Robert Jarvik animal in the lab for 10 days. Kolff assigned Jarvik to design a new heart that would overcome the problems of the Kwan-Gett heart, eventually culminating with the Jarvik-7 device. In 1982, the team carried out an artificial heart implant - the second ever, 13 years after Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley's first in 1969. William DeVries first implanted the Jarvik-7 into retired dentist Barney Clark at the University of Utah on December 2, 1982. Clark required frequent visits to the hospital for the next 112 days, after which he died. During frequent press conferences to update the patient's condition,
Ray Liotta In 1998, he received critical praise for his performance in "Phoenix" playing a compulsive gambler. In addition to his film roles, Liotta portrayed singer Frank Sinatra in the 1998 TV movie "The Rat Pack" (for which he received a Screen Actors Guild award nomination), provided the voice of Tommy Vercetti for the 2002 video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City", and appeared in the television drama "ER" in 2004, playing Charlie Metcalf in the episode "Time of Death". The "ER" role earned Liotta an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Liotta later spoofed himself and his Emmy