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"Vincent Guastaferro - Hank Sanicola"
"The True Story Of The Man And The Legend."
"The Music Was Just The Beginning."
"His Life Story And All His Music Together For The First Time."
"You've read the books. You've heard the rumors. But, you haven't seen the truth. Until now..."
"Philip Casnoff - Frank Sinatra"
"Olympia Dukakis - Dolly Sinatra"
"Joe Santos - Marty Sinatra"
"Gina Gershon - Nancy Barbato Sinatra"
"Nina Siemaszko - Mia Farrow"
"Joe Grifasi - George Evans"
"Marcia Gay Harden - Ava Gardner"
"Bob Gunton - Tommy Dorsey"
"David Raynr - Sammy Davis Jr."
"Matthew Posey - Harry James"
"Rod Steiger - Sam Giancana"
"Robert Levine - Bob Weitman"
"Dad had no interest in writing a memoir: "What good would that do?" he'd say. "My life and music are the whole of me." Of course, he was right. Film was the only way to go. His music transcends time and intensifies what the screenplay reveals in words. Enjoy."
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.