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"A word about Mrs. Flax and food: the word is "hors d'oeurves". "Fun Finger Foods" is her main source book and that's all the woman cooks. Anything more, she says, is too big a commitment."
"[narrating] Please, God, let him throw me on the ground and make another Joey Junior."
"I may be pregnant with the next Jewish-Italian Messiah!"
"[everyone in town is stricken by the news of President Kennedy's assassination] It feels like there isn't a single adult left on the entire planet."
"So Joe, tell me about the nuns in the convent. Do they wear underwear in the shower? [narrating] I don't believe I said that."
"Oh, I'm going to hell for sure. Here he is, talking about his poor dead mother and I can't help wishing his hands were unbuttoning my dress!"
"OK, I've had a little scotch...I'm real calm."
"Death is dwelling on the past or staying in one place too long!"
"[Charlotte is praying at a shrine she has made in her room to the Virgin Mary] Charlotte, we're Jewish."
"[to Charlotte as she goes out to spend time with Joe] Don't do anything I wouldn't do…[pause] Or don't do anything I would!"
"[Charlotte has a newfound obsession with Greek mythology] Charlotte, we're Jewish."
"[to her sister] Act your age, not your shoe size."
"[wanting a glass of wine] Hit me, Sergeant!"
"Mom Is Many Things...Normal Isn't One of Them."
"Cher - Rachel Flax"
"Winona Ryder - Charlotte Flax"
"Christina Ricci - Kate Flax"
"Bob Hoskins - Lou Landsky"
"Michael Schoeffling - Joe Peretti"
"Rex Trailer - Dr. Reynolds"
"Jan Miner - Mother Superior"
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.