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'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 CHICAGO— Commissioner Bud Selig will decide what compensation the Boston Red Sox will receive for Theo Epstein's [...]

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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), Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto [...]

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'Welcome Back Kotter' actor Robert Hegyes dies; Kim Kardashian to guest on …

Robert Hegyes, who played Epstein on Welcome Back Kotter Star, has passed away. He was 60. The actor reportedly suffered a heart attack in New Jersey Thursday morning. Robet Hegyes, best known for playing Juan Epstein on Welcome Back, Kotter, died of an apparent heart attack on Thursday. Along with the hit '70s sitcom, Hegyes [...]

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Pat Sajak has hosted 'Wheel of Fortune' while drunk

By The Blemish, 12:53 PM on Jan 26, 2012, 0 Comments You're going to want to see these pictures of Vanessa Hudgens almost losing her bikini top. [The Superficial] Oh, good, LMFAO will be performing with Madonna at the Super Bowl. Pat Sajak, host of the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune since 1981, has [...]

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