ELIZABETH GLASER FOUNDATION KIDS 4 KIDS

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STARS WITH A HEART
HELP CHILDREN
PREVENT AIDS
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Robert Funaro With daughter Sophia,
Gilbert Gottfried And Daughter Lily

Join The Movement-Create A Generation Free of HIV was yesterday’s theme for the Kids4Kids benefit from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation held in lower Manhattan yesterday. Twenty years ago Glaser (the wife of actor/director Paul Michael Glaser) started the organization and though she didn’t live to see the fruits of her labor, her dream continues on with a continuing vision from her son Jake (who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion gone wrong given to Elisabeth) and husband Paul. The Foundation works in 18 countries and at more than 3,700 sites around the world. It has provided more than 6.8 million women with services to prevent transmission of HIV to their babies. Their yearly New York event, save for last year which was held in midtown, is held in Lower Manhattan, with a series of carnival, games for kids. This year, actor Robert Funaro (Eugene Pontecorvo in the seminal HBO-series The Sopranos) attended with his 8-year old daughter Sophia. Funaro is staging a reading of a new project, entitled “Aria,” which stages a invitation-only reading November 18 in NYC. The play is written by Joann Tedesco, writer of the film “Whiskey Train.” Funaro is directing it with a cast including Rose Gregario, David Margulies, Joe Grifasi, Teresa Gambacorta, and Carrie Kozlowski. Also present was the brilliant Gilbert Gottfried, with wife Dara and his new son Max, and daughter Lily. Hannah Montana-star Emily Osment, actress Peyton list, actor Matthew Settle, Connor Paolo, Lizzie Grubman with son Harry, photographer Nigel Barker, TV-personality Sade Baderinwa, and, Funaro’s PR-man David (The Pasha) Salidor.