BOKTRAVELTIPS: MOLOKA’I

MY KIM KARDASHIAN STORY:   “DON’T ASK, DO TELL”     “How far can we go?”    BY BRIAN O’KEEFE       “Are you guys OK? Are you getting what you want?”, she softly whispered with a deeply caring and concerned look. Kim Kardashian was talking to me. And Lara Spencer, one of my shows…

   “Noone ever leaves the Bubble and gets back in”     by Brian O’Keefe     “Are we gonna make it?”, I desperately asked the young woman whose name I never did get, roaring her sportscar at 90 mph on a cement median, somewhere in Michigan, cutting the stopped traffic. “Don’t worry, my Dad’s…

  ”Send the Altar Boy”   By Brian O’Keefe   I remember the stack on her desk. It was pretty big. I thought: Christmas cards in April..?  “What are you doing?”, I asked my boss of the moment, Judy Tygard. She was a senior producer at “48 Hours”, one of the many creative geniuses who…

“Just  F#*#*n’ Do It!!” By Brian O’Keefe > > I froze in my tracks at 35,000 feet. It was him. I panicked because I forgot exactly what I should do. Maybe he recognized me… I mean I had seen him up close and not so personal twice before.   But not like this. > > Not…

On the eve of my Fiftieth Birthday  (There!!  I said the number!  OK…people?)  I write about  my experience covering one of the biggest stories of our time..it occurred at a little past my life’s half-point (so far)…in a city where I have worked for three networks and in a country I have lived three times…

“WE HAD A FAMILY MEETING”     By BRIAN O’KEEFE   It was not your typical celebrity interview.  In fact “48 Hours” for many years avoided Hollywood topics.  But this shoot was special…and to me deeply personal.  Correspondent Richard Schlesinger and I were stalking …of all people, Bob Hope, in of all places: Branson, Missouri.…