RON PALILLO, 63
Best-known for playing Arnold Horshack in the 1975-1979 TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter" How could you not laugh when that hand shot skyward and those words resounded all over the classroom. And then, there was that trademark wheezing laugh.
And then, there were those Sweathogs, Vinnie Barbarino, Boom-Boom and Epstein's Mother. Good thing Mr. Kotter had such a good sense of humor.
I was teaching back then and had a coupla, two, three Horshacks most years. I'd just tell 'em a story about some strange relative.
Unfortunately, that role typecast him for the rest of his career and he had a hard time getting parts.
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