Dear MR. Kotter.

acepepe · 01-26-2012, 07:48 PM

Dear MR. Kotter, My son Juan Epstein will not be in school tomorrow, he's dead. Signed, Epstein's mother

Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on '70s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter, died Thursday, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Hegyes, who died of an apparent heart attack after suffering chest pains at his Metuchen, New Jersey home, was 60.

Hegyes had not been in good health for the past two years, his brother Mark Hegyes told the paper. The actor had suffered a previous heart attack in recent years.

Police responded to an emergency call from Hegyes' home at approximately 9 a.m. He was transported to JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey, but at that point he had gone into full cardiac arrest.

Though Hegyes also starred on the detective series "Cagney & Lacey" (as Det. Manny Esposito) and, in later years, guest-starred on shows such as "NewsRadio" and "Diagnosis Murder," Hegyes was best-known for his role as Juan Epstein -- full name: Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein -- on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" from 1975 to 1979. Perpetually scheming and always ready with a self-written note signed "Epstein's Mother" to explain his school absences, Epstein stood out among a group of characters that included the super-cocky womanizer Vinnie Barabarino (played by a young John Travolta) and hip but beleaguered high-school teacher Gabe Kotter (played by Gabe Kaplan).

Hegyes' last listed acting role on IMDB is in the film "Hip, Edgy, Sexy, Cool" in 2002.

He leaves behind a two children, Cassie and Mack, and two step-children, Sophia and Alex.

Johnny Bravo · 01-26-2012, 08:18 PM

[IMG]http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherAtoM/g_to_m/kotter/kotter08.jpg[/IMG]

:rip:

FF2® · 01-26-2012, 08:35 PM

Puertorican Jew?

So many jokes, so little time.

crossfire · 01-26-2012, 08:40 PM

[QUOTE=FF2®;4348820]Puertorican Jew?

So many jokes, so little time.[/QUOTE]

At his Bar Mitvah, they blindfolded the Moyle and he circumcised him like a piñata. :D

acepepe · 01-26-2012, 08:41 PM

Watched the show every week, Bummer.

simijet · 01-26-2012, 08:45 PM

[url]

gunnails · 01-26-2012, 08:46 PM

RIP

32green · 01-26-2012, 08:53 PM

[QUOTE=acepepe;4348771]Dear MR. Kotter, My son Juan Epstein will not be in school tomorrow, he's dead. Signed, Epstein's mother

[/QUOTE]

[I]He worked tirelessly at his craft, so that this line would be the in the lead thread title of virtually every message board in the ENglish speaking world on the day he died.[/I]

Signed

-Epsteins Mother.

crossfire · 01-26-2012, 09:02 PM

[IMG]http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/04/sweats1600.gif[/IMG]

simijet · 01-26-2012, 09:15 PM

[QUOTE=crossfire;4348835][IMG]http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/04/sweats1600.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]

If only there were another Batman movie, I'd have had the perfect role for him.

32green · 01-26-2012, 09:19 PM

[QUOTE=simijet;4348841]If only there were another Batman movie, I'd have had the perfect role for him.

[IMG]http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/04/sweats1600.gif[/IMG]

[/QUOTE]

Teh red ghey.

:eek:

FF2® · 01-26-2012, 09:22 PM

[QUOTE=32green;4348844]Teh red ghey.

:eek:[/QUOTE]

Where's Horshack? :huh:

32green · 01-26-2012, 09:30 PM

[QUOTE=FF2®;4348848]Where's Horshack? :huh:[/QUOTE]

LMAO...I was staring thinking (with my 35 year old memories) what was missing.

Damn.

:D

Washington killed him and sucked his blood! He looks great.

