Tag: The Towering Inferno
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Pierce Brosnan’s Best Role Was Emulating Steve McQueen
If there’s any film that explains why Steve McQueen was known as “the King of Cool,” it’s 1968’s The Thomas Crown Affair. While Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno are all classics in their own right, it’s the relative simplicity of McQueen’s slick demeanor in The Thomas Crown Affair…
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Al Kasha, Oscar-Winning Songwriter of ‘The Morning After,’ Dies at 83
Al Kasha, the songwriter who won Academy Awards in the 1970s for co-writing hit ballads for “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 83. No cause of death was immediately offered.As part of a songwriting team with Joel Hirschhorn, Kasha received two Tony nominations, four Golden Globe nods…
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Skyscraper review – Dwayne Johnson rocks in a highly enjoyable action film
A preposterous mashup of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno makes for a perfect summer blockbusterDwayne Johnson stars as the most badass amputee since Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road, in the movie mashup you never knew you wanted. Skyscraper is Die Hard meets The Towering Inferno, and it’s pretty much everything you could…