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SOMETHING WILD (REMEMBERING RAY LIOTTA)

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  When Ray Liotta's mentioned, the chances are that the first film that comes to mind is his electric lead performance in 'GoodFellas'. Bizarrely, Liotta never received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his charismatic turn as the Mafia hood Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's classic gangster film - even though he more than held his own alongside Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci. But then again, he didn't land a BAFTA or a Golden Globe nomination either. In many ways that summed up Liotta's career. While he certainly had more than his fair share of box office and critical duds during his career, he was also an inveterate scene stealer in his strongest films whose greatest performances didn't get the accolades they deserved. Take one look at his glorious screen career which included Jonathan Demme's 'Something Wild,' Phil Alden Robinson's 'Field of Dreams,' James Mangold's 'Copland' and Simon J Smith and Steve Hickner's animat