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		<title>Motion Control: In Art?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motion Control: In Art? Motion control is not something that you would think of as being art related but it really can be. In fact, it is one style of art that is fast becoming popular. If you are like &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/motion-control-in-art/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">Motion control is not something that you would think of as being art related but it really can be. In fact, it is one style of art that is fast becoming popular. If you are like many, when you hear of motion control you think about the science behind how things will work. Usually in a commercial setting, motion control helps companies to develop ways to get the job done in the best motion possible. For example, it may tell you how to set up a factory most effectively.</p>
<p>But, motion control can be used to portray art as well. For many, this is the most beautiful form of art. But, before you can tell that, you have to experience how it all works. You will find that there are many artists who enjoy using this medium for their experiences. It is common for them to use various types of motion control to depict the aspect that they are after. </p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">One of the largest difficulties that individuals who use motion control in their artistic design have is that in order to use motion control, they need to have large, expensive commercial equipment to do it. This very expensive equipment doesn&rsquo;t allow many individuals to use this medium then. But, for those who are persistent and determined, there are ways. For example, many have gone to great lengths to find scrap machinery and to build their own motion control machines. This shows the true dedication that artists can have!</p>
<p>So, if you want to experience first hand just what motion control in art has to offer, where would you go? It makes sense to consider traveling to various art museums to see the work in motion but this is not always available. Instead, consider simple check out options on the web and then find where artists plan to display their work. Motion control is worth the look.</p>
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		<title>choosing the jewelry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[choosing the jewelry choosing the jewelry to complement any outfit follow three simple steps and you won&#39;t go wrong: 1) Determine the base color of your clothing. This is the dominant color. If you&#8217;re wearing the purple blouse with a &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/choosing-the-jewelry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">choosing the jewelry to complement any outfit follow three simple steps and you won&#39;t go wrong:</p>
<p>1) Determine the base color of your clothing. This is the dominant color. If you&rsquo;re wearing the purple blouse with a tan skirt the purple is the dominant color.</p>
<p>If the outfit has a pattern, squint at it and try to see what color feels most dominant (this is an old artist&#39;s trick). If no particular color stands out, determine if the overall pattern is cool or warm as we did with our grey suit. Again squinting helps.</p>
<p>2) Find the complement of this color on your color wheel. If you really want to stand out, use the complement and stop at this step &#8212; you&#39;re done!</p>
<p>3) Look at the triad colors next to the complement. These are most often the colors you will use for your accessories. If you want a brighter look you can use both triads. For a more subtle look, choose one or the other and then use variations on this color (the variations on any one color are almost endless). </p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">That&#39;s it &#8212; three easy steps that will assure that your outfits are always tres chic and save you hours trying to figure out what&#39;s just not quite right or choosing by hit and miss.</p>
<p>Of course, fashion colors change from year to year, but you now understand color combinations and how to put them together in wow combinations, whatever colors your starting with.</p>
<p>Coming in part two, how colors effect each other.</p>
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		<title>Enter the secondaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enter the secondaries The secondary colors are made by mixing equal parts of any two complementaries. So the secondary colors are green (yellow and blue), orange (yellow and red) and purple (blue and red). Let&#39;s say you have a yellow &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/enter-the-secondaries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">The secondary colors are made by mixing equal parts of any two complementaries. So the secondary colors are green (yellow and blue), orange (yellow and red) and purple (blue and red).</p>
<p>Let&#39;s say you have a yellow dress and you want this outfit to be a traffic stopper. If it&#39;s for daytime, you can use bold purple jewelry and accessories. This classic combination of purple and yellow is eye catching. It can be sophisticated and definite or more playful, depending on the yellow and purple you start out with.</p>
<p>However, you don&#39;t always want to be quite that much the center of attention. What do you do to make more subtle fashion statements, but still use colors well?</p>
<p>The yellow and purple we used above are complementary colors. This means they are directly across from each other on the color wheel.</p>
