Denton Cooley 1960s. He and his colleagues worked on developing new artificial heart valves from 1962 to 1967; during that period, mortality for heart valve transplants fell from 70% to 8%. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart designed by Domingo Liotta in a man, Haskell Karp, who lived for 65 hours. The next year, in 1970, "he performed the first implantation of an artificial heart in a human when no heart replacement was immediately available." Cooley's interests included basketball, which he played in high school and as a three-year letterman for the UT men's basketball
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