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Jun 15, 2019 - 12:23 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Other than her reappearance as realtor “Dolores” in Oliver Stone’s WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (2010), with one exception, Sylvia Miles’ remaining feature films were little known and little seen. HARD TIMES POTLUCK, a 2002 upbeat pot caper that centers around a mobster who discovers the magic of marijuana, had a limited theatrical run and won Miles a Best Supporting Actress Award at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.
Sylvia Miles made a name for herself both onscreen, with two Oscar nominations, and off. She became infamous for dumping a plate of steak tartare (as well as potato salad, pâté and Brie cheese) on the head of dyspeptic theater critic John Simon of New York magazine in The Ginger Man, a New York City restaurant, after he gave her a nasty, scathing review in a 1973 play and labelled her as “one of New York's leading party girls and gate-crashers”.
Miles was indeed a fixture on New York City's party scene. She took over colleague Andy Warhol's mantle (after his death) of appearing at seemingly every movie or gallery opening in Manhattan. Regarding this, Miles once remarked: “Let's set that ‘she'd-go-to-the-opening-of-an-envelope’ story to rest once and for all. Earl Wilson didn't say it. I said it about myself, and unfortunately, everything I say sounds like a press release. O.K., so I did once go to the opening of a delicatessen. I heard Jackie would be there, too. Turned out to be Jackie Mason.”
Farewell, Sylvia.
Andy Warhol and Sylvia Miles (1972)
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