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DEPARTURES

Jerry Orbach leaves ''Law & Order'' this week after 12 seasons. Yes, he's in a mid-season spin-off, ''Law & Order: Trial by Jury,'' but no one will ever beat his delivery of cynical death puns before ''L&O'''s opening chung-chung. Jimmy Fallon left ''Saturday Night Live'' on May 15, off to play the Post-''SNL'' Movie Career Game: great (Bill Murray) or suck (Rob Schneider). But who'll be the perfect sugar to Tina Fey's spice? -- Ken Tucker

PREMIERE

''Saved!'' mean girl Mandy Moore (with Patrick Fugit and Macaulay Culkin) says the flick's ''over-the-top'' kids brought back her own school days. Girls were ''so dramatic,'' she recalled on the red carpet May 13. ''The world was always coming to an end.''