R.I.P. Lenny Briscoe

Just read here that Law & Order's Jerry Orbach passed away at the age of 69.

That sucks. He was one of the only reasons (for me, anyways) to consistently watch the show over the years. I never really got into any of the 6,000 spinoffs because they didn't seem to have as gritty and three-dimensional a character as Jerry's Lenny Briscoe.

And now I hear for the first time that he had filmed some episodes of his own L & O spinoff. At the very least, maybe he'll get some of the mainstream recognition he really deserves, even if it is posthumously.