Nathan Lane is opening up about the difficult path to coming out as gay, something he did in the late 1990s after achieving worldwide fame in the blockbuster hit The Birdcage.The comedy great, 64, told The Hollywood Reporter's 'It Happened in Hollywood' podcast that he had long been out to close friends and relatives when director Mike Nichols cast him opposite Robin Williams as Albert, aka the drag queen Starina, in Nichols' big-budget adaptation of the 1978 Italian-French farce La Cage aux