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"All right, freeze! Nobody move!"
"[to the hostages] Alright, it's the FBI, so nobody give your real name."
"[to Salvatore "Sal" Naturile] That's all they're interested in - it's a freak show to them. I can't control it, Sal - let 'em say what they want. Forget it. It don't matter."
"You know I can call anybody, they'd put it on the phone? The Pope, an astronaut, the wisest of the wise... Who do I have to call?"
"[to his mother] I'm a fuck-up and I'm an outcast! If you get near me you're gonna get it- you're gonna get fucked over and fucked out!"
"[to Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti] Bank robbing is a federal offense. You got me on kidnapping, armed robbery. You're gonna bury me, man!"
"Maria's Boyfriend: He's got my girl in there! Maria!"
"Leon: He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me."
"Pizza Boy: I'm a fucking star!"
"The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was history. And it's all true."
"In August, 1972, Sonny Wortzik robbed a bank. 250 cops, the F.B.I., 8 hostages and 2,000 onlookers will never forget what took place."
"Nobody could dream him up. His incredible bank robbery is all the more bizarre... because it's true."
"The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. Eight hours later, it was the hottest thing on live TV. And it's all true."
"The Most Bizarre Bank Siege Ever"
"Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22, 1972, everything did."
"Al Pacino - Sonny Wortzik"
"John Cazale - Salvatore "Sal" Naturile"
"Charles Durning - Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti"
"James Broderick - Agent Sheldon"
"Lance Henriksen - Agent Murphy"
"Chris Sarandon - Leon Shermer"
"Penelope Allen - Sylvia "Mouth""
"Sully Boyar - Mulvaney"
"Susan Peretz - Angela "Angie" Wortzik"
"Carol Kane - Jenny "The Squirrel""
"Beulah Garrick - Margaret"
"Sandra Kazan - Deborah"
"Estelle Omens - Edna"
"Marcia Jean Kurtz - Miriam"
"Amy Levitt - Maria"
"Gary Springer - Stevie"
"John Marriott - Howard Calvin"
"Philip Charles MacKenzie - Doctor"
"Carmine Foresta - Carmine"
"Floyd Levine - Phone cop"
"Dick Anthony Williams - Limo driver"
"Dominic Chianese - Sonny's father"
"Marcia Haufrecht - Neighbor"
"Judith Malina - Sonny's mother"
"William Bogert - TV anchorman"
"Ron Cummins - TV reporter"
"Jay Gerber - Sam"
"Edwin "Chu Chu" Malave - Maria's boyfriend"
"Lionel Pina - Pizza boy"
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.