At 05:53 PM 4/26/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
I think most of the people named were more crazy than mean.
When I think of MEAN, I think of:
Hume Cronyn as Capt. Munsey in Brute Force
Bruce is correct on Hume Cronyn being one of the very meanest of all villains
another one no one has mentioned yet is Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro in
Casino which was based on of the all time real life meanest villains.
Spilotro was possibly the greatest sadist in Vegas history
here is some data from IMDB trivia:
The "head in a vise" scene is taken from an anecdote in the book
"Casino" unrelated to the main story, describing mob enforcer
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641//name/nm1617259/>Tony Spilotro's
interrogation of a low-level gangster named Billy McCarthy, who had
committed the unauthorized murder on the Scalvo Brothers, a pair of
high-ranking mobsters within Spilotro's crime organization. Trying to
get McCarthy to give up the identity of the man who helped him kill
the Scalvos, Spilotro first beat McCarthy, then stabbed him in the
testicles with an icepick, before finally shoving his head in a vise
and crunching it to five inches wide; McCarthy didn't give up the
name of his partner, Jimmy Miraglia, until Spilotro tightened the
vise in such a way that one of Billy's eyes popped out. Amazingly,
McCarthy survived the head-crushing long enough for Spilotro to kill
him by dousing him in lighter fluid and setting him ablaze. Spilotro
would remark later in life, "Billy McCarthy was the toughest guy I
ever met." (Jimmy Miraglia was subsequently shot dead and put in the
trunk of his own car along with Billy's corpse).
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