Hook-up

Hook-up or hook up has several meanings:

Hooking Up

Hooking Up is a collection of essays and a novella by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines.

The essays cover diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving.

Contents

Hooking Up

The Human Beast

Vita Robusta, Ars Anorexica

Ambush at Fort Bragg: A Novella

Ray Liotta

Raymond Allen "Ray" Liotta (born December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Henry Hill in the crime-drama Goodfellas (1990) and Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989). He has won an Emmy Award and has been nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Something Wild in 1986, and had well known roles as lead or supporting roles in films like Unlawful Entry, Sin City, and Killing Them Softly.

Early life

Liotta was born in Newark, New Jersey and adopted at the age of six months by Mary, an appointed township clerk, and Alfred Liotta, an auto parts store owner, personnel director, and the president of a local Democratic club. His adoptive parents both unsuccessfully ran for local office. He has a sister, Linda Liotta, who is also adopted.

Liotta has said he knew he was adopted as a young child and did a show and tell report on it for kindergarten. Liotta located his biological mother in the 2000s. His adoptive parents were of Italian and Scottish ancestry, respectively. After research and talks with his biological mother, he learned he is part Scottish. He has one half brother, five half sisters, and a full sister.