I've been watching Smith on CBS lately.  It's a good show about a gang of theives with the proper mix of the heists they pull & what goes on in their personal lives.  It's got a good cast.  I've always liked Virginia Madsen.  Amy Smart is a hot dame.  Simon Baker kicked ass in Land of the Dead.  Johnny Lee Miller is there because every criminal gang needs a Brit.  But the most facinating cast member is the star, Ray Liotta.  That's mostly because of his face.

In the pilot episode, Ray Liotta looked normal.  He didn't look much differently than he did when Doctor Lecter was cooking up his brain.  But in the second episode of Smith something had changed.  It was as if during the time between shooting the pilot & filiming the second epiosde something went very wrong with Liotta's face.  It was swollen.  His cheeks were bulging abnormally.  His eyes were dark & sunken.  His skin looked waxy.  Perhaps he had a plastic surgery disaster, an alergic reaction to shellfish & a bee sting all at once.

I wanted to meet Ray Liotta.  I'd tell him I was a big fan of Goodfellas.  Then I'd strap him to a chair, put on a pair of rubber gloves & proceed to poke his face for about an hour.  I just want to know what would happen.  Would pus shoot out?  Perhaps caramel?  Poke-poke-poke.  Poke-poke-poke.  I'd engage him in conversation to make him feel comfortable.  You know, like they do at the dentist.

He may not enjoy that.  But, dammit, I have a curious mind.  Poke-poke-poke.

R

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