Jerry Orbach passes away
12-31-04 | 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Rogue588
Yeah, I was thinking about this too.
Part of me hopes that they'll can the work he did in the three episodes of the new L&O [save 'em for a DVD extra] and let Lenny retire into the sunset..
Part of me hopes that they'll can the work he did in the three episodes of the new L&O [save 'em for a DVD extra] and let Lenny retire into the sunset..
12-31-04 | 10:58 AM
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Dick Wolf tends to replace his characters without much fanfare. Kind of like cattle ship 'em in and out.
Let's hope Jerry Orbach gets a better send of than the proverbial "In memory of..." you sometimes see added at the end of shows for an actor/writer/director etc who passed away
PS Briscoe & Logan together are my favourites from the show
Let's hope Jerry Orbach gets a better send of than the proverbial "In memory of..." you sometimes see added at the end of shows for an actor/writer/director etc who passed away
PS Briscoe & Logan together are my favourites from the show
01-03-05 | 12:52 AM
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Anyone see the nice, simple "For Jerry" at the end of L&O: CI Sunday night? I assume he'll get them on SVU and regular L&O this week too (maybe something more elaborate on this one) and probably on the first airing of the new show.
01-03-05 | 02:30 AM
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Friends, Co-Stars Mourn Jerry Orbach
NEW YORK (AP) - Jerry Orbach was mourned with music, memories and meditation Friday during a funeral where he was eulogized as the quintessential New Yorker on the long-running police drama "Law & Order.''
"He always knew his lines - and yours too,'' joked co-star Sam Waterston, who joined about 300 people for the hourlong secular service at Riverside Memorial Chapel on Manhattan's West Side.
Orbach, a Broadway song-and-dance man who achieved his widest fame as wisecracking Detective Lennie Briscoe on TV's "Law & Order,'' died of prostate cancer Tuesday at 69.
The secular service drew dozens of show business figures, including Chris Noth, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Tony Roberts, Michael Imperioli, Brian Dennehy, Benjamin Bratt and Malachy McCourt.
Broadway legend Chita Rivera remembered Orbach from their "Chicago'' onstage partnership in the 1970s. "This huge silhouette would appear in a fedora, smoking a cigar,'' she said. "There was our anchor. There was our rock in a pinstriped suit.''
Ed Sherin, executive producer of "Law & Order,'' called Orbach "my best friend - and I imagine there are a lot of people here who would say the same.''
He described Orbach as a man who would "break into song'' at any moment, while also enjoying a reputation as "a deadly poker player'' and avid golfing partner.
"I loved playing golf with Jerry more than I loved golf,'' said Sherin, adding that Orbach was not a strict scorekeeper when playing with a friend.
The actor was equally gracious on the set of "Law & Order,'' the director said, pouring juice for nervous, dry-mouthed colleagues or whispering lines to them if they forgot them.
Orbach lay in a simple wooden coffin draped with white blossoms under the chapel's blue and gold vaulted ceiling. A half dozen pews marked "Friars Club'' were filled with fellow members of the New York organization famed for its celebrity roasts.
The service was led by family friend Elizabeth Hepburn, who started and closed the ceremony by leading mourners in a breathing meditation, interspersed with John Denver's "Perhaps Love'' played on a guitar.
The service ended with a guitar rendition of "Lullaby of Broadway'' and "Try to Remember'' - the signature song of the off-Broadway hit "The Fantasticks'' that launched Orbach's rise in New York theater in 1960, as El Gallo.
Orbach costarred in a string of hit Broadway musicals including "Carnival!,'' "Promises, Promises,'' "Chicago'' and "42nd Street,'' and in the off-Broadway hit comedy, "Scuba Duba.''
Among his film credits were "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight,'' "Prince of the City,'' "Postcards From the Edge,'' "Crimes and Misdemeanors,'' and "Dirty Dancing.'' He also was the voice of the candlestick Lumiere in the Disney animated feature "Beauty and the Beast.''
Orbach, who won a Tony Award in 1969 for "Promises, Promises,'' played Briscoe on "Law & Order'' for a dozen years and was already at work in an upcoming spinoff series, "Law & Order: Trial by Jury.''
"He chose a certain life, lived it as himself - and it worked out,'' said Waterston, struggling to keep his composure as he addressed the mourners.
Even in the last weeks before he died, Waterston said, Orbach still tried to enjoy everything from the company of friends and family to what he saw from his window at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
"He didn't quit the show before it was over,'' he said.
NEW YORK (AP) - Jerry Orbach was mourned with music, memories and meditation Friday during a funeral where he was eulogized as the quintessential New Yorker on the long-running police drama "Law & Order.''
"He always knew his lines - and yours too,'' joked co-star Sam Waterston, who joined about 300 people for the hourlong secular service at Riverside Memorial Chapel on Manhattan's West Side.
