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Actor and director Paul Glaser has faced bad news before. Eleven years ago, he and his wife Elizabeth learned that she had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion and had unknowingly passed the infection on to their two children, Ariel and Jake. Since then both Glaser's wife and his daughter have died. So he wasn't altogether surprised when doctors told him in November that the levels of HIV in Jake's blood had started to climb--a sign that the 12-year-old's immune system was beginning to fail. But neither was Glaser totally prepared...
Undaunted, Glaser decided to take the chance that might save his only remaining child. "If you're drowning in a river, and someone throws you something that looks like it will float and looks like it might not, you're still going to grab onto it--aren't you?" he asks. Glaser's gamble seems to have paid off. Within two weeks of starting treatment, Jake's viral count had dropped below his doctors' ability to measure...
...inspire the more independent, creative types, however, Glaser paid RealMilk pitchman and film auteur Spike Lee to make three five-minute online "films." "Before this technology came into play, there was always a question about whose work would get seen and whose wouldn't," said Lee during the press demo. The Pavarotti of the Net looked on and beamed...
...video, it should be noted, is something that other companies have already demonstrated. But my bet is that Glaser will be the one to popularize it and make it work. That's because Glaser, 35, has been preparing for this moment since he was eight. He joined the computer revolution in third grade, when a teacher tried to keep the young math whiz quiet by marching him off to program a hulking mainframe. In high school, he and his pals jury-rigged a low-powered radio station that skirted fcc rules and broadcast student news and sports programs...
...after a decade, Glaser quit, a millionaire yearning for his activist past. "I wanted to put up my periscope and regain some perspective on the world," he says. You see, if Gates was Glaser's business role model, Cesar Chavez was his muse. A grape boycotter from way back, Glaser wrote a college-newspaper column called "What's Left" and has always been passionate about bottom-up grass-roots movements. Money, as far as Glaser is concerned, can be damned. "I'm not interested in the purely economic end of this anymore than Pavarotti is interested in getting paid...