A lead actor with piercing blue eyes, pockmarked skin, and a wicked laugh, who gives the overall impression of a 1950s doo-wop singer crossed with a psychopath, Ray Liotta began his career on the NBC daytime soap "Another World" and demonstrated his versatility playing such roles as a violent ex-convict ("Something Wild" 1986), a medical student caring for his brain-damaged brother ("Dominick and Eugene" 1988) and back-from-the-dead baseball great 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson ("Field of Dreams" 1989). In Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild,” Liotta switched genres as radically as the film does,