The dance smash was inspired by “The Towering Inferno” and later caught fire thanks to another film: “Saturday Night Fever.” The Trammps’ classic “Disco Inferno” — about a red-hot dance party atop a 100-story-high building — was inspired, appropriately, by the disaster film The Towering Inferno. In the Academy Award-winning drama, while revelers are dancing atop a luxurious skyscraper, a fire breaks out in the building… read more >

Harry R. Truman still believed in love as Mount St. Helens eruption loomed
The room lurched again. Harry R. Truman held onto the chair and rolled with it. His spiked Coke jumped in its glass. “That’s a five!”