He manages to hook up with union thug Joe Castro ( Ernest Borgnine ) and his strong-arm man Gunner ( Neville Brand ), who try to frame him for a murder that also gets a potential stoolie Culio ( Frank DeKova ) out of the way and that hooks Damico up with crooked police sergeant Bennion ( Walter Klavun ) who arrests him.
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And if the characters in those other films were too aggressively or ruthlessly tough _ really, the best relationship we have toward those made men is icy admiration _ Chase made us love Tony Soprano ( the wryly sleepy-eyed, smarter-than-he-lets-on James Gandolfini ), even as he tightened a wire around the gasping throat of a stoolie.
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The character also got a trio of big boosts in the'80s with John Huston's 1985 black comedy " Prizzi's Honor, " in which Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner played rival hit persons who fall in love; Stephen Frears'irresistible 1985 thriller " The Hit, " about two hit men chasing a stoolie across Spain; and 1989's " La Femme Nikita, " a hugely successful French film about the training of a stylish woman assassin.
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The facility out on Highway 395 was one of about 250 places in Southern California _ the only non-sports-bar or restaurant, actually _ that had a closed-circuit party for Tyson-Holyfield II . It charged the inmates a nominal fee so they could watch something other than " Cops " on a Saturday night . ( Our stoolie on the inside tells us that even that audience thought Tyson's actions were criminal . ) _ _ The much-maligned ( for all the right reasons ) sideline reporter Jim Gray, who asked all the pointed questions that came out of his pointed head to Mike Tyson and his hyenas after the mauling.
