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‘Goodfellas’ Star Ray Liotta Dies at 67
Yahoo! ^ | 5/26/2022 | By Mike Fleming Jr

Posted on 05/26/2022 9:24:05 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

A shocker. Ray Liotta, the terrific actor whose career breakout came in the Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas, has died. Deadline hears he died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was shooting the film Dangerous Waters. We will have more details when they become available.

Liotta was 67 years old and leaves behind a daughter, Karsen. He was engaged to be married to Jacy Nittolo.

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To: NohSpinZone

And there was nothing they could do about it.

RIP, Ray.


21 posted on 05/26/2022 9:32:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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22 posted on 05/26/2022 9:32:43 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: NohSpinZone

Damn

Something Wild


23 posted on 05/26/2022 9:34:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: NohSpinZone

“Yes he was though I’d argue DB Sweeney was much better as Joe in Eight Men Out vs. Ray in Field of Dreams. At least DB batted lefty.”

I agree. DB Sweeney nailed that role.


24 posted on 05/26/2022 9:34:14 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: dfwgator

Funny how?

RIP


25 posted on 05/26/2022 9:34:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: NohSpinZone

Like Christopher Walken

Always fun to watch him bush hog the scenery


26 posted on 05/26/2022 9:35:20 AM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: greenishness
I saw the director's version of that DVD, and I was impressed that Ray Liotta was totally frank about his performance.

The commentary went to great lengths to describe the trouble they had trying to get the right-handed Liotta to play the role of the left-handed Joe Jackson. They finally gave up on it and filmed the movie with Joe Jackson as a righty.

He said if he could go back and do his career over again, he would have trained himself relentlessly to play a left-handed hitter in that movie. He always considered it a poor reflection on the work of a professional actor that he couldn't do that when it really mattered.

27 posted on 05/26/2022 9:36:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: NohSpinZone

28 posted on 05/26/2022 9:36:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Gary Cooper had the same issue trying to play Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees. The filmmakers simply reversed the image with a lot of close ups while Cooper was batting.


29 posted on 05/26/2022 9:38:20 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

Oh no! He also had a great guest star role on ER.” Sad to hear this.


30 posted on 05/26/2022 9:38:26 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BuckeyeGOP

I love the way Scorsese slips his mom into his flics. And yes, a great movie, due in no small part to almost perfect casting, including of course Liotta.


31 posted on 05/26/2022 9:39:43 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Magnum44

“None of could stand the son of a bitch when he was alive, so we told him to stick it.”


32 posted on 05/26/2022 9:40:11 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: wardaddy
Something Wild

That was a fun one. Everyone was cast perfectly. R.I.P. Ray Liotta

33 posted on 05/26/2022 9:46:16 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: BuckeyeGOP

I agree - Good Fellas is an absolutely great movie.


34 posted on 05/26/2022 9:53:34 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Or a Spider-Man villain.


35 posted on 05/26/2022 10:03:38 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: NohSpinZone

My money is on “fully vaccinated.”


36 posted on 05/26/2022 10:05:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Affirmative action is systemic/institutional racism/sexism targeting straight, white males.)
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To: adorno

Same.

RIP.


37 posted on 05/26/2022 10:07:23 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: BuckeyeGOP

“I can tell you first hand, as a full-bred Italian from the northeast.... scorsese nailed every detail.”

Italians are immoral sub-human murderers?


38 posted on 05/26/2022 10:09:15 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: NohSpinZone

Union NJ guy, he dated my friends sister before Good Fellas, would pre game with him before Happy Hour in the summer at the shore, great guy, RIP


39 posted on 05/26/2022 10:41:33 AM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: NohSpinZone

“The Ray Liotta Laugh”

Best Ray Liotta laugh clip montage, 36 seconds.

I DEFY anybody to watch it and keep a straight face.

R.I.P. Ray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJ8x6lyrfo&ab_channel=EddLeigh


40 posted on 05/26/2022 10:50:51 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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