Vincent Gardenia and Jake LaMotta (theRaging Bullboxer) appear in bit cameo roles as bartenders.Plot SynopsisBefore the credits, the film opens with existential anti-hero "Fast" Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) and his elderly manager Charlie Burns (Myron McCormick) entering a local pool hall - the Homestead Bar and Grill, located two or three hours drive from Pittsburgh.] Crowds roasted a huge pig and gorged themselves on the meat, as others frolicked, played instruments, caroused, drank and danced in the street.In the unnerving, climactic conclusion, Sister Ruth renounced her nunhood vows of celibacy with two symbolic statements: she adorned herself in a forbidden scarlet dress, and sensuously applied matching lipstick.Then God in His wrath sent the world a savior, miraculously born of two apes, who descended on Earth from Earth""s own future.Ox kind of helped my mom raise me").Six months earlier, Mutt""s mother had received a letter from Oxley in Peru, where he was working and had found some type of "crystal skull.