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"Who do you have to sleep with around here to get a Stoli martini with a twist of lemon?"
"[on Chili] He's another version of Augie, he's a loser."
"[Ginger tells Jasmine that Eddie knows a dentist looking for help] Oh, forget it! Jesus, it's too menial! I'd go nuts. I wanna go back to school, get my degree and become...you know...Something substantial. I can't just do some mindless job. I was forced to take a job selling shoes on Madison Avenue. So humiliating. Friends I'd had at dinner parties at our apartment came in and I waited on them. I mean, do you have any idea what that's like? You know, one minute you're hosting women and the next, you're measuring their shoe size and fitting them. [emotionally intense] Erica Bishop came into the store. She saw me and was so embarrassed for me, she slipped out thinking I didn't see her. [shouts] I saw you, Erica!"
"[mumbling to herself] It's fraught with peril. They gossip, you know, they talk. I saw Danny. Yes, did I tell you? He's getting married. A weekend in Palm Beach means I can wear... what could I wear? I can wear the Dior dress I bought in Paris. Yes, my black dress. Well, Hal always used to surprise me with jewelry. Extravagant pieces. I think he used to buy them at auction. It's so obvious what you're doing. You think I don't know. French au pair. ["Blue Moon" begins playing] This was playing on the Vineyard. "Blue Moon". I used to know the words. I used to know the words. Now they're all a jumble."
"He was a handsome guy with money. He was a smooth talker and pampered her. What's she gonna say? No?"
"Augie: Some people, they don't put things behind so easily."
"Cate Blanchett - Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis"
"Alec Baldwin - Hal Francis, Jasmine's ex-husband"
"Sally Hawkins - Ginger, Jasmine's sister"
"Bobby Cannavale - Chili, Ginger's fiancé"
"Louis C.K. - Al, Ginger's lover"
"Andrew Dice Clay - Augie, Ginger's ex-husband"
"Peter Sarsgaard - Dwight Westlake, Jasmine's fiancé"
"Michael Stuhlbarg - Dr. Flicker, Jasmine's boss"
"Tammy Blanchard - Jane, a friend of Jasmine's"
"Max Casella - Eddie, Chili's friend"
"Alden Ehrenreich - Danny Francis, Jasmine's stepson"
"Barbara Garrick - Diane, a friend of Jasmine's"
"Emily Bergl - Hal & Jasmine's friend"
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.