Sylvia Miles, once dubbed “Manhattan’s No. 1 partygoer,” died on Wednesday at the age of 94. Read MatthewSchneier's remembrance
Miles and Joe Dallesandro at the premiere of “Heat,” 1972. Photo: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty “Sylvia Miles Doesn’t Attend Every Party,” ran the New York Times headline in 1976, “She Just Seems To.
She bristled at suggestions she was a gate-crasher — she once dumped a plate of food over the head of critic John Simon for saying as much in print, and corrected for the record its contents when asked — and assumed all the grandeur of acclaim even when its substance eluded her. Asked why she was attending the Everything Is Everything Ball in 1971, she told the New Yorker, “I came because, as a celebrity, I was invited.
After it, she spent years searching for the perfect role to shore up her stardom, and went out in search of them. “Sylvia was not shy about her ambition,” Colacello said in an interview. “But she was so funny and so fun. By going out so much and so indiscriminately, she worked against herself. But in a sense, Andy saw going out as work, too.”
Heat was a big-budget production for a Warhol film, and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. There on the French Riviera, Dallesandro wound up locked out of his room and had to stay with Miles, leading Warhol to assume they were having a real-life affair. “He made it into a big thing,” Dallesandro in an interview, chuckling.
She created a one-woman show about her life, It’s Me, Sylvia!, with music by the Hair composer Galt MacDermot and a set by Eugene Lee that re-created her cluttered Central Park South apartment. But the show was a fiasco, closing after fewer than ten performances. Its review in the Times was a near masterpiece of mercilessness — “Miss Miles can carry a tune — from stage right to stage left.
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