<p>The colors to each side of our main color&#39;s complement are the triad colors. (Triad because the color you start with plus the two others make three colors total.) The triads are our friends for choosing jewelry or other accessories.</p>
<p>Let&#39;s look at our yellow dress again. This time we&#39;re wearing it to a business meeting. What would be appropriate jewelry? Gold on yellow is too close &#8212; it will tend to wash out. The whole outfit will look drab (more drab than if you didn&#39;t use the gold jewelry).</p>
<p>Silver will work, particularly if the silver is a bit pale and the yellow of the dress if very vivid. But you don&#39;t have to stick with gold or silver. There are many colored gems and jewels out there. Try a sapphire necklace. The blue will nicely set off the yellow and both will sparkle. Or a red brooch. The red can tend towards orange for a brighter effect or towards blue for more contrast.</p>
<p>Now how about the vivid purple blouse you just adore? How to accessorize it? The purple is already such a bold color.</p>
<p>Well, we&#39;ll do exactly the opposite of what we have done with our yellow dress, since purple is yellow&#39;s complement.</p>
<p>For our purple blouse, if you want to be bold and outrageous, go for bright gold (yellow) or just plain yellow jewelry.<br />Silver will not work with the purple since the blue of the silver is too close to our purple color (as the gold was on the yellow dress). Of course red is wonderful with purple, just showing that every rule is made to be broken (with discrimination and taste, of course). </p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">We can team our purple blouse with a tan skirt (tan being a form of yellow) and dress it down for a business meeting. We&#39;ll want our jewelry to be a little more subtle. In this case, rather than yellow, let&#39;s use the triad colors to purple &#8212; orange or green. These may seem like bold choices, but remember you want your jewelry to be seen, not to blend into the woodwork.</p>
<p>How about an amber pendant? This would be sophisticated and would be set off wonderfully by the purple background without being garish.</p>
<p>Or an emerald brooch and earrings, or a green frog pin. The possibilities are endless within your basic color choices. If you stick with these color constraints, you will not go wrong.</p>
<p>Now let&#39;s consider the classic grey business suit. You may be thinking that your grey suit is neutral so you can choose any color at all. This is rarely the case and can be the cause of that ensemble that doesn&#39;t quite work.</p>
<p>Most greys tend towards blue (cool) or red/yellow (warm). So first determine if your suit is cool grey or warm grey. If you&#39;re having trouble with this (and it can be tough at first), try holding it up to other grey items in your house. You&#39;ll start to notice that it looks a bit redder (or yellower) or a bit more blue. This will help you determine the color bias of your grey suit.</p>
<p>Most warm grey used in clothing is a reddish grey. This is because red complements the complexion. But you will find some yellowish greys, particularly in garments with very sophisticated color.</p>
<p>Let&#39;s say our suit is a cool grey, so for the purposes of our color choice we&#39;ll consider it blue. The complement of blue is orange.</p>
<p>We want to keep this a business suit, so we&#39;ll pick the triad to each side of the orange to start with. Red and yellow. This tells us that gold will be a perfect choice for our grey suit. Silver is too blue and would wash out the outfit.</p>
<p>You may have noticed that gold tends towards red or yellow. If you are using more than one accessory with the gold, determine whether the primary gold jewelry you will be wearing is reddish gold or yellow gold.</p>
<p>This is done just as we did with the suit itself, by comparing it with other colors.</p>
<p>If the gold is reddish, then keep your other accessories in the red and yellow range. If the gold is yellow, keep the other colors in the yellow orange range.</p>
<p>Note, the description &quot;yellow gold&quot; is for any gold that is not white (silvery). Yellow golds range from a deep red to a very pale yellow, so be sure to check each piece of jewelry when putting together your outfit. A red gold and a yellow gold next to each other will look subtly wrong, unless they are carefully combined in a single piece by a master jeweler. A lack of understanding about the tendencies of gold to be manifested as different colors results in fashion mistakes are that are hard to pin down.</p>
<p>So, let&#39;s say we&#39;ve chosen a beautiful golden horse pin as our primary jewelry piece. We look at it and realize that it tends, ever so slightly, towards red. This makes the rest of our accessorizing easy.</p>
<p>We&#39;ll go for red and even towards the cooler reds (those tending towards purple, rather than towards the yellows and oranges). With our golden horse brooch and a deep slightly purplish red scarf our grey business suit stays business-like but acquires a powerful feminine appeal.</p>
<p>If you want more color, choose red&#39;s triads, blue or yellow.</p>
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		<title>Three Easy Steps To Perfect Color Every Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">Color is everywhere, in your clothes, in your jewelry. Color is life. Fashion and color coordination can make or break your carefuly planned outfit.</p>
<p>Here&#39;s a bit of color theory with a fashionista bent.<br />&nbsp;</p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">Primary colors</p>
