We’re all getting older but sometimes you think to yourself, Wow, I can’t be getting THAT old!  That’s what I thought this morning when two different short news stories caught my attention.

One was about actor Robert Heyges.  He played Juan Epstein from 1975 to 1979 on “Welcome Back Kotter”.  This show was supposed to be a showcase for Gabriel Kaplan who was one of the most popular and funny comedians at the time.  What it became was a launching pad for John Travolta’s career.

Anyway, it was reported today that Robert Heyges died of a heart attack at the age of 60.  These guys must have been pretty good actors.  I always took them to be high school aged but, Heyges would have been 24 when the show started.  And according to Google, Travolta is now 58 and Kaplan is 66.  Heyges was a journeyman actor and never had another role as big as the goofy Hispanic/Jewish character he played on “Kotter”.

And another story all together isone which was first reported on ABC today and now in multiple other places as well.  Seems like “Ferris Bueller” is making a bit of a comeback for this year’s Super Bowl.

A 10 second teaser preview was released with Matthew Broderick as an all grown up Ferris Bueller.  Supposedly it’s going to be an ad for the Honda CRV.  The teaser has Bueller opening the drapes of a hotel room window and saying, "How can I handle work on a day like today?"

It has some of us hoping again for a second installment of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 26 years later.  It could be an absolute hoot.  Comparatively, Broderick is just a kid of 49. 

I think I mentioned in a comment to a Nick Leshi post not long ago that I'd love to see a sequel to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".  And I bet I’m not the only one who would love to see it.  I’d love to see it done in the same comedic style as a quarter century ago when there was no need for the type of overly obnoxious sight jokes which permeate much of what is classified as comedy today. 

Here’s the YouTube of the “teaser”: