Thursday, December 30, 2004

We're taking bets that no one puts Jerry in the corner...

Sadly, Jerry Orbach of Law & Order fame died yesterday at the age of 69. He was on the show for 12 years, which is an eternity when it comes to that show. He had 3 different partners, 2 captains, 3 District Attorneys, 2 Executive ADAs, and 5 ADAs. Not too bad for the king of the TV Drama one-liners.

Jerry was a great actor who had a lot of memorable movie roles. He is probably most famous for being Baby's father in Dirty Dancing. Many people don't realize that he also was the voice of Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Thankfully he and his wisecracks will live forever in reruns on TNT and TBS.

Unfortunately now we just need to wait for the third famous person to pass away.