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• Robert Hegyes, an actor whose Jewish-Puerto Rican character Juan Epstein was one of the Sweathogs on the 1970s TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, died Thursday of a heart attack in New Jersey. He was 60. A resident of Metuchen, N.J.
(Houston Chronicle)
• EPSTEIN SUFFERS HEART ATTACK: Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show Welcome Back Kotter, has died. He arrived at the JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J.
(HamptonRoads.com)
• Welcome Back Kotter has lost a member of its class. According to the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on the popular 1970s comedy, died Thursday in New Jersey. He was 60.
(msnbc.com)
• The death of Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on "Welcome Back Kotter," brought back so many memories of watching that show with my family as a kid, imitating Horshack's laugh at school, wearing jean jackets.
(Albany Times Union (blog))
• Class is dismissed for Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Epstein, the Puerto Rican-Jewish Sweathog on the 70s TV series Welcome Back Kotter. Hegyes died last week of an apparent heart attack.
(The Stir)
• Oddly and bizarrely the old TV sitcom Welcome Back Kotter brings to mind similarities of Germany's old Nuremburg laws, and the Kobach inspired new immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona.
(Berkeley Daily Planet)
• Robert Hegyes, an actor whose character, Juan Epstein, was one of the Sweathogs on the 1970s TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack in New Jersey. He was 60.
(KTLA.com)
• We talked Tuesday a little bit about the all-time match up between all-timers when Tom Brady and the Pats face Ray Lewis and the Ravens this weekend in the AFC conference title game.
(Chattanooga Times Free Press)
• I inadvertently found myself singing the theme song to Welcome Back, Kotter and wondering exactly where the opening credits to that show were shot.
(Salon)
• while John Travolta rose above his working-class New Jersey roots playing dim-bulb Vinnie Barbarino on TV's "Welcome Back Kotter" in the 1970s But two eBay entrepreneurs suggest the pair's histories trace back farther — 150 years farther.
(msnbc.com)