Ray Liotta Part Two

Mar 5, 1999 - © Susan Duckett

remote village in Vietnam during the war. Ray played Capt. T.C. Doyle, the gung-ho Green Beret frustrated with getting a mission he considers beneath him. Dennis Leary and Danny Glover co-starred. The film was a disappointment at the box office.

He returned to playing psychos in his next film Turbulence as Ryan Weaver, serial killer and very bad passenger. He is a prisoner being transferred to on a plane on Christmas Eve. The prisoners get loose, take over the plane and much carnage ensues.

1997's Copland gave him the opportunity to work with his idol Robert De Niro again. Though the two didn't have many scenes together it was a good experience. De Niro, who was distant while filming Goodfellas, was more open to Liotta this time, even introducing his new twin boys to him on the set.

Pheonix was his next role. He played Harry, a cop with a gambling problem who gets in way over his head in debt.

He went back to HBO to do another project, this time playing Frank Sinatra in a made for cable movie called The Rat Pack about Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and the rest of a group of friends referred to as the Rat Pack. "I wasn't sure I wanted to do it. How do you play an icon - a guy who hangs out with presidents, who makes love with Ava Gardner and who goes sailing with JFK? He himself was quoted saying he was an 18-carat manic-depressive, which means you've got lots of emotional roller coasters to play. So I said, "I'm just gonna have fun and act."

The Sinatra family was not pleased with the film. Tina Sinatra (his daughter) sent Ray a plastic horses head as a joke. He was freaked out at first but she called later and asked him to autograph it and send it back. Apparently it is a tradition of hers to send it to people she has a beef with. The whole incident gave the film a lot of free publicity.

One bonus was that during filming he finally achieved his longtime career ambition of doing a movie where "The girl kisses me voluntarily."

On the personal front he married his longtime girlfriend Michelle Johnson Grace in Thailand. They are expecting their first child.

His upcoming projects include Forever Mine and a cameo as a security guard Muppets From Space.

RAY TRIVIA

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