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Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. is an American music conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter.... During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold over 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”. In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African-Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award in the "Best Original Song" category. That same year, he became the first African-American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for "Best Original Score" for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971 Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African-American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D.
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Agua Dulce is an unincorporated community located in Los Angeles County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2526 feet . Agua Dulce is located just north of Santa Clarita. The town has a population of about 4,000. It is located at 34°29′47″N 118°19′32″W... / 34.49639°N 118.32556°W / 34.49639; -118.32556 and covers a geographic area of about 25 square miles . The ZIP code is 91390 and area code 661. Agua Dulce is located about 25 miles Southwest of Palmdale, 44 miles North of Los Angeles, in the Sierra Pelona Valley portion of Southern California. The town has a median household income of $78,000 . The average household size is 3.1. Agua Dulce is best known for Vasquez Rocks California State Park. Vasquez Rocks has been long used as a popular filming location by the Hollywood movie industry, most notably The Flintstones movie and the Star Trek episode "Arena." The 1971 movie "Duel" filmed extensively in the area. It got its name from the famous bandit Tiburcio Vasquez who used to run and hide there while being looked for.
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Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 905 acre northern Los Angeles County, California USA park acquired by LA County government in the 1970s. It is in the Agua Dulce vicinity between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles and seen easily by motorists driving the... Antelope Valley Freeway . Vasquez Rocks have been used innumerable times in motion pictures, various television series and in moving and still photography advertisements, and continue to be used in them today. The triangular rock summit can be clearly seen in, for example, an Outer Limits episode called "The Zanti Misfits", in "Arena", an original series Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk rolls a boulder onto an alien of reptiloid origin called a Gorn, and throughout a Bonanza episode called "Between Heaven and Earth". The creation of these rock formation are by the San Andreas Fault. In 1873 and 1874 Tiburcio Vásquez - one of California's most notorious bandits - used these rocks to elude capture by law enforcement. His name has since been associated with this geologic feature.
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