The Flashback Interview: Leigh French
When I was five years old, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was revived for CBS. I was a little too young to understand the humor, but I can recall watching the reunion special that served as the pilot. That was my first introduction to my newest interview subject, Leigh French. Leigh was, of course, an essential part of the first Comedy Hour from the 60s, most memorably playing the character of Goldie O’Keefe, host of the Share A Little Tea With Goldie segments. As I grew older, I would become familiar with Leigh French in a new way as she worked as an ADR coordinator on some of the most well-known movies of the past three-and-a-half decades, working on movies ranging from three Best Picture Oscar winners, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy and Forrest Gump, to movies directed by both Rob Reiner and his late father, Carl Reiner. With all of her many credits, I knew Leigh French would make for an amazing interview subject. We’d been talking since at