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"We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but... my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in."
"I know a boy whose name is Arnie... he's, uh, 'bout to turn 18 and have a big party. I know a boy whose name is Arnie. C'mon down, buddy."
"I'm having a birthday party, but you're not invited, but you can come if you want."
"A story about the love you find...in the last place you look."
"Arnie knows a secret. His big brother Gilbert is the greatest person on the planet."
"An unusual story of life...and love in the heartland."
"Life is a terrible thing to sleep through."
"Life hasn't passed Gilbert by... it's just taken a slight detour."
"A film about the love you find... in the last place you look."
"Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape"
"Juliette Lewis - Becky"
"Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape"
"Mary Steenburgen - Betty Carver"
"Darlene Cates - Bonnie Grape"
"Laura Harrington - Amy Grape"
"Mary Kate Schellhardt - Ellen Grape"
"Kevin Tighe - Ken Carver"
"John C. Reilly - Tucker Van Dyke"
"Crispin Glover - Bobby McBurney"
"Penelope Branning - Becky's Grandma"
"Libby Villari - the Waitress"
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.