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"[handing a fireman, Dave, a newspaper clipping] Read this, pal, and weep: "Paradise for pennies...a Garden of Eden, built on a secluded lagoon with its own private dock and speedboat included. Contact Mr. Banks, St. Nicholas.""
"I heard about this guy in Cicero, well he stiffed a loanshark, so a couple of these guys got him, cut off his arm, beat him to death with the arm, and shoved it in a food processor and made a dip out of it. Then they served it to his family at his sister's wedding. And the sister loved it so much, she wanted the recipe. It's a crazy world, isn't it?"
"Last time I smoked that stuff, they found me on top of the Sears Tower trying to build a nest."
"[to Ernest Reed, the owner of Club Paradise, during a storm] Oh, sure! Go start a revolution. It's not gonna look good on your resumé, you know!"
"[yelling at Ernest] Oh Yeah! Rattan's gonna make a nice bulletproof barricade! Why don't you just build yourself a Wicker tank??"
"[to his girlfriend Phillipa Lloyd ("Miss Philadelphia") after being released from jail] Babe, this is the only country in the world where the constitution is written in pencil."
"[creating a new slogan for his club] Club Paradise. Your Hot Spot For Fun With Guns in the Sun."
"I ain't one for these songs! I have my own songs—I'm not doing these songs."
"There's a sickness in this place, and I'm the doctor. It's time to operate!"
"[during a polo game] Sol, the boys are back. Our ship has come in. Now we've gotta deliver."
"Gentlemen, I just spoke to the owner of Club Paradise, and believe me, he is dying to sell."
"Forget this place. You guys are gonna love the Caymans!"
"[after hearing Jack's name] Moniker? What kind of a name is "Moniker"?"
"I will crush Ernest Reed!"
"I will eat his bones!"
"I'd like to thank you and ask that you remain seated, with your seatbelts securely fastened until the aircraft has come to a complete... [buzzer interrupts his announcement] Brake pressure!"
"Robin Williams - Jack Moniker"
"Peter O'Toole - Governor Anthony Croyden Hayes"
"Rick Moranis - Barry Nye"
"Jimmy Cliff - Ernest Reed"
"Twiggy - Phillipa "Philadelphia" Lloyd"
"Adolph Caesar - Prime Minister Solomon Gundy (final film role)"
"Eugene Levy - Barry Steinberg"
"Joanna Cassidy - Terry Hamlin"
"Andrea Martin - Linda White"
"Brian Doyle-Murray - Voit Zerbe"
"Joe Flaherty - Pilot"
"Steven Kampmann - Dr. Randy White"
"Robin Duke - Mary Lou"
"Mary Gross - Jackie"
"Simon Jones - Toby Prooth"
"Louise Bennett - Portia"
"Ansel "Double Barrel" Collins - Flamboyant (Ernest Reed's band)"
"Earl "Chinna" Smith - Flamboyant (Ernest Reed's band)"
"Carey Lowell - Fashion Model"
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.