Got to have lunch with the fabulous Lanie Kazan on Wednesday and our conversation will be featured in my page 2 column in the Daily News on Sunday. I'll post an extended version for Out In Hollywood readers over the weekend but wanted to give you a little nibble now.

I asked Lanie why the gays (like me!) love her so much. Here's what she had to say: "They love me and I love them. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I am a little larger than life and I say what I feel and I sing what I feel. I have an big emotional range and I think a lot of gay men and gay women - at least more in the past and I think it's still holds true - have been caught in that inability or the fear of self expression, of really being who they are. And that's what try and do. I'm me and I'm full blown. I think a lot of gay people identify with that part of me, not afraid to express my feelings - my joy, my pain. All of it."