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Heat (1972)
Sally: And you're NOT a lesbian.I mean, everybody has girlfriends.Men have friends, women have friends.That doesn't make you a lesbian.Do you sleep in the same room with her?Jessica: Sure. How else can I be a lesbian?Sally: Where does Mark sleep?Jessica: With us.Sally: In the same bed?Jessica: In the same bed.Sally: Is that a way to bring up a boy?He'll be a lesbian!
Today is the 100th anniversary of the one-of-a-kind Sylvia Miles! I just saw Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse at MoMA a few weeks ago and my god she walks away with that entire film in her two scenes. What a goddamned treasure she was. The movies lost one of its brightest and most shining stars when she passed in 2019. If you've got any tell me your favorite Sylvia Miles movie moments in the comments!
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While I'm tempting to say my favorite is her "demonic lesbians freak out the square" scene in The Sentinel, almost every moment of Evil Under the Sun is burned into my brain due to constant cable airings in the '80s. Even then, it's probably a tie between "If you were a man, I'd divorce you!" and the dialogue-free shot of her sneering while putting her cigarette out in a tomato...
I saw her on-stage in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA with Richard Chamberlin at the Circle in the Square a hundred years ago. She was perfectly awful.
I have always been impressed by the fact if you summon the screen time of her two Oscar nominated supporting turns you barely go over 10 minutes, that’s definitely a thing in years when the most acclaimed supporting perfs are often co-lead. Anyway back to the outstanding Miles, I couldn’t help but remembering as Meryl’s poisonously no-no brain mother in She Devil
I used to see her around the neighborhood, seemed pretty nice.
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