For viewers of a certain age, the boys of fictional James Buchanan High still had that ensemble spark that made them so popular during the run of the 1970s series. We know the break-out star from that series: John Travolta — “Pulp Fiction,” Primary Colors,” “Grease,” “Saturday Night Fever,” and the list goes on. But [...]
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Robert Hegyes, the New Jersey-born actor who played Jewish Puerto-Rican wheeler-dealer Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein on the 1970s classic “Welcome Back Kotter,” died after an apparent heart attack in his Metuchen, N.J., home Thursday morning. He was 60. Hegyes, who also co-starred on “Cagney and Lacey” and taught occasional [...]
