![]() True to form, Sondheim didn’t attend the ceremony. The composer wrote several catchy songs for the movie, and this time won an Oscar for the melancholy number “ Sooner or Later,” performed on screen by Madonna. “Dick Tracy” (1990): Sondheim teamed up with Beatty again for this boldly stylistic adaptation of the Chester Gould comic strip. (The score, mostly written by Dave Grusin, wasn’t among the movie’s 12 Oscar nominations.) Sondheim’s contribution to the movie was its love theme, “Goodbye for Now.” “Reds” (1981): Sondheim worked on the score for Warren Beatty’s romantic epic about journalists Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, but the songwriter ended up leaving the project early. Both the movie and the Broadway stage production were directed by Hal Prince. ![]() “A Little Night Music” (1977): Elizabeth Taylor performed Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” in this poorly received big-screen adaptation of the songwriter’s hit musical. “Stavisky.” (1974): French filmmaker Alain Resnais was such a fan of Sondheim’s work that he hired the songwriter to compose the original score to this movie based on the real-life financial scandal involving Alexandre Stavisky. The songwriter collaborated on the script with Perkins, who was a friend. “The Last of Sheila” (1973): Sondheim made a rare foray into screenwriting with this idiosyncratic project about a murder-mystery-style game taking place in the south of France.
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