Water for Elephants

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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Fillmore is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 15,002 at the 2010 census, up from 13,643 at the 2000 census. Fillmore was founded in 1888 by Jerome A. Fillmore, General Superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad. On August 1, 1888, a street map of the town... of Fillmore was recorded in the Ventura County Courthouse. By 1900 Fillmore had a population of 150. The first schoolhouse was built in 1874. It was 20 by 30 feet with three windows on each side. The first graduating class of Fillmore High School was in 1910 with four students. 1889 saw the first commercial orange grove planted in Fillmore. During the “orange rush” of 1897, the Fillmore Citrus Fruit Association was formed and would eventually become Sunkist Growers. Fillmore’s first orange packing house was built at the corner of Sespe Avenue and A Street, on property purchased for $50 . Fillmore still has a small-town atmosphere which is becoming increasingly rare in suburbanized Ventura County.
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