Author: Brian O’Keefe
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Dear Jean: Hollywood Dreams, the Afternoon Soaps, and Letting Someone Know Before They Go
“You look so handsome, Brian.” “I got old, Brian,” said the woman next to me. I love how she always says your name at the end of each sentence. Even if no one else was present, a sign of respect and being fully present. Here she sat, receiving visitors, facing her husband, his coffin and…
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London Calling: Mind the Gap, Dearest Erica Rabbit, and Some Out-Takes from “The” Facebook!
“Is that her?!”, Erica exclaimed. “Is it Grace or is that her daughter?”, I hyper-replied. There we were in one of three living rooms in this grand little house known as The Old Bakery on The Green in a remote olde English village south of Cambridge in Merry 2015 England doing what I had sworn…
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POST ADDICTION: WHAT BRIAN WILLIAMS DID TO ME, MY FACEBOOK FRENZY AND HEAPS OF LOVE FOR A CERTAIN BLOCK OF WEST 57TH STREET!!
BY BRIAN O’KEEFE It had been nagging at me for days. I had to do it. I couldn’t wait any longer. Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent had already passed and I was still dragging my feet. I had to quit..but I was addicted. I couldn’t stop…no matter what I did. I couldn’t stop…
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To Dream, to Fly: Just like an Elevator, Seeing the World, and When Eleven Hours Isn’t Enough!
BY BRIAN O’KEEFE We were about 500 (511 to be exact) miles outside Los Angeles when it happened. Just last week. I couldn’t believe it actually was finally happening. You’d never know it. It was quiet when it occurred, when my personal milestone was surpassed somewhere over north-eastern Nevada. No noise. No yelps. No balloons.…
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My Lucky Stars: Great People Doing Great Things, My Memory Bank, and Not Much on the Cutting Room Floor
‘What is your darkest memory? Most horrible experience?”, I asked the young handsome and ever-polite man driving the car. There were no cameras, no notebook, just us blurring 70 miles an hour through his horticulture tour and 90 mile drive through southern Georgia. “Those are pecan trees…big down here. Make a lot of money with…
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My Love Affair with Food: A Not-So-Secret Addiction, Stopping the Insanity, and Making the Right Choices
“Hungry …Mister O’Keefe? ”, purred the American Airlines flight attendant in Business Class enroute to Paris sometime in the 1990’s as I was gobbling my way to obesity by 30. It caused fits and giggles for me and my traveling bestie at the time, Richard Samson….who imitated that woman for days….if not months. But looking…
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Billy O: No Saint — But Something Else! Tips from the Man Who Taught Me to Tell a White Lie… and Other Hidden Gifts from Childhood That I’ll Never Forget
It was like a scene from a movie and I remember that moment like it was happening right now. The man in front of me was wailing …crying so hard like I had never before witnessed..in my whole life. Unusual because he laughed a lot and made a lot of other people smile and laugh….sometimes…
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BAM!! — THE CHERUBIC HEART AND SOUL OF FOOD…GETTING A BIGGER PLANE …AND WHAT YOU CAN STILL GET FOR TEN CENTS!!
BY BRIAN O’KEEFE “Hey, it’s me. Is the bigger plane available?”, said the booming voice with that distinct yet subtle half New England…half New Orleans drawl. “I’ve got a few extra people coming back with me. Let’s send in the big plane!”, he said with his usual charm. The top two crown family jewels (two…
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OUR BEAUTIFUL BUBBLE OF LOVE…DANIEL, THE SPIRIT OF BERNADETTE AND THAT SPECIAL O’LEARY SOMETHING.
BY BRIAN O’KEEFE I was alone backstage with a star ….again. “I wasn’t sure I would like it, but I love it,” whispered a real live movie star sitting on her fictional law practice’s fake staircase. It was Viola Davis, known as a film actress from various supporting roles, telling me privately about her new…
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HAWAII: FIVE OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!
Where you can get Drunk on Love or Friendship, Meet a Live American Princess…and Bury the Lead. by Brian O’Keefe “He’s here”….. said the host …into a walkie talkie…when I announced my arrival at one of the fancier hotel restaurants in Honolulu, which set off a Secret Service style “perp…
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