R.I.P. Ron Palillo

Watercooler

By Nads | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | 12:31 pm | 7 Comments
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Ron Palillo, the actor who played Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter died this morning from a heart attack. He was 63. So sad. I guess he was in good health for a smoker, but had been suffering from a bad cough…his death was unexpected to say the least.

Poor Horshack. :( R.I.P.

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

7 Comments

  1. 1
    kczar
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    Aw, Horshack and Epstein are hanging out in detention together. Very sad.

  2. 2
    KartofflMuter
    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    Aww-so sweet. You really feel old when “the kids” you watched in your youth die off one by one. I must say though,even 5 days from now,he’ll still look better than Travolta looks walking around.

  3. 3
    hot cawfee
    Posted August 16, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    This is sad– Welcome Back Kotter was a huge hit in wee years. I hope Ron knows how much laughter he gave to a young Cawfee and her classmates. I can still hear that laugh and “heelllloowwwwww”

  4. 4
    KartofflMuter
    Posted August 16, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    Cawfee- before all the rags started their whispers-(is he? well darling he must be! Can’t you tell? and -Haven’t you heard?) -or maybe they did -but the paper cost $1.90 a month,(too rich for me) and there were no computers,and there was no internet,and my TV was a 10″ black and white left over from my father’s last heart attack that his boss gave him when I was 15-my dowery. Is it really better now? Really? I loved that character. He was sweet and gentle and kind and I think ,I like to believe,he was a little like Horshack in real life. Gay people are made fun of -a lot-and with micro-second comunication,it’s even faster and crueller. No one in my family is gay (I think)But I have been an Outsider my entire life. That odd duck people love to hate. The one that the 4th grade teacher made –
    the whole class send a manila envelope full of “Get Well “cards to. I had been assaulted by a fellow student.
    Locked in his locker. He had a problem. I was 1/2 inch shorter than him. Chuck Helbling. And I bit the SOB.
    He was an SOB. He was
    Let me see- Jeff Elzinga-Racine,Wisconsin,wrote: “You can get better, but don’t come back.”
    Do you think Ron Pallilo had feelings like that?
    I know he did.
    I met all kinds of people just like him in the Theatre Dept. At UWM.
    Beaten down,put down.shut down,hiding,posing,
    Eyes wide,loss of pride, and totally sure it was
    Cyanide
    Or suicide.
    But we were family.Before Rent It was semi bent because who had the cash or the time
    To hop a tram,train,bus,to get,to NY to see Broadway to see Fame ,LameAnd I’d really like to know he understood the joy he gave. But it’s sadness that kills the sweet .You were wee. I was Ron’s age.Like Glee-they take 20+ actors and have them play 16 year olds. I never felf sorry for Ron. He was the only one on Kotter I could truly love. I hope now,wherever he is,he knows he made me cry.

  5. 5
    KartofflMuter
    Posted August 16, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    And aren’t your guns out ready to
    Aim
    Shoot
    Kill
    Me
    Now?

  6. 6
    MtnMama
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Kart, that was bizarrely beautiful. I loved it.

  7. 7
    KartofflMuter
    Posted August 20, 2012 at 9:11 am

    MtnMama-I believe that’s the only nice thing I’ve ever been called here. Thanks.

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