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"He is afraid. He is alone. He is three million light years from home."
"His adventure on Earth."
"The mystery. The suspense. The adventure. The call... that started it all."
"The story that touched the world!"
"Twenty years ago, one legacy, one touch, one story that touched the world."
"Dee Wallace - Mary Taylor"
"Peter Coyote - Keys, Head Scientist"
"Robert MacNaughton - Michael Taylor"
"Drew Barrymore - Gertie Taylor"
"Henry Thomas - Elliott Taylor"
"K.C. Martel - Greg"
"Sean Frye - Steve"
"C. Thomas Howell - Tyler"
"Erika Eleniak - Pretty Young Girl"
"Pat Welsh - E.T. (voice)"
"w:Anne Lockhart - Nurse"
"I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie. And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true."
"In the late 60s, there was a big probability of Satyajit Ray coming down to Hollywood to shoot The Alien based on his own short story which appeared in the then popular Bengali magazine, Sandesh. The film was to be produced by 20th Century Fox and Hollywood was waiting to embrace Ray with open arms. Alas! Due to some dirty politics played by unknown quarters, Ray's Hollywood dream had to be shelved. I have no qualms in admitting that Spielberg's E.T. was influenced by Ray's Alien. Even Sir Richard Attenborough pointed this out to me."
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.