Robby Benson narrates his writing partner (ONE ON ONE) and father author Jerry Segal’s critically acclaimed book for children of all ages:

It’s on sale now at Amazon and Audible.com!

What the Critics Say

“A wonderful story – Abundant with warmth, generosity, and poignant humor” (Kirkus Reviews)

“It’s a pleasure all the way, to read aloud or alone.” (The Bulletin)

“A fully realized picture of life with all its joys and sorrows.” (Publishers Weekly)

Publisher’s Summary

A funny thing happened on the way to America. It’s the end of the 19th century, and a man named Mordecai desperately wants to leave Russia with his wife and baby. He has given his life’s savings to a cousin, who promises to provide passports only if Mordecai meets him in a particular village: The Place Where Nobody Stops. Mordecai and family arrive in the village, and wait. They wait for 10 long years. And what strange and wonderful years they are!

©1991, 2010 Jerry Segal

Funny and revealing.

On Beast:  ”I’ve never been so perfectly typecast.”

On love:  ”I do completely believe in love…I’m a complete romantic.”

Also discusses his upcoming book I’M NOT DEAD… YET!

Click on the link  “Robby Benson’s role as the Beast” and check it out!

Robby Benson has almost finished his memoir, I’M NOT DEAD… YET!

I’M NOT DEAD… YET! is a funny and poignant look at surviving four open heart surgeries for a congenital valve defect, while forging ahead with a dynamic creative career in and out of Hollywood.

Robby has mentored fellow patients since his first surgery in 1984. His goal in writing I’M NOT DEAD… YET! is to broaden his outreach to open heart patients and their loved ones, helping them get through surgery and recovery with knowledge and humor.

(This photo was taken by Karla just two weeks after his successful reverse Ross procedure by the only man in the world who performs them — the brilliant Dr. Gosta Petterson — at the famed Cleveland Clinic.  Here’s  Robby, after running two miles to the beach, about to swim in the Atlantic!)

Robby’s first book, WHO STOLE THE FUNNY? A NOVEL OF HOLLYWOOD published by HarperCollins (2007) made the best seller list of the L.A. Times.

Robby Benson’s Warner Bros. basketball classic ONE ON ONE (1977) is finally available on DVD. Benson wrote the screenplay for ONE ON ONE (with Jerry Segal) at age 17, not only to expose the issues surrounding the inequities in ‘amateur’ college athletics, he wrote One on One because HE LOVED TO PLAY THE GAME. Benson’s basketball skills at the time were lauded by everyone from John Wooden to Red Auerbach (Robby was offered a spot personally by Auerbach for Celtics rookie camp) to Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Bradley, Reggie Miller, and scores of other top college and NBA and players and coaches through the years.

Cast in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Robby bought out his contract when Warner’s gave One on One the green light. As an actor/athlete Robby Benson was the real thing. (Billy Mills — the only USA 10,000 meter Olympic Gold Medal winner, personally chose Robby to portray him in Running Brave). Plus, any guy from 8 to 80 who saw One on One fell in love with Benson’s love interest, the gorgeous red-headed tutor played by Annette O’Toole.

Click here to go to Warner Bros. Archive online and find out how to get One On One on DVD.

Peter Travers tweets his lesson from Reggie Miller: ONE ON ONE with Robby Benson

REGGIE MILLER NBA legend and star of the new documentary WINNING TIME just screened at Sundance, gives film critic Peter Travers the definitive answer to the question — what hoops film Hollywood got right?  One on One with Robby Benson.

Thanks for schooling him Reggie!