{"id":2251,"date":"2004-12-29T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T19:00:06","slug":"rip-jerry-orbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Jerry Orbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=529&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20041229\/ap_en_tv\/obit_jerry_orbach\">Jerry Orbach has died.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has been an actor for decades and decades, always good, always interesting, always dedicated.  I grew up listening to him on the soundtrack for <i>The Fantasticks<\/i> and also the soundtrack for <i>42nd Street<\/i>. You may not know what a great singer he was.<\/p>\n<p>Who can forget his chilling turn as the criminal brother of Martin Landau in Woody Allen&#8217;s brilliant <i>Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/i>?  Apparently, someone else was supposed to play that part (someone famous, the name escapes me), and this person backed out at the last minute.  Woody Allen put in a call to Jerry Orbach, a native New Yorker, just down the block, and Orbach stepped in, with almost zero preparation, and filmed his scenes in that movie on only 3 days notice.  If you ever see <i>Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/i> again, WATCH Jerry Orbach.<\/p>\n<p>And think of the fact that he only had 3 days to create that character.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there is his highly successful stint on <i>Law &#038; Order<\/i>.  Jerry Orbach, to my taste, is a real &#8220;actor&#8217;s actor&#8221;.  A real collaborator, a team player &#8230; I&#8217;ve always loved that guy.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s in <i>Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/i>, I believe, that his true talent is on display.  Just WATCH him, in that cheesy brown leather coat, advising Martin Landau, leading him down the path.<\/p>\n<p>He will be HUGELY missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Orbach has died. He has been an actor for decades and decades, always good, always interesting, always dedicated. I grew up listening to him on the soundtrack for The Fantasticks and also the soundtrack for 42nd Street. You may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178174,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/178174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}