Orbach, a Broadway song-and-dance man who achieved his widest fame as wisecracking Detective Lennie Briscoe on TV's "Law & Order,'' died of prostate cancer Tuesday at 69.
The secular service drew dozens of show business figures, including Chris Noth, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Tony Roberts, Michael Imperioli, Brian Dennehy, Benjamin Bratt and Malachy McCourt.
Broadway legend Chita Rivera remembered Orbach from their "Chicago'' onstage partnership in the 1970s. "This huge silhouette would appear in a fedora, smoking a cigar,'' she said. "There was our anchor. There was our rock in a pinstriped suit.''
Ed Sherin, executive producer of "Law & Order,'' called Orbach "my best friend - and I imagine there are a lot of people here who would say the same.''
He described Orbach as a man who would "break into song'' at any moment, while also enjoying a reputation as "a deadly poker player'' and avid golfing partner.
"I loved playing golf with Jerry more than I loved golf,'' said Sherin, adding that Orbach was not a strict scorekeeper when playing with a friend.
The actor was equally gracious on the set of "Law & Order,'' the director said, pouring juice for nervous, dry-mouthed colleagues or whispering lines to them if they forgot them.
Orbach lay in a simple wooden coffin draped with white blossoms under the chapel's blue and gold vaulted ceiling. A half dozen pews marked "Friars Club'' were filled with fellow members of the New York organization famed for its celebrity roasts.
The service was led by family friend Elizabeth Hepburn, who started and closed the ceremony by leading mourners in a breathing meditation, interspersed with John Denver's "Perhaps Love'' played on a guitar.
The service ended with a guitar rendition of "Lullaby of Broadway'' and "Try to Remember'' - the signature song of the off-Broadway hit "The Fantasticks'' that launched Orbach's rise in New York theater in 1960, as El Gallo.
Orbach costarred in a string of hit Broadway musicals including "Carnival!,'' "Promises, Promises,'' "Chicago'' and "42nd Street,'' and in the off-Broadway hit comedy, "Scuba Duba.''
Among his film credits were "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight,'' "Prince of the City,'' "Postcards From the Edge,'' "Crimes and Misdemeanors,'' and "Dirty Dancing.'' He also was the voice of the candlestick Lumiere in the Disney animated feature "Beauty and the Beast.''
Orbach, who won a Tony Award in 1969 for "Promises, Promises,'' played Briscoe on "Law & Order'' for a dozen years and was already at work in an upcoming spinoff series, "Law & Order: Trial by Jury.''
"He chose a certain life, lived it as himself - and it worked out,'' said Waterston, struggling to keep his composure as he addressed the mourners.
Even in the last weeks before he died, Waterston said, Orbach still tried to enjoy everything from the company of friends and family to what he saw from his window at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
"He didn't quit the show before it was over,'' he said.
01-03-05 | 11:30 AM
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Anyone see the nice, simple "For Jerry" at the end of L&O: CI Sunday night? I assume he'll get them on SVU and regular L&O this week too (maybe something more elaborate on this one) and probably on the first airing of the new show.
Yeah I noticed that too
Yeah I noticed that too
01-03-05 | 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by shanester
Anyone see the nice, simple "For Jerry" at the end of L&O: CI Sunday night? I assume he'll get them on SVU and regular L&O this week too (maybe something more elaborate on this one) and probably on the first airing of the new show.
Yeah I noticed that too
Yeah I noticed that too
They already did it on the original last Wednesday. I was surprised though - I figured that they would air his final episode last Wednesday.
01-03-05 | 12:15 PM
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...en_tv_eo/15611
New "Law" Will Go On Sans Orbach
Thu Dec 30, 1:15 PM ET Television - E! Online
By Josh Grossberg
The show will go on.
That's the word from producers of NBC's Law & Order: Trial by Jury after the death of star Jerry Orbach, who played wisecracking NYPD Detective Lennie Briscoe on the new cops-and-lawyers drama.
Orbach, 69, died Tuesday at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center after battling prostate cancer since last spring.
His illness wasn't disclosed until just this month, however, when his manager, Robert Malcolm, told the New York Daily News that the actor had been receiving treatment for the disease and that his prognosis was good.
Upon news of his passing Wednesday, a publicist for Trial by Jury confirmed to E! that NBC would continue production on the series and will air episodes featuring Orbach. The actor appeared in three of the six episodes shot so far. The network has not announced an air date for the new show, but it is expected to debut in early 2005, most likely in late February or March.
The fourth edition of the Law & Order franchise, Trial by Jury costars Bebe Neuwirth, former Senator Fred Thompson (reprising his L&O role of D.A. Arthur Branch), Amy Carlson and Kirk Acevedo, and devotes many its ripped-from-the-headlines formula to the inner workings of the Big Apple's judicial system.
