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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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