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And in other Law & Order news
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From TV Guide online:
Despite his "criminal" past, Sopranos regular Michael Imperioli has been tapped to appear in this season's final three or four episodes of Law & Order. While Jesse L. Martin is off making Chris Columbus' big-screen adaptation of Rent, the Emmy winner will pinch-hit as a temporary new partner for Dennis Farina.
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And even MORE L&O news from TV Guide online:
For the first time this season, Dick Wolf is smiling. His flagship Law & Order narrowly beat CSI: New York in the ratings on Wednesday. On the final night of sweeps, Law & Order averaged 14.7 million viewers to CSI: New York's 14.6 million viewers.
 
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Did I mention that I also like Vicent Onifrio? I didnt think so. :D :lol:
 
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hopefully he is back to work soon and feeling better.
 
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on Dec 25, 2004 the following was reported (Long Story).
Quiet, please." It's a common enough request on the set of a television show. Usually, however, it booms out from a disembodied off-camera voice, not the star.

But Vincent D'Onofrio, 45, who plays Robert Goren, the implacable know-it-all detective on NBC's Sunday-night series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," is not inhibited by television production etiquette. Ready to rehearse a scene being shot in a kitchen of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel this week, Mr. D'Onofrio, a Brooklyn native, quieted the crew with the gently intimidating authority one might expect of a former nightclub bouncer.

He was similarly assertive as the production continued: Working opposite Chris Penn, a guest star who was playing a celebrity chef, Mr. D'Onofrio overrode the production team's kibitzing on how Mr. Penn should handle a knife ("Let Chris do what he wants to do"), called for rethinking a bit of business with a plate ("It would be nice for him actually to have something to do. Let's figure it out."), and announced when the scene had been sufficiently rehearsed ("All right. Let's shoot.").

"I like to stick my nose in everybody's business," Mr D'Onofrio said during a break in a Waldorf reception room, explaining both his own boundary-blurring approach to filming and his affinity for Orson Welles, who also was hardly a production wallflower.

Mr. D'Onofrio portrayed Welles in the movie "Ed Wood" in 1994, and last summer began working on a short film about Welles, which will feature the actor as co-producer (with his business partner, Ken Christmas), director and star.

The film, based on an event taken from Welles's life, is the sort of demonstration tape that Hollywood often requires of actors aspiring to direct feature films. It is also the sort of demanding project that can dismay their bosses - particularly when the moonlighting contributes to the performer's being hospitalized with exhaustion, as Mr. D'Onofrio was, twice, last month. Dick Wolf, the creator of the "Law & Order" franchise, said he was "not thrilled" to learn earlier this year that the linchpin of "Criminal Intent" was spending the hiatus after the show's third season working on the Welles film. "You really need all of the strength you can get in the down time," Mr. Wolf said.

Two other factors made Mr. D'Onofrio a candidate for fainting episodes that landed him in the hospital. One is the workload he carries. Hourlong television drama series are so notorious for their 14-hour days that lead actors sometimes have contracts stipulating that they will appear in a maximum of about 14 scenes per episode; Mr. D'Onofrio, a movie character actor with little television experience before signing up for "Criminal Intent," does not have that contract provision. While "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" spread the work among an ensemble of actors, "Criminal Intent" leans more toward the traditional single-protagonist formula.

Mr. D'Onofrio and his co-star, Kathryn Erbe, who plays his partner, Detective Alexandra Eames, appear in about 28 to 30 scenes per episode, the show's executive producer, Rene Balcer, said, adding that "Vincent has a huge number of lines."

The other factor was a simple matter of personality. "To say that Vincent is hands-on would be an understatement," Mr. Wolf said.

The producer could imagine the amount of work that Mr. D'Onofrio was putting into editing and finishing the Welles project at night after long days filming this fall, he said, but "I didn't want to know."

When Mr. D'Onofrio was hospitalized and his health status unclear while tests were being run, Mr. Wolf confronted the possibility of having to change lead actors at a time when the show was being sold into syndication to the Bravo and USA cable channels for a record $1.92 million an episode. (Both cable channels are owned by NBC Universal Inc.)

Replacing Mr. D'Onofrio was "a frightening prospect," Mr. Wolf said, because it would have meant tampering with the mysterious chemistry that bonds a show with a large audience. Nonetheless, he made a list of candidates, "as anybody in their right mind would have." One of the possibilities included actor Chris Noth, who was a "Law & Order" regular in the early 1990's and was scheduled to be a "Criminal Intent" guest star in January.
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Jerry Orbach obit

Jerry Orbach dead at 69
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 10:39 AM EST (1539 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Law & Order" star Jerry Orbach has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the show said Wednesday.

Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan after several weeks of treatment, Audrey Davis of the public relations agency Lippin Group said.
When his illness was diagnosed, he had begun production on NBC's upcoming spinoff "Law & Order: Trial By Jury," after 12 seasons playing Detective Lennie Briscoe in the original series. His return to the new show had been expected early next year.

On Broadway, the Bronx-born Orbach starred in hit musicals including "Carnival," "Promises, Promises" (for which he won a Tony Award), "Chicago" and "42nd Street."

Among his film appearances were roles in "Dirty Dancing," "Prince of the City" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors."
 
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:eek:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
:(
*sobs*
*cries*
No!
He was soul of L&O..at least to me.
Rest in peace :(
 
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E! Online News "Jerry Orbach Dies" here is some info..
Birth Name: Jerome Bernard Orbach
Birthdate: October 20, 1935
Birthplace: Bronx, New York
Height 6' 2"
Date of Death: December 28, 2004

Significant Other(s)& Family:
Wife: Elaine Orbach dancer; married October 7, 1979
Wife: Marta Orbach married June 21, 1958; divorced 1975
Father: Leon Orbach, restaurant manager, former vaudevillian
Mother: Emily Orbach (née Olexy), radio singer, greeting-card manufacturer
Son: Anthony Nicholas Orbach; mother, Marta Orbach
Son: Christopher Ben Orbach, actor; mother, Marta Orbach

Awards:
1969: Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Performance, Promises, Promises
1969: Tony: Best Actor in a Musical Play, Promises, Promises
1999: Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence

Credits: Internet Movie Database because this post would be way to long otherwise.
Early this year, Orbach left "Law & Order," hoping for more flexibility in his schedule. He found that flexibility by signing on to reprise his Briscoe character on "Law & Order: Trial By Jury."
In December, it was revealed that Orbach was suffering from cancer, leaving the drama to work around his treatment schedule. At the time, Orbach's people were optimistic about his recovery.
 
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:eek:NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Rest in peace jerry... :( :( :( X 10000


He was the best thing on L&O! :( Ill be sure to miss him! :(
 
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LAW & ORDER MARATHON

Scheduled to air on TNT network on January 2, 2005 (this was planned before Jerry's death) but i thought it would be a good way to honor his memory.

NBC put this on their website Remembering Jerry Orbach 1935-2004

And

Tonight Broadway will be dimming their lights in his memory.
 
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Wow, unbelieveable. Last year, a buddy of mine got to play cards with him in Atlantic City.
 
Re: L&O SVU & Trial By Jury News

Found these at Tv Guide Online

Question: Hey, I just read "The Ausiello Report" in the new issue of TV Guide magazine and I was psyched to learn that Stephanie March is returning to Law & Order: SVU in February! Any chance she might stick around?

Ausiello: Sadly, it's just for the one episode. But exec producer Neal Baer isn't ruling out another Alex Cabot sighting down the line, so keep your fingers crossed. (No worries, Mariska, you're still my favorite.)
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REMEMBERED: Broadway theaters dimmed their lights Wednesday night to honor song-and-dance man-turned-Law & Order star Jerry Orbach, who died Tuesday of prostate cancer.

"He was an anchor who brought style, security and razzle-dazzle to our original Chicago company," said Chita Rivera, Orbach's costar in the 1975 production. "He was a swell guy."

Orbach's long-time Law & Order co-star, S. Epatha Merkerson, remembered him as a "real good guy" who "had a real lust for life and the work he did, and it permeated throughout the set."

NBC, meanwhile, says production of Law & Order: Trial by Jury, the franchise's latest spin-off, will proceed despite Orbach's passing. "The producers are deeply saddened," a spokesperson for the show says.

"While Jerry is irreplaceable, Trial by Jury is an ensemble and will continue in production. A new member will join the company. Announcements will be forthcoming."

Six episodes of Jury have already been shot; at least three of them will feature Orbach's Detective Lennie Briscoe character. The show, which also stars Bebe Neuwirth and Amy Carlson, is slated to debut in March.
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Entire Cast of Trial By Jury:
Jerry Orbach = D.A. Investigator Lennie Briscoe
Kirk Acevedo = D.A. Investigator Hector Salazar
Candice Bergen = Judge Amanda Anderlee (2005)
Amy Carlson = ADA Kelly Gaffney
Carey Lowell = Jamie Ross
Bebe Neuwirth = ADA Tracy Kibre
Fred Dalton Thompson = DA Arthur Branch
 
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