The Love Poetry Of Jerry Orbach
The LAW & ORDER star left a love poem for his wife every single day. Celebrate Valentine's Day with some Lenny Briscoe love.
Jerry Orbach would leave home early in the morning to shoot movies and TV shows. Every day before he left he would write out a love poem for his wife, Elaine, who would read it with her coffee. She saved them all, and after Jerry died in 2004 she published the best of them in a book called Remember How I Love You: Love Letters From An Extraordinary Marriage.
The poems are a wonderful combination of silly and touching. They're especially great if you read them in Orbach's voice. The book is out of print, but here are some highlights:
