Remembering Ray Liotta’s 10 Best Performances
variety.comClayton Davis Intense and commanding, but passionate and endearing, Ray Liotta was one of the great character actors for the last four decades.
After the news broke of his death, a walk through his most memorable performances is not only warranted, but necessary to remind us of what we lost in the Hollywood community.My cinematic introduction to the talented Liotta was when I was about eight years old.
It was the summer of 1992, and my sister, who is nine years older than me, and I ventured out to the theater — Whitestone Cinemas in Bronx, N.Y., if I recall correctly, which had a tall billboard sign you could see from the Cross Bronx Expressway.
We purchased tickets to see “Unlawful Entry” (1992) from director Jonathan Kaplan. Marketed as a horror-type thriller, and coming from the person who helmed “The Accused” (1988), which won Jodie Foster her first Oscar for best actress, we were stoked to see a movie in which a cop becomes obsessed with a married couple (played by Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe) after an intruder breaks into their home in the middle of the night.My family had never been the type to “look up” if a movie was appropriate.
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