Arnold Horshack - DEAD

True Story

RIP he will be missed

R.I.P.

Arnold Horshack

Beth should have married him

And John Travolta is still sucking dicks somewhere

He's now up in the sky

talk about a stereotyped actor, he was one of the best shakespearean actor on the stage next to henry jump the shark winkler

Horshack is a very old, and respected name. It means, "The cattle are dying."

I didn't know he was gay.

RIP

What....Where

In your casket, with a wicker basket.

On Yahoo! they mentioned a longtime partner with a picture of some guy.

Who

Hmmmmm, first Epstein and now Horshack....

Goodnight funnyman!

Aw. Always loved him on Kotter, such a lovable character.

BTW When you start a thread it's always best to post a link or photos





As Arnold Horshack, Ron Palillo was an iconic TV nerd -- and more

Ron Palillo, seen in 2008, was best known as the nerdy high schooler Arnold Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter." He died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., of an apparent heart attack. He was 63. (Mark Mains / Associated Press)

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August 14, 2012, 6:27 p.m.

Actor Ron Palillo, who died early Tuesday morning of a heart attack at age 63, will be remembered by a generation of Americans as Arnold Horshack, the whiny-voiced lovable loser he played on the hit ABC sitcom, “Welcome Back, Kotter,” from 1975 to 1979. Although Horshack was not a star student, he was undeniably a nerd. With his gawky frame, distinctive hyena-like laugh, and habit of exclaiming “oooh, ooooh, oooh” while insistently raising his hand in class, Horshack ranks alongside Screech, Urkel and Sheldon Cooper as one of the most beloved geeks in pop culture history.
So what made Horshack so iconic?
“I think everyone had a Horshack in their school, and there’s also a little bit of Horshack in all of us,” claims series star and co-creator Gabe Kaplan. He fondly recalls how perfectly Palillo embodied the nebbishy character he’d been developing for some time in his stand-up act: “When Ron walked into the audition and did his first line, ‘Hello, how are you, I’m Arnold Horshack,’ I said, ‘That’s him. That’s the guy I’ve been talking about for five years.’ ”
Palillo is said to have modeled Horshack’s signature wheezy voice on his late father, who passed away from lung cancerwhen the actor was still a child. According to “Welcome Back, Kotter” co-creator Alan Sacks, Horshack’s famous guffaw was also entirely Palillo’s creation. “We had in the script ‘laugh,’ but we didn’t have the strange sound that came out,” he says.
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It could be argued that Horshack provided a template for all future television: Take some irritating mannerisms, garish clothes, and a catchphrase or two, and you’ve got yourself a breakout star.
Palillo’s death also served as a quiet coming-out for the actor, who was survived by his longtime partner Joseph Gramm. But even before Palillo’s death, fans have speculated that Horshack, with his love of movie musicals and exuberant mannerisms, was meant to be a gay character. In a blog post today for the San Francisco Chronicle, David Wiegand arguedthat Horshack “was an important point in the timeline of how LGBT people are depicted on TV.”
It’s a claim Sacks denies – sort of. “That was never in our minds,” he says, adding, “If we did it today, maybe we would have said that.” He also says that at one point he and Kaplan were developing a “Welcome Back, Kotter” film in which Horshack was out of the closet and working as a beautician.
Whether or not Horshack was gay, “Welcome Back, Kotter,” which Sacks says was inspired by theSidney Poitier classic “Blackboard Jungle,” did put ethnic, urban characters on network television at a time of racial strife in America’s big cities. Horshack’s background was somewhat ambiguous – many viewers mistakenly assumed he was Jewish – but his fellow Sweathogs were an explicitly diverse bunch: Italian Americans, African Americans, and half-Jewish, half-Puerto Ricans. Especially compared to the more overtly political sitcoms of the era, like the Norman Lear-produced “Good Times,” “Welcome Back, Kotter” might seem passé, but its portrayal of a peacefully integrated classroom was edgy enough that ABC’s affiliate in Boston, a city then bitterly divided over the issue of school busing, refused to air the first few episodes.
Palillo may be remembered for the naïve, inarticulate geek he played on “Welcome Back, Kotter,” but he was playing against type, claims Sacks. “He was not that goofball. Everybody loved him.”


http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...otter-iconic-tv-nerd-20120814,0,5038584.story

wonder what mr. woodman would say about his student dying because we still cant find mr kotter or gabe kaplan for a comment

True story, guy comes into my ER, hand raised, going, "Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! I'm having chest pains!!!"

it's true he died, i saw it in the newspaper, but then when can you believe the newspaper. maybe he on some identity change over or undercover with no come back Kotter allowed. does anyone know if he was involved with some scurvy types? that might put him in witness protection.

"Up ya ass with a piece of glass!"

RIP funny man