Ray Liotta Busted After Pissed-Up Car Crash

Actors often retain aspects of the characters they play. For instance, Forest Whitaker still talks like a Ugandan after starring in The Last King Of Scotland and Ray Liotta still drives like a goon after doing one of the voices in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Ray Liotta - star of Goodfellas and a million other bad films that made you think "What's Ray Liotta doing is this pile of garbage?" - has been arrested and charged for driving under the influence, after he barrelled his car into two parked cars on Saturday night. It's no coincidence that Ray Liotta is soon to star in a Disney comedy about motorbikes with John Travolta and Tim Allen - there's a strong chance that the crash was a deliberate attempt to take his own life before anyone got to actually see it. John Candy tried a similar thing before Wagons East, you know.

An old Hollywood agent once told us "You're nothing in this town until you've seen your name in lights and had an embarrassing drunken car crash that makes you look like a dickhead in front of the whole world." In that respect, Ray Liotta might just have made it into the big-time. He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving on Saturday night, as Reuters reports:

Liotta, 52, was detained after his sport utility vehicle struck two parked cars near his home in the upscale coastal suburb of Pacific Palisades on Saturday evening, said Los Angeles Police Dept. spokesman Mike Lopez. After being booked on the misdemeanor charge, he posted bail, Lopez said.

That's it? Ray Liotta just got drunk and hit a couple of parked cars? Come on now, if Ray Liotta wants to be a respected drunken idiot, he needs to up his game. When Daniel Baldwin did the same thing last year, the parked car leapt 20 feet into the air. And that's just a parked car - Ray Liotta needs to learn that any old loser can hit a parked car after a couple of drinks. Next time Ray Liotta feels like getting arrested on suspicion of DUI he should be more inventive and flip his car over a mailbox or take some painkillers and drive backwards up a motorway.

Ray Liotta won't go to court for his drink-drive car crash incident until next month, which gives him plenty of time to think about what he's done. Incidentally, the maximum penalty for a charge like this is either six months in jail or starring in another terrible Guy Ritchie movie. Let's hope the judge is lenient and just throws Ray in prison.

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Actor Ray Liotta Arrested After Car Crash In LA - Reuters