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Cutting up with country singer Tammy Wynette on TV’s Hee Haw
Lindsey drew on his own small-town background for the
role, but insists Goober was not simply a carbon copy of him
self. "The writers created Goober," he says. "I just played him.
Goober was che kind of character who'd walk into a restaurant
and say, 'Great salt!’ He had just a simpler way of looking at
things."
Since 1992, Lindsey has lived in Nashville, Tenn., where his
home is decorated to reflect his wacky sense of humor.
“I was at the mall shopping and there was this life-size
mannequin of a girl posed like she was getting ready to dive,"
he says. “Well, 1 bought it. She's now in my kitchen.”
J 1m Clark, president of the Nashville-based Andy Griffith Rerun
Watchers Club, comprised of more than 1,250 chapters around the
country, attests to the eccentric decor. “George has his home deco
rated with mounted animal heads, which is not that unusual—until
you notice they are all cross-eyed,' Clark says.
Divorced since 1991, Lindsey has two grown children who still
live in California. He appears about 75 dates a year in solo comedic
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performances and as part of the Cornfield Country Show, featuring some of his fellow cast members
from the TV series Hee Haw, on which he appeared from 1972 to 1992.
Lindsey also participates each spring in the George Lindsey Film Festival in Florence, which
he began in 1998 as a showcase for independent filmmakers (this year's festival runs March 1-
4, for more information, visit u u u.lindseyfilmjes.com online) and in his annual golf tournament,
a fund-raiser tor Special Olympics in Montgomery, Ala. Once an avid golfer, Lindsey has been
forced to find a new hobby due to his health.
I have neuropathy in my feet and can't walk the golf course anymore, so I have taken up a
new form of recreation—finding restaurants," he says. He's sworn off meat—except for an occa
sional serving of meatloaf from a local Cracker Barrel restaurant —since a stroke in 1986.
But Lindsey continues to delight fans everywhere through his memories of a bumbling,
fumbling garage mechanic—whose influence and popularity extend far beyond the city limits
of fictitious Mayberry. 'ln Goober, George has created a true pop-culture icon." Clark says. "He
helps us find that little—or maybe not so little—Goober in each of us.”
Andy Keenam is a writer in Florence. Ala.
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