<p>These are red, blue and yellow. In theory, you can make any color from these three primaries (except white, which is really an absence of color). In practice, it depends on what red, blue or yellow you start with, but we are not mixing paints here, so just remember that the primary colors are red, blue and yellow. You&#39;ll learn why in the next step.</p>
<p>The secondary colors are the colors you get from mixing equal amounts of any two primaries. (If the primaries are pure, mixing all three will give you black.)</p>
<p>The secondaries are purple, orange and green.</p>
<p>Now why do you care?</p>
<p>Well, primaries and secondaries together give us complementary colors. The complement of the color is the color directly across from it on the color wheel, or if starting with a primary, the color made from mixing the other two primaries. So essentially a color and its complement contain all of the primaries between them.</p>
<p>Red&#39;s compliment is green (Merry Christmas!). Yellow&#39;s complement is purple. Blue&#39;s complement is orange.<br />This is as much contrast as you can get between colors of the same value (brightness or darkness). So if you want to make a bold statement, the primaries are a treat.</div>
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		<title>Screenwriting &#8211; 10 Basic Rules</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;10 Basic Rules &#160;1. Feature film script should be between 95 and 120 pages in length. Never longer. A script over 120 pages needs editing. Never shorter. A script shorter than 90 pages is too short. The perfect length is &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/screenwriting-10-basic-rules/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">&nbsp;<span class="inputbox">1. Feature film script should be between 95 and 120 pages in length. Never longer. A script over 120 pages needs editing. Never shorter. A script shorter than 90 pages is too short. The perfect length is 100 pages for comedies, 110 for dramas. Cheat your margins if you have to, but better yet write and cut to the correct length.</p>
<p> 2. Do NOT use camera directions. Ever. (Note: Historically, writers used to employ camera directions, but the practice is no longer in vogue.) Do not use words like CAMERA, CLOSE UP, LONG SHOT, DOLLY, PAN, or anything else that refers to the camera. Do not use CUT TO or any references to editing. At the beginning of the script, you may use FADE IN. At the end of the script, you may use FADE OUT. Please use a maximum of two dissolves in the entire script. If any. Dissolves are not generally well-received, disdained by directors and studio readers.</p>
<p> 3. Dialogue should generally be one to three lines long. Only occasionally should dialogue exceed four lines. Keep it short and simple. A few monologues may be acceptable, but even they should be broken up with action (e.g. &lsquo;he drags on a cigarette&rsquo;), so they are under ten lines in length. Long stretches of one character talking are boring and hard to read.</p>
<p> 4. Scene description should be kept to a minimum. Many studio executives and readers may actually skip over scene description. If they can&rsquo;t get the story from the dialogue, some may feel frustrated and stop reading. Scene description should be one to three lines in length, and never more than five lines without a break. When describing significant amounts of action, break the description into logical paragraphs, separated by double spacing.</p>
<p> 5. An entire scene &ndash; from one slug line to the next &ndash; ideally runs three pages or less (it can be as brief as a small fraction of a page). Never more than five pages in length. The average scene should be a page and a half or less. Larger, important scenes can run three or four pages. Please make certain the script keeps &lsquo;moving&rsquo; or &lsquo;flowing&rsquo; for the reader. If you have a great deal of dialogue or information, experiment with breaking the scene up into multiple locations (e.g. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get to the restaurant, and I&rsquo;ll explain&hellip;&rdquo;).</p>
<p> 6. Character names should begin with different letters so the reader can more easily distinguish them. Different numbers of syllables can also help (e.g. Stan, Sue, Sam and Sara is far more challenging for the reader than Susan, Drew, Alyssa, Charlie). In particular, characters that talk to one another should have uniquely different names (e.g. not &lsquo;Lyle&rsquo; and &lsquo;Kyle).</span></p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">7. If a particular character has few lines (half a dozen or so) and only appears in one or two scenes, it&rsquo;s best to refer to that character by occupation (e.g. POLICEMAN, MAID, BARTENDER). This lets the reader know they do not have to worry about this character fitting into the story. Use a proper name only if important to do so or the character has a signficant effect on the story.</p>
<p>8. Do NOT use parentheticals, except when absolutely essential. Typically, a parenthetical is used to introduce a line of dialogue, describing how that line should be read (e.g. angrily, laughing, nervously). Please make every effort to avoid this device and, if you must, limit to four or fewer your use of parentheticals. The litmus test is: is it likely the reader will misinterpret this line (sarcastic: &ldquo;Sure I will.). Beginning writers often make the mistake of using parentheticals consistently throughout a screenplay.</p>
<p>9. Slug lines &ndash; the first line of scene, describing time and place &ndash; always begin with INT. (interior) or EXT. (exterior). They always end with NIGHT or DAY. Do NOT use &lsquo;Magic Hour&rsquo;, &lsquo;Late Afternoon&rsquo;, or any other such departure. Only use &lsquo;Morning&rsquo; or &lsquo;Sunset&rsquo; if it is critical to the timeline of the story.</p>