-

Jungle Shift Jet · 01-26-2012, 09:56 PM

horshack was sick last year..."mr Kot-taire"..."horshack is a very old and respected name. it means 'the cattle are dying'"

one of my best friends worked near his home at Cohasset South Shore Music Circus (a chowd Westbury Music Fair) and met a bunch of stars old n new in that era. said kaplan was a mean sob back then also Florence Henderson was a beeotch tooo. He was there when T. Orlando cracked up on stage

32green · 01-26-2012, 10:01 PM

[QUOTE=Jungle Shift Jet;4348865]one of my best friends worked near his home at Cohasset South Shore Music Circus (a chowd Westbury Music Fair) and met a bunch of stars old n new in that era. said kaplan was a mean sob back then also Florence Henderson was a beeotch tooo. He was there when T. Orlando cracked up on stage[/QUOTE]

Do tell. Fascinating stuff, Flushings.

Do you have any other friends that met dooshbargs.

What did he do when T. Orlando cracked up on stage.

Must have been crazy.

-

SCITSCAT · 01-26-2012, 10:01 PM

[QUOTE=Johnny Bravo;4348801][IMG]http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherAtoM/g_to_m/kotter/kotter08.jpg[/IMG]

:rip:[/QUOTE]

RIP :(

Jungle Shift Jet · 01-26-2012, 10:07 PM

[QUOTE=32green;4348869]Do tell. Fascinating stuff, Flushings.

Do you have any other friends that met dooshbargs.

What did he do when T. Orlando cracked up on stage.

Must have been crazy.

-[/QUOTE]

I may've "met" some [SIZE=1]online[/SIZE] too :dunno:

Seriously, it was a well known incident - too much Bolivian marching powder. Stopped the music mid-show, mumbled stuff, etc

[B]During a performance in Cohasset, Massachusetts, Orlando announced from the stage to a stunned audience and an even more stunned Dawn that he was retiring from show business immediately. He had worked himself to exhaustion, had developed some drug problems, and was suffering from the deaths of both his sister and his good friend Freddie Prinze. He had a nervous breakdown and admitted himself to a psychiatric ward in New York where he stayed for six months. [/B]

[URL]http://boomerhead.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212&Itemid=31&limit=1&limitstart=3[/URL]

32green · 01-26-2012, 10:10 PM

[QUOTE=Jungle Shift Jet;4348879]I may've "met" some [SIZE=1]online[/SIZE] too :dunno:

[/QUOTE]

Really? Details?

:dunno:

-

Lone Star Lady · 01-26-2012, 11:44 PM

[QUOTE=FF2®;4348848]Where's Horshack? :huh:[/QUOTE]

Ooh-ooh-ooooh!

Arnold Dingfelder Horschack :D

[IMG]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7oGnALpq5XGjsYu6tiamFjSMd8tq0ZceiChK0qHM7B14VGBA8lw[/IMG]

Loved the show; watched it all the time.

RIP Epstein

[IMG]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8ss9JRkkmISfSKFNsie6bBHO1uLvG7zIodlFgNVfDcMdbh-1k[/IMG]

crossfire · 01-26-2012, 11:58 PM

[QUOTE=Lone Star Lady;4348957]Loved the show; watched it all the time.

RIP Epstein[/QUOTE]

For many of us, we were the age demographic for this show. With only a few channels on the tv back in the day, we almost all watched certain shows of. It was a shared experience that we carry throughout our lives. Not sure that in today's technological age it's quite the same.

01-26-2012, 07:48 PM	#1
acepepe All League Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,427	Dear MR. Kotter. Dear MR. Kotter, My son Juan Epstein will not be in school tomorrow, he's dead. Signed, Epstein's mother Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on '70s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter, died Thursday, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Hegyes, who died of an apparent heart attack after suffering chest pains at his Metuchen, New Jersey home, was 60. Hegyes had not been in good health for the past two years, his brother Mark Hegyes told the paper. The actor had suffered a previous heart attack in recent years. Police responded to an emergency call from Hegyes' home at approximately 9 a.m. He was transported to JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey, but at that point he had gone into full cardiac arrest. Though Hegyes also starred on the detective series "Cagney & Lacey" (as Det. Manny Esposito) and, in later years, guest-starred on shows such as "NewsRadio" and "Diagnosis Murder," Hegyes was best-known for his role as Juan Epstein -- full name: Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein -- on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" from 1975 to 1979. Perpetually scheming and always ready with a self-written note signed "Epstein's Mother" to explain his school absences, Epstein stood out among a group of characters that included the super-cocky womanizer Vinnie Barabarino (played by a young John Travolta) and hip but beleaguered high-school teacher Gabe Kotter (played by Gabe Kaplan). Hegyes' last listed acting role on IMDB is in the film "Hip, Edgy, Sexy, Cool" in 2002. He leaves behind a two children, Cassie and Mack, and two step-children, Sophia and Alex.

