The Towering Inferno The Towering Inferno The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. The picture was directed by John Guillermin. A co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., it was the first film to be a joint venture by two major Hollywood studios. It was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, "The Tower" by Richard Martin Stern and "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. The film earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture
Kaddish (Towering Inferno album) underground event." Wolfson died in February 2005 at the age of 49 after work had begun on a second Towering Inferno album entitled "The Other Side". Wolfson's tombstone is engraved with a line from "Kaddish" by Szkárosi: "This sky will cover you when you fall down". "Mojo" magazine said "Kaddish" deploys a wide range of musical genres, and including minimalist ambient, metal, classical piano, string quartets and jazz, and called it "a sonic tapestry of thousands of years, lamenting what is lost in periods of great destruction." Brian Eno said "Kaddish" drew on a mix of influences "existing on the