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"My name is Joe Clay. I'm an alcoholic."
"I walked by Union Square Bar. I was going to go in. Then I saw myself, my reflection in the window, and I thought, "I wonder who that bum is." And then I saw it was me. Now look at me. I'm a bum. Look at me! Look at you. You're a bum. Look at you. And look at us. Look at us. Come on, look at us! See? A couple of bums."
"You remember how it really was? You and me and booze — a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I got hold of something that kept me from going under, and I'm not going to let go of it. Not for you. Not for anyone. If you want to grab on, grab on. But there's just room for you and me — no threesome."
"Thanks for the compliment, but I know how I look. This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say? You see, the world looks so dirty to me when I'm not drinking. Joe, remember Fisherman's Wharf? The water when you looked too close? That's the way the world looks to me when I'm not drinking."
"From the days of wine and roses finally comes a night like this."
"This, in its own terrifying way, is a love story."
"It's different. It's daring. Most of all, in its own terrifying way, is a love story..."
"Jack Lemmon - Joe Clay"
"Lee Remick - Kirsten Arnesen Clay"
"Charles Bickford - Ellis Arnesen"
"Jack Klugman - Jim Hungerford"
"Alan Hewitt - Rad Leland"
"Tom Palmer - Ballefoy"
"Debbie Megowan - Debbie Clay"
"Maxine Stuart - Dottie"
"Jack Albertson - Trayner"
"Ken Lynch - Liquor Store Proprietor"
"Gail Bonney - Gladys the Cleaning Lady"
"Mel Blanc - TV Cartoon Characters (voice)"
"Jack Riley - Waiter"
"Katherine Squire - Mrs. Nolan"
"Lisa Guiraut - Belly Dancer"
"Jennifer Edwards - Debbie Clay at age 5"
"Lynn Borden (uncredited) - party guest"
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.