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Oh, lord. The woman loves her doughnuts. Fried ones. *whimper*

Bobby Flay thinks doughnuts are underrated lately. “Everyone is suddenly on a health kick, but doughnuts are a very important part of cuisine, in my book,” he said at the after-party for the new Tracy Letts play, Superior Donuts.
Even the play, about a doughnut shop in Chicago, “gives doughnuts a bad rap,” he said. “Think about it — they’re fried, they’re sweet, they have a fantastic flavor, a great contrast in texture. What’s better than a doughnut? And it goes great with a cup of coffee!”
Could health fiends add a few doughnuts to their diets? “Yeah, just serve it with yogurt,” Flay suggested.
So where do he and his wife, actress Stephanie March, go for a doughnut? “There was this Krispy Kreme that was really 200 yards away from our apartment. I’m sad it’s closed now,” March said. Flay went with a foodier favorite, Doughnut Plant, who catered the party: “They’re really good,” he said. “And they’re fried,” March added. “Let’s not forget they’re fried.”

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around-town/food-drink/FOODD-Bobby-Flay-Asks-Whats-Better-Than-a-Doughnut-63423157.html

Twitpic by svumac [http://twitpic.com/imrh2]

Happy birthday to Stephanie March. May you be showered with plenty of tequila today. Hopefully, literally; and hopefully with photographic proof. One can hope.

And, um, also happy birthday to the Prime Minister.

And, and.. happy 19th birthday to Dan Radcliffe, who gets better looking with every HP movie.

Still looking for my blogging mojo.

In the meantime here’s Stephanie March and Mariska Hargitay at the Gracie’s. Crappy interview. But man, Stephanie should get an NRA membership for those guns she’s sporting. Like whoah!

STEPHANIE MARCH IS GOING TO STAY WITH SVU

Ausiello just broke the news that apparently Miss March has signed on to appear for at least 10 episodes next season! (In the other episodes, she’ll be stuck in traffic)

At least? C’MON. Gimme Cabot 24/7/365. You know we like it!

Yes. Yesyesyesyesyes. YES!

*girlie scream*

*happy snoopy dance*

(This means Operation Keep Alex Cabot has met its objective. I could cry.)

Stephanie March pic spam! After the jump because I’m considerate like that.

 
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Because this was Stephanie March’s final episode (for this season! FOR THIS SEASON! We must have hope!!). And because there was so much Alex. And because I’m trying not to be mad at Neal Baer for lying about the “BIG SHOW” that was supposed to happen for Liz Donnelly and Alex Cabot.

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Stephanie, we miss you already! Tell Mariska and Chris to agree to renew contracts only if they bring back your character.

From My Famous Friend an insightful feature piece on Stephanie March back in 2006:

Stephanie has always been horribly superstitious, and the mention of anything important causes her to knock on wood. This makes it amusing to talk about important things where no wood is present—in a car, perhaps, or a big pool.

… And when being interviewed, it seems. Here she knocks on her own head when asked to comment on Farah Fawcett’s battle with cancer:

The cuteness, iz killin me.

And you thought the Kentucky Derby was all about the horses and booze.

Let’s be honest – who wouldn’t want a life-size Stephanie March doll? Even better if it comes with different outfits.

… but I never had the desire to go out there. Not even Stephanie March could convince me to check out the Derby. Those hats… the general spring awkward fashion moments… the drinks… oh, The Drink… shudder. I tried a mint julep once (mint is like crack, yo) while at a friend’s apartment over derby weekend. Decided to drink mojitos instead. [wait, so, it this like rejecting strawberries and cream at Wimbledon? Strawberries is like crack and weed put together. onnomnomnomnom] Besides, this year they didn’t have any funky horse names like last year’s ‘Anak Nakal‘. Er, tangent, returning to point of post…

The Courier-Journal has a clip of Hot Stuff and Mr. Stephanie March being interviewed on the red carpet. See it after le jump…

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So if someone watches this show can you tell me if this ep is any good? Here’s the teaser to tonight’s episode –  Stephanie plays a psychic, sharing screen time with Denis Leary’s ghost-seeing firefighter. And that’s all I know.

OK, here’s the deal, Mr. Dick Wolf and Mr. Neal Baer. I don’t want to say this twice (but apparently I have to). Since it’s official that Michaela McManus is leaving the cast of SVU, instead of throwing another new face on us, how about keeping extra-special-sauce guest star Stephanie March for next season, the entire season, full time?

You didn’t listen to me the first time, after Diane Neal left. I said you gotta bring back Stephanie March and I even gave you a really good list of reasons why. But you didn’t listen to me. (I’m always right) And what happens? Kim Grayleck, the gal from DC, wasn’t hacking it and midway into the season, you ran and called up Ms. March to salvage the remainder of this train wreck.

Because you did this, clearly you must be listening somewhere, somehow to the fans. How else would you know that none of us could stomach Grayleck? I don’t know where. I doubt it’s here. But dammit, I have to try.

So Dick…. Neal…. FORGODSAKES listen to me this time, ok? KEEP STEPHANIE MARCH AS ADA ALEX CABOT FOR THE 11TH SEASON.

Oh, if you could let Amanda Green write more, bring back DeNoon/Peterson or the Fazekas/Butters writing team, *and* straightjacket Daniel Truly so he can’t touch a single writing utensil ever again, that would be fabu.

i needs me some stephanie march!! nao!!!

Whether it be in Alex Cabot form:

(or otherwise)

I’m starting to think this is some kind of Dana Scully Syndrome. The other day, ADA Cabot used the word “specious” in a pre trial hearing and I almost had a tvgasm.

I need more of that kind of good stuff. There are no new eps of SVU until the week after. We’ll have to make do with screen caps of Stephanie playing a psychic in Rescue Me after the jump.

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I really didn’t think  Stephanie March could nerd out more than she did while on The Today Show talking about shooting the SVU ep at the UN building. Apparently I was wrong, because this CNN article reports:

Despite the imperfections of the United Nations, “SVU’s” March could not have been more thrilled with her experience filming at the U.N.

When asked what she would like to be doing if she weren’t putting away fictional bad guys as assistant DA Cabot, March said, “I would love to work for the United Nations. I have a great job, but really all I want to do is actually work in the U.N. I’m pretty excited to be here. It’s been a lifelong dream to be a part of it in some way.”

d’aaaaw… innit cute? She couldn’t have just taken the dime tour of the UN building to be “a part of it in some way”?  /snark

Here’s what I always picture when I listen to her describe her experience of being inside the general assembly hall (click to enlarge image):  

Someone make this woman a Goodwill Ambassador already. Oh, what’s that? She needs an Oscar or summat? We’ll get right on that.

Yea, so I thought I’d sneak in one more unabashed lovefest for Stephanie March before the month runs out and I can no longer call it March Madness. (Where the hell did the month go?!)

E!Online apparently got God Executive Producer Neal Baer to talk abit more about who bites the dust at the end of this season. Nothing exciting and every answer he gives is vague and open ended. But there was one bit that I was really thrilled to read:

Neal did confirm that Michaela McManus won’t be back on SVU

Well, sweet lord, the world rejoyeth! This is clearly one of those cases where it’s not that the fans didn’t give the character a chance, it’s the fact that Wolf/Baer made a horrible casting choice, realised it a little too late and had to scramble to save what’s left of this season. I guess in a way we have to thank Michaela McManus in having a hand in helping to bring back Cabot.

I snuck a glance at the teaser for this week’s episode [YouTube]… you know the one where Miss Stephanie was all excited about on The Today Show cause she got to shoot at the UN Building. Looks to be like one o’ them preachy story about some global issue or another. God save us all.