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"Well, what do you expect? "A grown man living in a kid's world." What do you think I'm doing out there? Cashing in my E tickets for a ride through the Magic Kingdom? You think I'm playing my gigs in The Haunted House?"
"See, it's not that we don't want to have our heart torn out, it's just that we're trying to make a ballsy record here."
"[Reading Matty's song lyrics to Marion] "Hey, baby, don't be cruel. I'm gonna pick you up and we'll have a date at the pizza parlor. You can have a pizza, and I can have one, too. But you didn't want a pizza, so I said 'So long, babe.'" See that? And you were worried that he was going to be a songwriter."
"Paul Simon - Jonah Levin"
"Blair Brown - Marion Levin"
"Rip Torn - Walter Fox"
"Joan Hackett - Lonnie Fox"
"Allen Garfield - Cal van Damp"
"Mare Winningham - Modeena Dandridge"
"Michael Pearlman - Matty Levin"
"Lou Reed - Steve Kunelian"
"Steve Gadd - Danny Duggin"
"Eric Gale - Lee-Andrew Parker"
"Tony Levin - John Dibatista"
"Richard Tee - Clarence Franklin"
"Harry Shearer - Bernie Wepner"
"Daniel Stern - Hare Krishna"
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.