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"One family, four generations, in love with the greatest music of all time."
"Whether you dance to it, drive to it, sing with it, or swing to it...Whether you can crank it up, plug it in, or switch it on...It assaults your senses, rocks your body, and touches your soul. It's American Pop."
"All those years...All those dreams...All those sons...One of them is going to be a star."
"Zalmie should have been a star, but there were complications. Benny could have been famous, but life got in the way. Tony had a brush with success, but had to let it go. So it was up to Pete...to grab it, to hold it, to make himself heard."
"Ron Thompson as Tony Belinksy / Pete Belinksy"
"Lisa Jane Persky as Bella"
"Jeffrey Lippa as Zalmie Belinksy"
"Richard Singer as Benny Belinksy"
"Jerry Holland as Louie"
"Marya Small as Frankie Hart"
"Hilary Beane as Showgirl"
"Robert Beecher as Hobo #2"
"Gene Borkan as Izzy"
"Beatrice Colen as Prostitute"
"Frank Dekova as Crisco"
"Ben Frommer as Nicky Palumbo"
"Roz Kelly as Eva Tanguay"
"Amy Levitt as Nancy"
"Leonard Stone as Leo Stern"
"Richard Moll as Poet"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.