'Welcome Back, Kotter': Robert Hegyes' 'Epstein' helped alter TV

By Mervyn Rothstein Octogenarian actor Alvin Epstein, recently of Off-Broadway's The Cherry Orchard, has worked with Orson Welles, Bert Lahr, Robert Brustein and more in a lifetime of roles around the world. "The experience of live theatre is

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'One for the Money' is bankrupt material for Katherine Heigl

Whatever she was paid, “One for the Money” wasn't worth it. For starters, she's disastrously miscast as a character beloved by fans of novelist Janet Evanovich. Brash, blue-collar Stephanie Plum lives in Trenton, NJ — described by Evanovich as “a good

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Antioch's 45 North rustles up rustic feel

By Tony Gordon An Antioch man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he collected child pornography on his computer and molested a 5-year-old girl. Nicholas Jones, 29, has been in the Lake County jail on $1 million bond since his Dec. 22 arrest.

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Demi Moore 911 call is public information, for better or worse

The Demi Moore 911 call paints a picture of what was going on in Demi's house the nght she was hospitalized — including the fact Rumer was there.…

A caller on a 911 recording released by Los Angeles fire officials says Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital Monday night. The woman on the call said the actress was having convulsions, shaking and "burning up." (Jan.

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'Barefoot Bandit' sentenced to 6 1/2 years

The surfacing of emails in which the "Barefoot Bandit" bragged of his feats in stealing and flying airplanes and made fun of law enforcement authorities doesn't seem to have hurt his sentencing in federal court on Friday: The

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Marco Rubio Calls For GOP to Chill on Immigration Rhetoric

Your parents came to Miami from Cuba in the 1950s. Your dad became a bartender, and your mom worked as a hotel maid, among other jobs. Was it always clear that you wouldn't follow them into a service job? The service industry is hard, honorable work,

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'The Grey': The Reviews Are In!

We've got a snowy survival story “The Grey,” starring Liam Neeson and Dermot Mulroney), a twisty heist thriller “Man on a Ledge,” starring Sam Worthington and Elizabeth Banks), and the tale of a sassy bounty hunter (“One For the Money,” starring

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Ferris Bueller Super Bowl Ad Likely A Honda Commercial

That's before the classic "bow-bow-chicka-chicka" from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" plays, ending the preview with just the date of the Super Bowl left to tease us. It seems clear that Broderick reprises the role of Ferris Bueller, but the preview told

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Your comments: Remembering Robert Hegyes aka Juan Epstein of 'Welcome Back Kotter'

By JOSEPH EPSTEIN Meyer Levin is best remembered, if at all, as the author of the novel "Compulsion" (1956), based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case of the 1920s. But Mr. Levin (1905-81) wrote several novels, and one of them, "The Old Bunch" (1937),

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How naked is Katherine Heigl in 'One For the Money'?

The action pic opens against Summit thriller "Man on a Ledge" and Lionsgate's Katherine Heigl action-comedy "One for the Money"; award contenders "The Artist" and "The Descendants" make major expansions. Action and thrill seekers will be in hot demand

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