When Wes Moore was named chief executive of the Robin Hood Foundation, a top NYC poverty-fighting nonprofit that’s a favorite of Wall Street titans and A-list celebrities, it marked the latest chapter in his amazing life story.
“My life is a collection of two steps forward and one step back,” the 38-year-old tells People.
Recently, Moore, a best-selling author, combat veteran, entrepreneur (and a 2001 People top bachelor), shared some key moments of his life during a break in modeling suits for the menswear company Hickey Freeman‘s ad campaign to encourage businesses to hire veterans.
“I started understanding consequences,...
“My life is a collection of two steps forward and one step back,” the 38-year-old tells People.
Recently, Moore, a best-selling author, combat veteran, entrepreneur (and a 2001 People top bachelor), shared some key moments of his life during a break in modeling suits for the menswear company Hickey Freeman‘s ad campaign to encourage businesses to hire veterans.
“I started understanding consequences,...
- 6/29/2017
- by Diane Herbst
- PEOPLE.com
Metuchen, N.J. (AP) — Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show "Welcome Back Kotter" has died. He was 60.The Flynn & Son Funeral Home in Fords, N.J., said it was informed of Hegyes' death Thursday by the actor's family.A spokesman at JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., told the Star-Ledger newspaper that Hegyes, of Metuchen, arrived at the hospital Thursday morning in full cardiac arrest and died.Hegyes was appearing on Broadway in 1975 when he auditioned for "Kotter," a TV series about a teacher who returns to the inner-city New York school of his youth to teach a group of irreverent remedial students nicknamed the "Sweathogs." They included the character Vinnie Barbarino, played by John Travolta.The show's theme song, performed by John Sebastian, became a pop hit.Hegyes also appeared on many other TV series,...
- 1/26/2012
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
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