Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TOWERING INFERNO...
Among disaster films, The Towering Inferno is the superepic. Based on not one but two bad novels, featuring four stars above the title instead of just one and having several scarcely less important figures (Jennifer Jones, Fred Astaire, O.J. Simpson) among the supporting players, it required an unprecedented combination of two major companies (Fox and Warner Bros.) to produce. Merely to turn out a single skyscraper they conspicuously consumed twice the amount that Universal spent to destroy all of Los Angeles in Earthquake. That near-crash of a 747 in Airport 75 is not even in the same league, fiscally...
...film, after the last flame has been doused, Paul Newman surveys the ruined hulk of his skyscraper. He suggests allowing it to stand as "a monument to all the bullshit" of our age. Probably The Towering Inferno should be placed on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian for the same reason...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice-president for administration, sees The Towering Inferno twice, and closes the top eight floors of Holyoke Center. Norman Mailer '43 awards himself the Nobel Prize for Literature. "I got tired of waiting," Mailer explains...
ERIC CLAPTON: 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD (RSO). Old Slowhand can still raise up a musical inferno, though now he leans more to swinging blues...