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Portland Observer Black H ¡StOiy Month
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One Year Anniversary
Showdogs is a full service salon. We do
baths, all over hair cuts, tooth brushing ,
nail trims, soft claws, flea treatments, mud
baths, and ear cleaning. We also have
health care and grooming products to
keep your pet clean in between visits.
Show Dogs Grooming Salon & Boutiqi
926 N. Lombard
Portland, OR 97217
503-283-1177
Tuesday-Saturday 9am-7pm
Monday 10am-4pm
Yo dawg is gonna look like a show dawg
and your kitty will be pretty.
J a c k s o n ’s K ids C em en t h is L eg acy
Singer Michael Jackson is immortalized in a ceremony where his children Prince, Blanket and
Paris use Jackson's shoes and gloves and their own hands to make imprints in cement in the
courtyard of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Jan. 26.
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‘Welcome Back’ Actor Dies
(A P)— Robert Hegyes, the actor
best known for playing Jewish
Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein
on the 1970s TV show "Welcome
Back Kotter" died Jan. 26 after suf
fering a heart attack. He was 60.
H eg y es w as a p p e a rin g on
Broadway in 1975 when he audi
tioned for "Kotter," a TV series
about a teacher who returns to the
inner-city New York school of his
youth to teach a group o f irrever
ent rem edial students nicknam ed
the "Sweathogs." They included
the character Vinnie Barbarino,
played by John Travolta.
The show's theme song, per
formed by John Sebastian, became
a pop hit.
Hegyes also appeared on many
other TV series, including "Cagney
& Lacey."
The eldest child of a Hungarian
father and Italian mother, Hegyes
wrote that he was inspired by Chico
Marx, whom he had played in a
touring production of a show about
In a 1978 photo, Robert
Hegyes portrays Juan Epstein,
the Jewish Puerto Rican student
from the comedy series "Wel
come Back Kotter.”
the Marx Bros. He also recalled how
his mother encouraged him to get
involved in theater as a teen.