PHOTO CALL: Friends Celebrate Orbachs' "Remember How I Love You"

By Amy Lipson
11 Nov 2009

Friends of the late Jerry and Elaine Orbach celebrated the couples' autobiographical memoir "Remember How I Love You: Love Letters from an Extraordinary Marriage" Nov. 9.

Attendees of the event at The Snapple Theater Center included Regis Philbin, Richard Belzer, Len Cariou, Alan Alda, Kelly Bishop, Lorraine Bracco, Jesse L. Martin, Chita Rivera and Jerry Stiller.

"Each morning before leaving their Hell's Kitchen apartment to report to the set of 'Law & Order,'" press notes state, "Jerry wrote Elaine a short poem for her to find upon waking... Elaine stored the poems in a soup tureen given to them by David Merrick and upon Jerry's death in 2004 began gathering her favorites into the collection that would eventually become 'Remember How I Love You.' Elaine herself passed away unexpectedly on April 1, 2009 just as the book was completed."

Here is a look at the special evening:

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Poster of the book cover
Photo by Aubrey Reuben



Copies of the book signed by the participating celebrities were sold at the event with all proceeds benefiting Bideawee and The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, the Orbachs' favorite charities.