Sylvia Miles

Heat

Midnight Cowboy. She looked 94 in MC 50 years ago lol. A few good roles in her career but mostly schlock. Still managed to score two Oscar nominations. She should be a DL icon.

Must-read for any fan of delusional “movie stars.”

Heat.

She-Devil with Streep.

With Tennessee Williams.

Odell! Odell!

You were going to ask ME for money!

Sylvia Miles house tour!

"Oh Joe. It's just like a piece of semi-heaven!" I know it was Pat Ast who spoke the lines but one could imagine Sylvia uttering them as well. Actually Pat Ast's verbal cat fight with Sylvia Miles is just one of the many highlights of Heat.

The Funhouse.

Cheated out of a third Oscar nom!

In Evil Under the Sun, she delivered her lines like she was snapping angry bites of air. I loved the chemistry with James Mason, who played it dignified and erudite for maximum contrast.

Clips below include snippets with Nicholas Clay, whose ass in the film has DL legend status.

Didn't she confront Transylvanian-born and Harvard-educated theatre critic John Simon at a party over something very nasty he wrote about her in a review. She dumped a plate of pasta on his head and he called her "Excess baggage". Or something like that. It was a very long time ago. He hated fags with a passion and likened Liza to looking like a beagle and commented on Glenda Jackson's varicose veins too.

That looks like a sweet house in Woodstock. Never saw that Nelson Sullivan video. Thank god all his videos were preserved. I wonder why and when she sold it.

She is hell to serve in a restaurant. John Simon called her a gate crasher and when she saw him at a reception she broke a plate of food over his head, saying now you can call me a plate crasher too.

I like her. She seems like the type of personality that would be really popular in your neighborhood bar.

It's been ages since I've seen it, but I believe she was Sally in the pilot for The Dick Van Dyke show, but lost the part to Rose Marie.

7 replies before an “Odell!”

In the 80s and 90s, I always knew to follow her at parties, because she knew where the free booze was.

ODELL!

Does she still go out? How is she?

My roommate in college remarked that she could play a whore with empathy.

Someone who worked with her in the early NYC theater days told me she was the most fragile actress he'd worked with.

Is she a lifelong alkie?

She's really fun in "Midnight Cowboy," but the nomination should have gone to Brenda Vaccaro for that movie.

Sylvia shot have been nominated for her performance in Heat. Fuck, she went through a gauntlet of emotions in that one.

Nobody has mentioned Crossing Delancey (1988) where she was wonderful in a supporting role to Amy Irving and played a character unlike anything she had done before. She deserved an Oscar nomination for that as well.

No other fans of The Sentinel?

I need to see it again. I thought it was fantastic years ago.

No one remembers her as Charlie Sheen's realtor in Wall Street?

^ They brought her back for the sequel!

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I haven't seen that movie, but you should check out "Violent Midnight", her third movie. It's a little indie flick filmed in CT in 1963.

Basking on the red carpet for the opening of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

She's no Brendad Ickson.

The Sentinel!

Joe.

Meant to post this one for the vpl on Joe.

You have to click for full image.

I'm another fan of her in She Devil. The movie is a classic! I've attached a clip and you can see her at around 1:49. Enjoy!

How the fuck does She-Devil only have a 5.5/10 on IMDB? People are nuts.

Sylvia & Pat

How can a son be a lesbian?

Everyone is just so perfect in Heat. That movie deserves more respect.

Who did the wardrobe for Evil Under the Sun?

Anthony Powell IIRC.

I always dreamed of a movie spin off/tv series with Myra and Odell traveling the world and being uber cunts to the staff at fancy hotels in the 30s and 40s until the last episode where they are shot for being Nazi spies.

Maybe we could meet her cousin, Hattie Heimenheimer!

^ Only on DL would a Sylvia Miles reference go this deep.u

Anthony Powell merits his own thread.

We all owe him a debt of gratitude for Nicholas Clay’s black swimsuit.

This interview is fantastic.

Anthony Powell's opening night gift to Miss Patti was a wall clock with a costume sketch at each hour. It was one of numerous items she sold on her eBay yard sale over 15 years ago.

Funny interview with such an eccentric and egotistical star. She throws shade explicitly at Rose Marie and implicitly at Ava Gardner (the realtor in The Sentinel.)

Thoroughly unpleasant woman- clearly tough as nails and a survivor- with a certain amount of talent to make a good character actor. I’ve met her and been around her at a few parties. Awful.

Sylvia arrives to a boutique opening and says right to the owner's face, "If I'd have known it was a men's clothing store I wouldn't have come." She then proceeds to eat some of the free food and then peaces out. I love this woman! She makes her grand entrance at the 3:00 mark:

She a very entertaining actress.

I have a feeling she must not be doing that well these days because it doesn't seem like she's been seen out in public in a few years. She apparently 94 now (but has claimed to be a up to a decade younger) so it's understandable.

Lucky Sylvia!

R47 Nicholas Clay in Evil Under the Sun. Simon MacCorkindale in Death on the Nile. Both two of the most handsome men to ever grace the screen and both gone way too soon. The young actors around today are a bland looking lot compared to Nicholas & Simon in their heyday.

Jesus, Joe Dallesandro was so gorgeous. He had the most perfect ass I've ever seen. Nicholas Clay, too.

However, r55, he never gave it away.

R55 I assume you me Nicholas Clay, because there is a shot porno floating around of Joe taking it. It actually appears as a film within a film in some Jack Wrangler DVD - I can't recall the name. It was back in the 1980's when I saw it on VHS. The footage of Joe getting fucked is in black & white as is being played in the background of a scene.

Just want to add that the footage of Joe being fucked would have been filmed in the late 60's or early 70's at the latest.

The fact that Joe did even one gay porn film is proof that there is a god. I wish it was less grainy and better shot, but hey, what ya gonna do?

If there is a God, he'd have made Joe taller.

He wasn’t beautiful and sexy and exactly in the right space at the right time.

Link to the aforementioned JD porn?

Link:

He had to have plenty of experience to take a dick as big as that top’s.

He was paid for that.....

If you look at her, if she had cut her hair, gone to Arden's and worn "smart" clothes, she had great features and would have been a beautiful older woman. That might have opened up a whole range of character parts. Not to be though.

R66 You have a point. She always looked old, but didn't really age much since the 60s. A shorter hairstyle and better clothes would made her look better.

It's too bad she didn't get more roles in the last few decades, she was always entertaining.

Met her a couple times at parties in an around NYC. She was not nice- my impression was she was a kick down kiss up type. If you were famous or could obviously do something for her, she was interested in you- otherwise brush off or rude. I've met a number of famous people- more famous than her- exactly like that. Also many who are as nice as can be. Sylvia was not one of those. She sure was a character though- balls. Women can have balls. And not without talent.

Loved her as Carrie Bradshaw’s Ghost of Christmas Future.