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"[voiceover] I had moved to Los Angeles right after the war with three hundred dollars and the G.I. Bill... And I liked coming home to a place that was mine. According to President Truman I had that comin' to me 'cause I had fought in 'the good war' against Hitler in Europe. But that didn't mean a damn thing to a lotta white folks, including the foreman on my job. So, here I was out of work needin' thirty-two dollars to pay the mortgage. That was three days pay on my old job—and I had about three days to get it."
"[voiceover] It occurred to me that Coretta had found out a lot more about what I was up to than I had wanted her to. But I had found out that the rich man's woman had a colored boyfriend. It had cost me a sawbuck to get Coretta to give me that information. Well, let's just say somethin' had cost me ten dollars."
"[voiceover] It was actually looking more and more like I might not make it through this little adventure I was having. But I was likin' the chill in my blood, and the freedom of working on my own. There were times in the war when I had felt like this. When life or death where the only two choices. That made it simple. And that was alright by me."
"[voiceover] I'd been thinking about Daphne, too...wondering if she meant what she said about what could have happened between us. But at the moment I was wondering if there was any such thing as a sprained chin. But other than that and a headache, a loose tooth and a kidney that a doctor would need to look at, I felt like five thousand, three hundred dollars. And unless Albright was alive somewhere, that feelin' was gonna last a while."
"[voiceover] It scared me to think about a world that could kill a man like DeWitt Albright. What could a world like that do to me?"
"In a world divided by black and white, Easy Rawlins is about to cross the line."
"Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town."
"Denzel Washington - Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins"
"Tom Sizemore - DeWitt Albright"
"Jennifer Beals - Daphne Monet"
"Don Cheadle - Mouse Alexander"
"Maury Chaykin - Matthew Terell"
"Terry Kinney - Todd Carter"
"Mel Winkler - Joppy"
"Albert Hall - Degan Odell"
"Lisa Nicole Carson - Coretta James"
"Jernard Burks - Dupree Brouchard"
"David Wolos-Fonteno - Junior Fornay"
"John Roselius - Detective Mason, LAPD"
"Beau Starr - Detective Jack Mille, LAPD"
"Steven Randazzo - Benny Giacomo"
"Scott Lincoln - Richard McGee"
"L. Scott Caldwell - Hattie May Parsons"
"Barry Shabaka Henley - Woodcutter"
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.