01-26-2012, 08:45 PM	#6
simijet All League Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Simi Valley, CA Posts: 4,184	RIP Robert! [url]

01-26-2012, 08:18 PM	#2
Johnny Bravo SNUBBED! Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 10,695	[IMG]http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherAtoM/g_to_m/kotter/kotter08.jpg[/IMG] :rip:

01-26-2012, 08:35 PM	#3
FF2® Believes Sloppy Guy was involved JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 46,172	Puertorican Jew? So many jokes, so little time.

01-26-2012, 08:40 PM	#4
crossfire Day by day, night after night... Blinded by the neon light Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 5,672	[QUOTE=FF2®;4348820]Puertorican Jew? So many jokes, so little time.[/QUOTE] At his Bar Mitvah, they blindfolded the Moyle and he circumcised him like a piñata. :D

01-26-2012, 08:41 PM	#5
acepepe All League Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,427	Watched the show every week, Bummer.

01-26-2012, 08:46 PM	#7
gunnails All League Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Portland Oregon Posts: 4,516	RIP

01-26-2012, 08:53 PM	#8
32green The original road-kill pus slurper. MMMmmm pus. Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The depths of Despair. Posts: 37,672	[QUOTE=acepepe;4348771]Dear MR. Kotter, My son Juan Epstein will not be in school tomorrow, he's dead. Signed, Epstein's mother [/QUOTE] [I]He worked tirelessly at his craft, so that this line would be the in the lead thread title of virtually every message board in the ENglish speaking world on the day he died.[/I] Signed -Epsteins Mother.

01-26-2012, 09:02 PM	#9
crossfire Day by day, night after night... Blinded by the neon light Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 5,672	[IMG]http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/04/sweats1600.gif[/IMG]

01-26-2012, 09:15 PM	#10
simijet All League Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Simi Valley, CA Posts: 4,184	[QUOTE=crossfire;4348835][IMG]http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/04/sweats1600.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] If only there were another Batman movie, I'd have had the perfect role for him.

01-26-2012, 09:19 PM	#11
32green The original road-kill pus slurper. MMMmmm pus. Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The depths of Despair. Posts: 37,672	[QUOTE=simijet;4348841]If only there were another Batman movie, I'd have had the perfect role for him. [IMG]http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/04/sweats1600.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE] Teh red ghey. :eek:

01-26-2012, 09:22 PM	#12
FF2® Believes Sloppy Guy was involved JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 46,172	[QUOTE=32green;4348844]Teh red ghey. :eek:[/QUOTE] Where's Horshack? :huh:

01-26-2012, 09:30 PM	#13
32green The original road-kill pus slurper. MMMmmm pus. Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The depths of Despair. Posts: 37,672	[QUOTE=FF2®;4348848]Where's Horshack? :huh:[/QUOTE] LMAO...I was staring thinking (with my 35 year old memories) what was missing. Damn. :D Washington killed him and sucked his blood! He looks great. -

