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Last week the streets of Palm Springs were really overflowing with love celebrating the life of one of their own. And ours too. The late much beloved Leslie Jordan : Emmy Award-winning Will & Grace actor and star of the brilliant Sordid Lives series was getting honored on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. (And you can just see Leslie saying ‘about time too’ !)
The event had been orchestrated by director and producer Del Shores (and his Foundation) who had created the Sordid series, but more importantly, was one of Leslie’s best friends. Shores was the first one to speak but this was hardly a eulogy but a whole litany of hilarious anecdotes and hysterical memories. I don’t think he would want you to be sad either. I 
think he would want us to celebrate, and I think he would want us to rejoice, and I think he would want us to remember his light and his love and all of the laughs that he gave every one of us.
Speaker after speaker including actor/producer Emerson Collins and Leslie’s sister Cricket also shared a wealth of stories testifying about how this diminutive figure made such a major joyous impact on the lives of everyone he came in contact with. Ann Walker a co-star of Sordoid Lives said “Anywhere we went, anywhere, you’d be with Leslie, and all of a sudden you became as big a star as he did.”
We loved the comments from Cheyenne Jackson how co-star in American Horror Story “He taught me to have fun. I can get very serious about my work, [he told me to] make the most of your time And he told me to wear tighter pants.”
Whilst our own contacts with Leslie were minimal (we interviewed him twice 6 years ago ) we had personally benefited from his generous nature as he went out of his way to treat us with the same deference he would be to a major TV interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IeWRPFPSDg
"What would Leslie say about today? First of all, he'd say, 'It's about time.’” - Cricket Jordan
Labels: 2023, Cricket Jordan, Del Shores, Emerson Collins, Leslie Jordan, Palm Springs Walk of Stars
