Grand Canyon

James Newton Howard is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for... cinema, and has scored over 100 films. The recipient of eight Academy Award nominations, some of Howard's best known film scores include The Prince of Tides , The Fugitive , Dinosaur , King Kong , I Am Legend , and, most recently Green Lantern and The Hunger Games . He is also known for his collaboration with director M. Night Shyamalan, having scored all his films since The Sixth Sense . Howard was born in Los Angeles, California. Twenty-five years after the death of his father, Howard learned that his father's family was Jewish . Throughout his career as a composer/musician/songwriter, he has scored films of all scales and genres, earning multiple award nominations for his work.
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Grand Canyon National Park is the United States' 15th oldest national park and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the Wonders of the World. The park covers 1,217,262 acres of unincorporated area in Coconino and... Mohave counties. Most visitors to the park come to the South Rim, arriving on Arizona State Route 64. The Highway enters the park through the South Entrance, near Tusayan, Arizona, and heads eastward, leaving the park through the East Entrance. All park accommodations are operated by the Xanterra corporation. Park headquarters are at Grand Canyon Village, a short distance from the South Entrance, being also the location of the most popular viewpoints. Some thirty miles of the South Rim are accessible by road. A much smaller venue for tourists is found on the North Rim, accessed by Arizona State Route 67. There is no road connection between the two within Arizona except via the Navajo Bridge, near Page, Arizona, entailing a five-hour drive. Otherwise, the two rims of the Canyon are connected via Boulder City, Nevada, and the Hoover Dam.
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