Monday

In yesterday's guardian there was an article about Ray Liotta. In the interview he expressed his annoyance as always being cast as the bad guy, and he said how he always felt like an outsider and didn't fit in with the other Hollywood stars (for instance, in his most recent film Wild Hogs). He has only, really, done one role that people remember him for, in Goodfellas. And it's strange that he's not, ostensibly, a bad guy in that movie, although he is bad. It is a puzzle as to why he hasn't had more success. He didn't make his first film until he was 30. And after Goodfellas he was very selective with what projects to do, something he regrets now. Cop Land I remember he was good in, but otherwise what else? Recently he has been in the television show Smith, which I've been enjoying, but there were only 5 episodes made before it was cancelled. He is an amazing actor, or so it seems to me. What does it take for a guy to get a break? He insightfully says that it doesn't matter how well he performs, the movie as a whole has to do well, otherwise his performance is ignored. An actor, it appears, has to be a director, an editor, and a writer as well, or at least understand how good they are before he starts a project.