” this Wednesday, June 15. It’s a fitting choice, as I can still remember exactly where I was sitting in the Brattle balcony when I saw “Something Wild” for the first time in high school, on the back half of a double bill with David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart.” My friends and I were all already Liotta fans from “Goodfellas,” but not even his sterling work in the Scorsese film prepared us for the electricity of his Ray Sinclair in Demme’s traumatic screwball farce.
Magnetic but not conventionally handsome, Liotta’s beady eyes and rough skin made him a tough sell as a Hollywood leading man. Studio executives famously wanted Tom Cruise and Madonna instead of Liotta and Lorraine Bracco in “,” a film that’s frankly impossible to imagine without the actor’s sly, sardonic narration confiding in us like we’re having a beer and watching a ballgame with an old pal. His Henry Hill is a violent, amoral dirtbag and we can’t help but enjoy spending time with him.
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