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 starring opposite Jennifer Lopez in "Shades of Blue". He doesn’t smoke anymore Liotta married actress Michelle Grace in February 1997 after they met at her former husband Mark Grace's professional baseball game. Together they co-starred in "The Rat Pack", in which Liotta played Frank Sinatra and Grace played Judith Campbell Exner. They have a daughter, Karsen Liotta, born in 1998. The couple divorced in 2004. From his experience shooting the Western "Texas Rising," Liotta says he has continued horseback riding. He said, "I was obsessed with riding horses [on the show]. I love it now. I've never had a hobby.