Early in the 1972 movie The Poseidon Adventure, two crew members on the cruise ship Poseidon are working as the band aboard rehearses a hopeful pop ballad. One, a grizzled veteran, clearly isn’t ...
Here's something I didn't know before I started writing this column: America has a deep yearning for big, sweeping orchestral lost-love ballads from the soundtracks of big-budget movies about sinking ...
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 ...