Artificial heart was named after its manager. Graduate student Robert Jarvik was the project manager for the artificial heart, which was subsequently renamed the Jarvik 7. In 1981, William DeVries submitted a request to the FDA for permission to implant the Jarvik 7 into a human being. On December 2, 1982, Kolff implanted the Jarvik 7 artificial heart into Barney Clark, a dentist from Seattle who was suffering from severe congestive heart failure. Clark lived for 112 days tethered to an external pneumatic compressor, a device weighing some , but during that time he suffered prolonged periods of confusion and a number
Ray Liotta played Detective Harrison in the 2009 Jody Hill comedy "Observe and Report" as Seth Rogen's nemesis from the local police. In 2011, he starred in "The Son of No One", opposite Channing Tatum, and for the first time in his career, Al Pacino. In 2004, Liotta made his Broadway debut opposite Frank Langella in the Stephen Belber play, "Match". In the 2010s, Liotta appeared in "Date Night", with Steve Carell, "Charlie St. Cloud" with Zac Efron, the independent drama "Snowmen", and "The River Sorrow", which stars Liotta as a detective alongside Christian Slater and Ving Rhames. He starred alongside Brad