Category: Life of Brian
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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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MY GIRL: JENNIFER ANISTON
HOW I HONED MY STORIES OF HEART….MORE ANECDOTES FROM MY BLESSED CAREER….AND LIVING PROOF OF THE HEART OF A MOVIE STAR BY BRIAN O’KEEFE Oh. My. God. Like a bolt of lightning, a sudden squeal across the room was aimed in my direction. And then I saw her. And it WAS her.…
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ROME: ETERNALLY MINE ..AND A FAMILY DRAMA NOT MY OWN
((NOTE:This story I’m about to share with you happened during my usual 14 minute drive to work. But, in full throttle tangent-mania, it takes us a couple decades back to Rome where I spent weeks at a time working for two different networks…including that momentous trip for CBS’s 48 Hours and that search for the…
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ESTHER WILLIAMS, THE JERUSALEM GLOW, AND MORE ADVENTURE FROM MY LUCKY SEVEN CAREER
BY BRIAN O’KEEFE “You look absolutely beautiful!!”, one said to the other. It was one angelic beauty not calling the kettle black…but acknowledging the other angelic beauty in front of her. They each said the exact same thing to eachother. And they were honestly honest. Despite the fact that both were veterans in on-camera poise..this…
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