Paul Michael Glaser Net Worth

Paul Michael Glaser's Quotes

• On Starsky and Hutch (1975): "We had a groundbreaking show with unique characters. But all people remember is that car" (quoted in USA Today, 3 March 2004).
• The car is a character in the piece -- I've never liked the car, I submitted to its objectionable popularity.
• So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.
• So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
• Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Interesting Facts about Paul Michael Glaser

1. He and wife, Tracy Barone, have a daughter, Zoe, born in October 1997.
2. Attended Boston University School for the Arts.
3. Son of a Boston architect.
4. Member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.
5. The famous Starsky and Hutch (1975) "striped tomato" Ford Gran Torino appears briefly in an episode of The Agency (2001), directed by Glaser.
6. Wife Elizabeth Glaser was the founder of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
7. Was roommates with Andy Summers of rock group The Police.
8. Met first wife Elizabeth Glaser in June 1975, while they driving down Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. They smiled at each other, then Paul motioned for Elizabeth to pull over, where he invited her out for Chinese food. Elizabeth moved in with Paul three months later in September 1975.
9. Was roommates in college with Bruce Paltrow.
10. The writers and producers of Starsky and Hutch (1975) thought he was similar in type to the late actor Paul Muni. In fact, they even wrote it into a show where Starsky's mother says he's "the Paul Muni type".
11. Is a very close friend of director Michael Mann. They met during the filming of a Starsky and Hutch (1975) episode, adapted from Mann's screenplay, and became friends. Later Glaser directed several episodes of Mann's TV shows: Miami Vice (1984), including the Emmy-award winning Miami Vice: The Prodigal Son (1985) (from season two); and the sixth, tenth, and thirteenth (final) episodes of Robbery Homicide Division (2002). In 1986, Mann served as a producer on the Glaser directed crime film, Band of the Hand (1986).
12. Directed a PSA spot on AIDS awareness in 1989, starring a soon-to-leave-office President Ronald Reagan.
13. First wife Elizabeth Glaser contracted HIV, after an emergency blood transfusion, right after giving birth to daughter Ariel Glaser. Elizabeth passed away from complications from AIDS in 1994.
14. First child, daughter Ariel Glaser, passed away from complications from AIDS in August of 1988. She contracted HIV via breast milk, when her mother, Elizabeth Glaser, was not aware that she had contracted HIV via a blood transfusion. Her second child, Jake Glaser, contracted HIV in Elizabeth's womb. He is still alive and in reasonably good health as of December 2010.
15. His feature film debut was in the classic film Fiddler on the Roof (1971), portraying Perchik.
16. Friends with David Soul and the late Gordon Jump.
17. In a series of bizarre coincidences, Paul's personal life would strangely come to imitate Dave Starsky's, his character in his worldwide '70s hit series, Starsky and Hutch (1975). For example, in real life, Glaser would marry Tracy Barone, a woman whose name eerily rhymes with Starsky's love interest in Starsky and Hutch: I Love You, Rosey Malone (1977).