Word: torello
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Crime Story is the most realistic TV cop show in years, yet the emotions reach almost baroque heights. Looking over the scene of a partner's murder, Torello thrusts his fist through a phone-booth window and sinks into tears. A fatally injured young hood, restrained by a respirator, flails about on his hospital bed in panic and rage. The pilot has enough violence to ignite a season's worth of protests. Yet nothing seems exploitative. In a bravura opening, a wild chase ends with a shoot-out at the house of an anonymous family. After the carnage is over...
Among the Chicago Mob's rising stars is James ("Turk") Torello, 46, a native of Cicero, Al Capone's old base. According to the FBI, Torello did so well as an executioner for Giancana that he was given several West Side bookmaking rings in the early 1960s. Moving swiftly into other neighborhoods, Torello now supervises all of the Outfit's gambling operations. He lives modestly in Cicero with his wife "Doodles...
...Torello revels in the sadistic side of his work. An FBI wiretap once recorded him plotting in Miami to murder a Chicago union boss by taking him out to sea in a powerboat, slitting his throat, chopping up his body and feeding the pieces to the sharks. The FBI intervened. Another FBI wiretap overheard Torello telling how he had hung William Jackson, a 350-lb. loan shark, on a meat hook and tortured him with an electric prod. "He was on that thing three days before he croaked," Torello said excitedly. "He was floppin' around...
...James Torello: Jackson was hung up on that meat hook. He was so heavy he bent it. He was on that thing three days before he croaked...
...Torello (excitedly): He was floppin' around on that hook, Jackie! We tossed water on him to give the prod a better charge, and he's screamin...