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"This may be the first epidemic in history of which no one officially died."
"Dr. Jim Curran: All right, what do we think? What do we know? What can we prove?"
"The Choreographer: The party's over."
"Dr. Dennis Donohue: When the doctors start acting like businessmen, who do the people turn to for doctors?"
"Roger Gail Lyon: This is not a political issue. This is a health issue. This is not a gay issue. This is a human issue. And I do not intend to be defeated by it. I came here today in the hope that my epitaph would not read that I died of red tape."
"Congressman Phil Burton: I'll introduce a bill. But if all the angels came dancing down to earth like the Rockettes, even they couldn't get a dime out of this administration for anything with the name "gay" on it."
"Dr. Luc Montagnier: [In French] It's amazing to me that Americans can think a disease has a sexual preference. But that's all Americans think of... Sex. Sex. Sex."
"Matthew Modine - Dr. Don Francis"
"Alan Alda - Dr. Robert Gallo"
"Ian McKellen - Bill Kraus"
"Glenne Headly - Dr. Mary Guinan"
"Richard Masur - Dr. William Darrow"
"Charles Martin Smith - Dr. Harold Jaffe"
"Lily Tomlin - Dr. Selma Dritz"
"Patrick Bauchau - Dr. Luc Montagnier"
"Nathalie Baye - Dr. Françoise Barre"
"Jeffrey Nordling - Gaëtan Dugas"
"Peter McRobbie - Dr. Max Essex"
"Christian Clemenson - Dr. Dale Lawrence"
"David Clennon - Mr. Johnstone"
"Phil Collins - Eddie Papasano"
"Bud Cort - Antique shop owner"
"Alex Courtney - Dr. Mika Popovic"
"David Dukes - Dr. Mervyn Silverman"
"Richard Gere - The Choreographer"
"David Marshall Grant - Dennis Seeley"
"Ronald Guttman - Dr. Jean-Claude Chermann"
"Anjelica Huston - Dr. Betsy Reisz"
"Ken Jenkins - Dr. Dennis Donohue"
"Richard Jenkins - Dr. Marc Conant"
"Tchéky Karyo - Dr. Willy Rozenbaum"
"Swoosie Kurtz - Mrs. Johnstone"
"Jack Laufer - Brian McDonough"
"Donal Logue - Bobbi Campbell"
"Steve Martin - The Brother"
"Dakin Matthews - Congressman Phil Burton"
"Lawrence Monoson - Chip"
"Saul Rubinek - Dr. Jim Curran"
"Stephen Spinella - Brandy Alexander"
"B.D. Wong - Kico Govantes"
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.