Sooner or Later (Madonna song) the Sondheim songs. "I want people to think of me as a musical comedy actress. That's what this album is about for me. It's a stretch. Not just pop music, but songs that have a different feel to them, a theatrical feel", she said at the time. According to Rikky Rooksby, author of "The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna", the harmonic and melodic styles of the songs she developed with Sondheim were more "complex" than her usual recordings, hence Madonna found it difficult and demanding. She spoke about the "wilderness" of the tunes, saying that she was not
Holly Hunter David Cronenberg's "Crash" and as a sardonic angel in "A Life Less Ordinary". The following year, she played a recently divorced New Yorker in Richard LaGravenese's "Living Out Loud"; starring alongside Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, and Martin Donovan. Hunter rounded out the 1990s with a minor role in the independent drama "Jesus' Son" and as a housekeeper torn between a grieving widower and his son in Kiefer Sutherland's drama "Woman Wanted". Following a supporting role in the Coens' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", Hunter took top billing in the same year's television movie "Harlan County War", an account of labor