L&O mastermind Dick Wolf told the New York Times that Orbach's declining health was the main reason producers retired his tough-talking top cop from active duty on the original series after 12 seasons and transferred him to the new spinoff, where he would appear less frequently as an investigator for the district attorney's office.
Orbach agreed to the switch earlier this year to give him more time to focus on his recovery--the shooting schedule on Trial by Jury called for him to work the beat only two days a week. Wolf tapped Dennis Farina to replace Orbach on the original L&O this season.
NBC says it will soon begin the search for an actor to fill Orbach's slot on the new series.
Meanwhile, friends and former colleagues remembered the late TV star, who, before taking the L&O gig, was known for work on the big screen (Dirty Dancing, Woody Allen (news)'s Crimes and Misdemeanors) and stage, where he got his start as a song-and-dance man and eventually headlined hit musicals and won a Tony Award.
Chita Rivera, who costarred with him in the original Broadway production of Chicago, in which Orbach created the role of slick lawyer Billy Flynn, considered him one of her best musical partners.
"Jerry's strong spirit will be with me forever," she told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "He was an anchor who brought style, security and razzle-dazzle to our original Chicago company. He was a swell guy, and I'll sure miss him."
Wolf said Orbach's "loss is irreplaceable" and called the actor "a legendary figure of 20th century show business."
Former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani also paid tribute to Orbach, hailing him a "friend to all New Yorkers" and a "devoted ambassador of the city."
And S. Epatha Merkerson, who acted alongside Orbach for years on Law & Order told USA Today, said, "He was always such a feisty and strong character and person. It never occurred to me [his cancer] would go this far."
Broadway marquee lights were dimmed for one minute Wednesday night in tribute to Orbach, who was survived by his second wife, Elaine, and two adult sons from his first marriage.
New "Law" Will Go On Sans Orbach
Thu Dec 30, 1:15 PM ET Television - E! Online
By Josh Grossberg
The show will go on.
That's the word from producers of NBC's Law & Order: Trial by Jury after the death of star Jerry Orbach, who played wisecracking NYPD Detective Lennie Briscoe on the new cops-and-lawyers drama.
Orbach, 69, died Tuesday at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center after battling prostate cancer since last spring.
His illness wasn't disclosed until just this month, however, when his manager, Robert Malcolm, told the New York Daily News that the actor had been receiving treatment for the disease and that his prognosis was good.
Upon news of his passing Wednesday, a publicist for Trial by Jury confirmed to E! that NBC would continue production on the series and will air episodes featuring Orbach. The actor appeared in three of the six episodes shot so far. The network has not announced an air date for the new show, but it is expected to debut in early 2005, most likely in late February or March.
The fourth edition of the Law & Order franchise, Trial by Jury costars Bebe Neuwirth, former Senator Fred Thompson (reprising his L&O role of D.A. Arthur Branch), Amy Carlson and Kirk Acevedo, and devotes many its ripped-from-the-headlines formula to the inner workings of the Big Apple's judicial system.
L&O mastermind Dick Wolf told the New York Times that Orbach's declining health was the main reason producers retired his tough-talking top cop from active duty on the original series after 12 seasons and transferred him to the new spinoff, where he would appear less frequently as an investigator for the district attorney's office.
Orbach agreed to the switch earlier this year to give him more time to focus on his recovery--the shooting schedule on Trial by Jury called for him to work the beat only two days a week. Wolf tapped Dennis Farina to replace Orbach on the original L&O this season.
NBC says it will soon begin the search for an actor to fill Orbach's slot on the new series.
Meanwhile, friends and former colleagues remembered the late TV star, who, before taking the L&O gig, was known for work on the big screen (Dirty Dancing, Woody Allen (news)'s Crimes and Misdemeanors) and stage, where he got his start as a song-and-dance man and eventually headlined hit musicals and won a Tony Award.
Chita Rivera, who costarred with him in the original Broadway production of Chicago, in which Orbach created the role of slick lawyer Billy Flynn, considered him one of her best musical partners.
"Jerry's strong spirit will be with me forever," she told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "He was an anchor who brought style, security and razzle-dazzle to our original Chicago company. He was a swell guy, and I'll sure miss him."
Wolf said Orbach's "loss is irreplaceable" and called the actor "a legendary figure of 20th century show business."
Former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani also paid tribute to Orbach, hailing him a "friend to all New Yorkers" and a "devoted ambassador of the city."
And S. Epatha Merkerson, who acted alongside Orbach for years on Law & Order told USA Today, said, "He was always such a feisty and strong character and person. It never occurred to me [his cancer] would go this far."
Broadway marquee lights were dimmed for one minute Wednesday night in tribute to Orbach, who was survived by his second wife, Elaine, and two adult sons from his first marriage.
01-03-05 | 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Red Dog
They already did it on the original last Wednesday. I was surprised though - I figured that they would air his final episode last Wednesday.
