Tribute to Ray Liotta & Goodfellas
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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The loss of Ray Liotta at the age of 67 is a true tragedy and one can only imagine all the great performances he had to give. John and Steve pay tribute to this powerful actor and take you back to the earliest days of The Cine-Files with their conversation on Martin Scorcesse's Goodfellas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the CineFiles. We are recording this special short as we're |
| 0:13.4 | dropping this episode of Goodfellas in honor of the tragic passing. And I would say tragic |
| 0:19.5 | because of the timing of Ray Leota, the lead of Goodfellas, passed away 67 years old in |
| 0:26.6 | his sleep there in the Dominican Republic on the set of a movie. Steve, this one hit me pretty |
| 0:33.5 | hard and I actually told the lady outlaw about it last night and she was pretty shocked about it |
| 0:37.6 | as well. You know, we're getting up there 67 doesn't seem that far away anymore. So what were your |
| 0:42.8 | thoughts when you heard the news of Ray Leota passing? Well, that's the first thing. I mean, I think |
| 0:48.0 | as you grow older, you get to the point where, oh, I'm older than those tragic young deaths like |
| 0:52.8 | John Belushi or Jimmy Hendrix and then you get to like where you you see someone and they die, |
| 0:58.3 | you know, in 95, you're like, oh, that's that's so far away. This is not far away. No, we're getting |
| 1:04.3 | into the you died a little young and I feel like Ray Leota's a guy that I came up with, you know what I |
| 1:10.9 | mean? Yeah, absolutely. I mean through the 1980s with Field of Dreams, also a film we did on the |
| 1:16.6 | CineFiles and the Goodfellas really kind of launching him, but it got into some interesting films |
| 1:21.8 | like Copland and not and some of my favorite kind of quiet 1980s films like Dominic Eugene with |
| 1:27.5 | him and Thomas Holtz, which I thought was a fantastic film. Got any appeared in the Simpsons in the |
| 1:32.6 | Muppets. The guy had a wide range of things, something wild is this villain that does comedy, |
| 1:38.1 | does drama, does voice over work. He was a he had narrated an episode of 30 for 30 for ESPN. So |
| 1:43.8 | there he had such a wide expanse and I feel like in most recently in the many saints of Newark, |
| 1:49.0 | I feel like he was coming back into prominence in terms of people knowing him, |
| 1:53.6 | respecting him, appreciating him. He was starting to show up more in interviews and podcasts. |
| 1:58.6 | And he was working. He's got four projects that are in the hopper right now and and passed away |
| 2:02.9 | unfortunately. So just a I don't know, just a very tragic loss because he's a guy that has a lot |
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