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Can a lottery winner run an effective foundation? Meet Roy Cockrum, ‘a man of the theater’
In the early 1980s, soon after graduating from college, Roy Cockrum was trying to make it as an actor in New York. He was hanging on by his fingernails, getting paid $40 a show for two supporting roles in the off-Broadway comedy “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom …