aware she’ll be running the show (with her “full-force baton”) beginning on April Fool’s Day. A tell-tale sign if we’ve ever seen one.

• Should you consider Us Weekly an “upper echelon” magazine, then you’ll understand how publisher Jann Wenner thought he could make a cheaper spin-off of the celeb weekly. But after months of planning it looks like Wenner will have to settle with struggling to keep Men’s Journal afloat instead of a new Olsen twin haven. [NYP]

• Judith Miller and the New York Times may have their reunion sooner than expected. As early as next week the paper’s former starlet could return to the newsroom, just in time to delete those Scooter Libby love letter emails. [NYO]

• Why is Anderson Cooper going to get the better NewsNight slot? Because hot gay men with grey hair get better ratings. [TVNewser]

• One thing we never accused Niche Media’s Jason Binn of doing was stealing. And, discounting his “borrowing” of Boston magazine’s advertiser database for his Boston Common, his repurposing of Town & Country for Gotham and Hamptons will only be the second time we didn’t accuse him of stealing. [ WWD]

• Lindsay Lohan says the reason she dates those older “bad boys” (think Christian Slater, Colin Farrell and Jared Leto) is because she has “issues” with her jailbird daddy, Michael Lohan. And all this time we thought it was for the publicity.

• Finally, some good news in Kate Moss Watch™. The sinking supermodel has been offered a five-year, $5 million spokesmodel contract with online gaming site Nine.com, though she’s required to complete rehab and a two month “corporate retreat” (i.e., surveillance) or she’s outta there. Or if she relapses, whichever comes first.

• Gotham magazine released its list of “Hundred Hunkiest” NYC bachelors. Included on the tally: Mark Birnbaum, Jonathan Cheban, Gary Mantoosh, Eugene Remm and Hudson Morgan. Just because they wrote “bachelor” doesn’t mean hetero, kids.

• Jamie Foxx is revisiting his Ray-sized ego on the set of Michael Mann’s big screen remake of Miami Vice. With his contract signed before he won his Oscar, Foxx whined until his paycheck was raised to match that of Colin Farrell.

• Reese Witherspoon’s paparazzo-from-hell Todd Wallace has quite the rap sheet. Among his other misdeeds: threatening a pregnant store manager, plus convictions on battery, burglary and grand theft charges. Wallace served more than four years in a California prison and (fingers crossed!) might just extend that record.

• Anna Nicole Smith is taking her divorce settlement all the way to the Supreme Court — and they’re holding open the door for her. The justices agreed to hear her argument for the $474 million she claims was illegally kept from her after her 90-year-old husband died.