So yesterday I started my new series with Lily Tomlin and Mary Kay Place.  I am going to try to get some photos of all of us on the set!  Magic is happening!  Something really special is in the air.  I am not a betting man (when I galloped race horses in my impetuous youth I would be depressed for days if I lost a $2 bet!)  but I would wager the house on this series.  I think it is going to be the biggest thing to hit TV in years.  I did not think we could possibly top the pilot episode but the first episode is even funnier than the pilot!  The first episode is named "The Dirty White Girl."  Linda Bloodworth Thomason saw my one-man show and loved the part where I do a dance I made up when I was a kid called "the dirty white girl."  So they gave me some money to use my idea!  And I get to perform "The Dirty White Girl" for all of America!  The people from HBO are great to work with.  Unlike the networks that throw all those shows on the air and just hope something sticks, HBO is very careful with "their product."  It takes them forever ("12 Miles of Bad Road" has been in development off and on for 2 years) but once they make the committment HBO really gets behind the show.  I'll keep you all abreast of the developments in this very special time in my life.  I feel like I have waited 25 years for this one! 

    I turned my book into Simon and Schuster last week.  Tentatively titled "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (Or How I Became Insufferably Satisfied With Myself)" it deals with being an openly gay actor in Hollywood from 1982 till I won The Emmy in 2006 for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy for "Will and Grace."  It is now with my amazing editor Ursula Cary and I am waiting to hear what she thinks!

    Well, that is about all for now.

    Love.  Light.  Leslie