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Towering Inferno (other)
Towering Inferno may refer to: * ''The Towering Inferno'', 1974 disaster movie * Towering Inferno (band) Towering Inferno was an English experimental music duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, notable for their sole album ''Kaddish'', which reflected on The Holocaust. ''Kaddish'' was released on their own TI Records in 1993, and then globally ..., an English experimental music group which released the 1993 album ''Kaddish'' * ''Towering Inferno'' (video game), for the Atari 2600 See also * List of fires in high-rise buildings {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Towering Inferno
''The Towering Inferno'' is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. It was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels '' The Tower'' (1973) by Richard Martin Stern and ''The Glass Inferno'' (1974) by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. The film earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was the highest-grossing film of 1974. The picture was nominated for eight Oscars in all, winning three. In addition to McQueen and Newman, the cast includes William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Gregory Sierra, Dabney Coleman, and Jennifer Jones in her final role. Plot Architect Doug Roberts returns to San Francisco for the dedication of the Glass Tower, which he designed for developer James Duncan. The tower, tall and 138 stories, is the world's talles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towering Inferno (band)
Towering Inferno was an English experimental music duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, notable for their sole album ''Kaddish'', which reflected on The Holocaust. ''Kaddish'' was released on their own TI Records in 1993, and then globally by Island Records in 1995. Wolfson and Saunders composed the music, and Hungarian performance poet Endre Szkárosi contributed the lyrics. Towering Inferno performed ''Kaddish'' in a number of cities between 1994 and 1999, including Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Moscow and Melbourne. A London performance of the work in 1995 was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. ''The Daily Telegraph'' said that Towering Inferno was "one of the most original and provocative performance-art bands of the 1990s", and described ''Kaddish'' as "a shocking and unforgettable piece". In 1997, they contributed a cover of "Metal" to the Gary Numan tribute album ''Random''. Wolfson died in February 2005, but Saunders, with Chris Cutler, Jah Wobble, Bob Drake, Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towering Inferno (video Game)
''Towering Inferno'' is an Atari 2600 game designed by Jeff Corsiglia and programmed by Paul Allen Newell and released by US Games in 1982. The player controls a fireman going through a burning skyscraper to save victims and put out the fires. The game was produced under a licence obtained from 20th Century Fox by Quaker Oats, the parent company of US Games, for the video game rights to the movie of the same name. Newell also programmed '' Entombed'' for the 2600 and the Vectrex port of ''Scramble''. Gameplay On each floor of the building, the player must put out the flames and reach the panel that opens the doors to get back out. While doing so, there is a meter at the top showing how many people are on that floor. The longer it takes a player to open the doors and get out, the more the meter decreases. The object is to work as fast as you can while avoiding and putting out flames to open the doors and escape with the most people remaining on the meter. The game can be played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |