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Category: Life of Brian

  • How It All Began

     My Little Orange Bicycle, the search for Cheeseburgers in a Hurricane Zone and the Metamorphosis of a Great Anchorwoman   BY BRIAN O’KEEFE   “Wow..let’s go look at that..its a huge fire!”, I commanded my Lyft driver who was driving me to work yesterday.  A quick detour, I thought, just one less turn to my ABC office;…

  • THE BOOKING OF ORENTHAL JAMES

    THE BOOKING OF ORENTHAL JAMES    “Can I borrow your crew for just a few minutes?”   by BRIAN O’KEEFE     “I have something special for you, Brian.”, said Irma the adorable inner city septugenarian and aficionado and believer of O. J. Simpson. I had been nurturing and visiting with Irma for months. She…

  • LONDON: PART THREE — LONG DISTANCE LOVE, SOME LAUGHS AND SOME PAIN

    LONDON  PART THREE: 17 YEARS LATER AND THE UNEARTHING OF PAIN > > > >   > > > >   > > > >   > > > > “He regifted!!!” > > > >   > > > >   > > > >   > > > > BY BRIAN O’KEEFE >…

  • MY KIM KARDASHIAN STORY: DON’T ASK, DO TELL

    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…

  • TRAINS, PLANES AND AUTOMOBILES

       “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…

  • ST. JUDITH OF ORLANDO

      ”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…

  • HIS EXCELLENCY, THE VATICAN AND THOSE LITTLE YELLOW BOTTLES

    “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…

  • The Day Diana Died

    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…

  • Aunt Alice: 90 and Beautiful

    “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.…

  • Thank You: MIiranda in Malaga

    A LITTLE WHITE LIE..OR TWO..OR THREE. “Do you have a nice suit with you here in England, Mr. O’Keefe?”  Yes. (I didn’t)    “Have you a nice pair of dress shoes?”  “Of course,” I said. (and, of course, I did not).  I was a junior in College studying overseas…in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales, halfway…