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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 14 June 2019

Oscar-nominated ‘Midnight Cowboy’ actress Sylvia Miles dies

By ANDREW DALTON Studio, making her name
Associated Press in a series of Off-Broadway
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Syl- roles starting in the 1950s,
via Miles, an actress and and moving on to movies
Manhattan socialite whose in the 1960s.
brief, scene-stealing ap- Her film credits included
pearances in the films “Mid- 1972’s Andy Warhol-pro-
night Cowboy” and “Fare- duced “Heat,” 1987’s “Wall
well, My Lovely” earned her Street” and its 2010 sequel
two Academy Award nom- “Wall Street: Money Never
inations, died Wednesday. Sleeps,” and 1988’s “Cross-
Miles died in an ambulance ing Delancey.”
in New York on the way to Her TV roles included guest
a hospital after complain- appearances on “Miami
ing to a home health care Vice,” ‘’One Life to Live”
worker that she wasn’t feel- and “Sex in the City.”
ing well, her friend, fashion- Miles was a competitive
industry publicist Mauricio chess player, according to
Padilha, told The Associ- the New York Times, which
ated Press. The cause is not twice featured her in its
yet clear. coverage of the game.
Accounts of Miles’ age And she went, it seems, to
vary widely. Padilha and nearly every party in New
other sources say she was York for a time, becoming
94. Past reporting from the as beloved for her outgo-
AP puts her age at 86. ing personality and flam-
Miles was a veteran actress boyant fashion sense than
but not a widely known In this Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007, file photo, Sylvia Miles arrives for the 2006 New York Film Critic’s Circle as for her acting.
name when she appeared Awards at the Supper Club in New York. “She shows up at premieres,
onscreen for about six Associated Press screenings, receptions,
minutes in 1969’s “Mid- acter, Cass, says as she Philip Marlowe, her screen “She was pretty much the teas and charity cocktail
night Cowboy.” In her sole breaks into increasingly time is only slightly longer as same person off screen as parties,” said a 1976 article
scene, she plays a brassy angry mock-tears. “Who a down-on-her-luck enter- she was on screen,” Padil- in People magazine titled,
Manhattan woman who in- the hell do you think you’re tainer who swaps informa- ha said. “She was quite a “What would a Manhattan
vites an aspiring male pros- dealing with? ... In case you tion for a bottle of booze. character.” party be without the ubiq-
titute from Texas, played by didn’t happen to notice it, The fleetingly brief roles Miles was born in, and be- uitous Sylvia Miles?”
Jon Voight, up to her pent- you big Texas longhorn bull, both got her Oscar nomi- came a lifelong resident “I get invited because I’m
house for sex, but ends up I’m one hell of a gorgeous nations. of, Manhattan, where she fun,” Miles told People at
taking money from him in- chick!” Her appearances in real was married and divorced the time. “I have a good
stead. In 1975’s “Farewell, My life were just as memorable three times and had no sense of humor. I look
“You were going to ask me Lovely,” which starred Rob- for those who came across children. good. I’m not bad to have
for money?” Miles’ char- ert Mitchum as detective her. She studied at The Actors at a party.”q

John Legend on abortion law boycotts: ‘Money talks’

By AMANDA LEE MYERS tectable fetal heartbeat, woman “is just unconscio-
Associated Press as early as the sixth week nable to me. “There’s no
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John of pregnancy. Missouri’s way we can have equality
Legend says Hollywood governor signed a bill last in any other realm if wom-
should consider boycot- month approving an eight- en don’t have the ability to
ting Georgia, Louisiana, week ban on abortion, with make these kinds of deci-
Alabama and other states exceptions only for medi- sions on their own without
that pass restrictive abor- cal emergencies. Alabama the state getting involved,”
tion laws. has gone even further, out- Legend said in an interview
Legend admits he’s not lawing virtually all abor- Monday while promoting a
sure if a boycott would be tions, even in cases of rape Pampers campaign to in-
successful, but says “it’s a or incest. None of the bans stall more baby-changing
conversation that needs to have taken effect, and all tables in men’s restrooms.
be had. are expected to face legal “It’s a grassroots thing
“Particularly when these challenges. where people let their politi-
studios are hiring people Netflix and other major Hol- cians know what they think
and bringing people to the In this March 14, 2019, file photo, John Legend performs “Preach” lywood studios have said about these laws and what
state and saying, ‘Come at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los they’re reevaluating film- they think about the idea
work with us here in this Angeles. ing in Georgia if its abortion of women having freedom
state,’ but if you get preg- Associated Press law goes into effect. to make decisions about
nant there you’re going pressure that the studios are but I know that money Legend, who has two chil- their bodies and when they
to be treated like a sec- putting on will help Georgia talks.” dren with wife and model want to have kids,” he said.
ond-class citizen,” he said. and other states see the er- Louisiana, Georgia, Ken- Chrissy Teigen, said the “The bottom line is we need
“That’s a tough conversa- ror of their ways.” tucky, Mississippi and Ohio idea that any state would to respect women and let
tion to have with your staff. He added: “I don’t know have enacted bills barring get involved in making a women make their own
And so I think hopefully the that it will definitely work, abortion once there’s a de- reproductive decision for a decisions.”q