Oscar-nominated 'Midnight Cowboy' actress Sylvia Miles dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sylvia Miles, whose brief appearances in the films "Midnight Cowboy" and "Farewell, My Lovely" earned her two Academy Award nominations, has died.

Friend Mauricio Padilha says Miles died Wednesday in an ambulance in New York. The cause is not yet clear. Accounts of her age vary ...