01-26-2012, 09:56 PM	#14
Jungle Shift Jet Occasionally stoops to uploading hotties pix to boost his postcount All Pro Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Alive with a superior intellect in an erudite world of fine tastes that you will never, EVER acquire Posts: 5,038	horshack was sick last year..."mr Kot-taire"..."horshack is a very old and respected name. it means 'the cattle are dying'" one of my best friends worked near his home at Cohasset South Shore Music Circus (a chowd Westbury Music Fair) and met a bunch of stars old n new in that era. said kaplan was a mean sob back then also Florence Henderson was a beeotch tooo. He was there when T. Orlando cracked up on stage

01-26-2012, 10:01 PM	#15
32green The original road-kill pus slurper. MMMmmm pus. Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The depths of Despair. Posts: 37,672	[QUOTE=Jungle Shift Jet;4348865]one of my best friends worked near his home at Cohasset South Shore Music Circus (a chowd Westbury Music Fair) and met a bunch of stars old n new in that era. said kaplan was a mean sob back then also Florence Henderson was a beeotch tooo. He was there when T. Orlando cracked up on stage[/QUOTE] Do tell. Fascinating stuff, Flushings. Do you have any other friends that met dooshbargs. What did he do when T. Orlando cracked up on stage. Must have been crazy. -

01-26-2012, 10:01 PM	#16
SCITSCAT Hoping Idzik is the GM we've Needed! Am Hopeful. Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,055	[QUOTE=Johnny Bravo;4348801][IMG]http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherAtoM/g_to_m/kotter/kotter08.jpg[/IMG] :rip:[/QUOTE] RIP :(

01-26-2012, 10:07 PM	#17
Jungle Shift Jet Occasionally stoops to uploading hotties pix to boost his postcount All Pro Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Alive with a superior intellect in an erudite world of fine tastes that you will never, EVER acquire Posts: 5,038	[QUOTE=32green;4348869]Do tell. Fascinating stuff, Flushings. Do you have any other friends that met dooshbargs. What did he do when T. Orlando cracked up on stage. Must have been crazy. -[/QUOTE] I may've "met" some [SIZE=1]online[/SIZE] too :dunno: Seriously, it was a well known incident - too much Bolivian marching powder. Stopped the music mid-show, mumbled stuff, etc [B]During a performance in Cohasset, Massachusetts, Orlando announced from the stage to a stunned audience and an even more stunned Dawn that he was retiring from show business immediately. He had worked himself to exhaustion, had developed some drug problems, and was suffering from the deaths of both his sister and his good friend Freddie Prinze. He had a nervous breakdown and admitted himself to a psychiatric ward in New York where he stayed for six months. [/B] [URL]http://boomerhead.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212&Itemid=31&limit=1&limitstart=3[/URL]

01-26-2012, 10:10 PM	#18
32green The original road-kill pus slurper. MMMmmm pus. Board Moderator Jets Insider VIP JetsInsider.com Legend Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The depths of Despair. Posts: 37,672	[QUOTE=Jungle Shift Jet;4348879]I may've "met" some [SIZE=1]online[/SIZE] too :dunno: [/QUOTE] Really? Details? :dunno: -

01-26-2012, 11:44 PM	#19
Lone Star Lady Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: TX via MA via CT Posts: 1,833	[QUOTE=FF2®;4348848]Where's Horshack? :huh:[/QUOTE] Ooh-ooh-ooooh! Arnold Dingfelder Horschack :D [IMG]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7oGnALpq5XGjsYu6tiamFjSMd8tq0ZceiChK0qHM7B14VGBA8lw[/IMG] Loved the show; watched it all the time. RIP Epstein [IMG]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8ss9JRkkmISfSKFNsie6bBHO1uLvG7zIodlFgNVfDcMdbh-1k[/IMG]

01-26-2012, 11:58 PM	#20
crossfire Day by day, night after night... Blinded by the neon light Jets Insider VIP Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 5,672	[QUOTE=Lone Star Lady;4348957]Loved the show; watched it all the time. RIP Epstein[/QUOTE] For many of us, we were the age demographic for this show. With only a few channels on the tv back in the day, we almost all watched certain shows of. It was a shared experience that we carry throughout our lives. Not sure that in today's technological age it's quite the same.