Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg joined the chorus of luminaries paying tribute to Stephen Sondheim, calling him 'a gigantic figure in American culture' after the Broadway legend died just weeks before Spielberg's film version of Sondheim's classic West Side Story is released.Spielberg had nothing but high praise for the famed American composer and lyricist, who passed away 'suddenly' at his Roxbury, Conn., home on Friday at 91 years old, according to Sondheim's lawyer F.
Richard Pappas,The New York Times reported.Spielberg told ABC News that Sondheim was 'a gigantic figure in American culture - one of our country's greatest songwriters, a lyricist and composer of real genius, and a creator of some of the most glorious musical dramas.
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