<p>10. Character names are capitalized in scene description only once, the very first time that character appears in the screenplay. Sounds are capitalized (e.g. BANG). Please don&rsquo;t use this often or get carried away with capitalizing sounds (e.g. PATTER, PATTER, PATTER of feet as he SHUFFLED; or the faucet went DRIP, DRIP, DRIP as the kettle WHISTLED). Stick to loud, important sounds. If in doubt, don&rsquo;t capitalize. Nothing else in scene description should be capitalized.</p></div>
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<p align="justify">Here are ten things you can do in a screen room!<br />1. Let the children play in it! If you have children, they can play outside while still being protected from insects like mosquitoes and bees.<br />2. Host a party! Guests will appreciate being able to enjoy the summer while relaxing in your screen room.<br />3. Watch the big game! If you can&rsquo;t be there and the weather&rsquo;s nice, bring the TV out and watch the game outside. You&rsquo;ll still get some of that outdoor feel!<br />4. Exercise! If you have an exercise routine, why not do it in your screen room? Enjoy the fresh air while getting back in shape! </p>
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<div align="justify">5. Take a nap. There&rsquo;s something special about being able to sleep outside on a nice day. It&rsquo;s nice to relax with no cares in the world and the wind gently blowing by.<br />6. Take care of your plants. If you have some potted plants, use them to decorate your screen room. You can then take care of them without worrying about bees, especially if you&rsquo;re allergic to bee stings.<br />7. Sleep outside for the night! Enjoy the stars and the fresh air while relaxing for the night.<br />8. Eat dinner outside! It&rsquo;s much more enjoyable to eat outside when you don&rsquo;t have to worry about flies or other insects buzzing around during your mealtime.<br />9. Sit in your hot tub while in a screen room. Just sit back, relax and let your worries melt away!<br />10. And don&rsquo;t forget number ten&hellip;&hellip;</div>
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		<title>Conclusion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conclusion Although both &#34;My Fair Lady&#34; and &#34;Camelot&#34; had the potential to be great films, &#34;Camelot&#34; lacked two of the four factors necessary for a quality movie musical. These factors, strong story line and well-written screenplay, quality music, great casting, &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/conclusion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">Although both &quot;My Fair Lady&quot; and &quot;Camelot&quot; had the potential to be great films, &quot;Camelot&quot; lacked two of the four factors necessary for a quality movie musical. These factors, strong story line and well-written screenplay, quality music, great casting, and effective direction, could be used to compare other movie musicals, for example, &quot;Gigi&quot; and &quot;Brigadoon&quot; or &quot;Oklahoma&quot; and &quot;South Pacific,&quot; and the results would be similar. A movie musical that is deficient in even one of the four factors could make the difference between a film that lives on for generations or one that gets lost on a shelf.<br />&nbsp;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Direction Both movies had well-known and well-respected directors, but their approaches to directing the films were vastly different. George Cukor, the director of &#34;My Fair Lady,&#34; let the story and music give the movie its strength and character. There were &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/direction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">Both movies had well-known and well-respected directors, but their approaches to directing the films were vastly different. George Cukor, the director of &quot;My Fair Lady,&quot; let the story and music give the movie its strength and character. There were no special effects used and no unique filming techniques, but, rather, just good direction of excellent actors and actresses performing on studio lots. Cukor used the strong screenplay and beautiful music of &quot;My Fair Lady&quot; to guide his direction. </p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">On the other hand, Joshua Logan, the director of &quot;Camelot,&quot; used far too many close-ups that had the audience focused on the leads&#39; make-up rather than on the strong plot and music. In some scenes, instead of presenting a natural context for appreciating the songs or dialog, Logan chose to fill the large screen with the actors&rsquo; faces, resulting in a distracting rather than enhancing effect.</div>
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		<title>Casting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casting Although Richard Harris was the perfect King Arthur, casting is one major area where the movie version of &#34;Camelot&#34; fell short of its potential. Both plays starred Julie Andrews and her beautiful voice added much to the already great &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/casting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">Although Richard Harris was the perfect King Arthur, casting is one major area where the movie version of &quot;Camelot&quot; fell short of its potential. Both plays starred Julie Andrews and her beautiful voice added much to the already great scores, but, unfortunately, she was not cast as the female lead in either film. However, the producers of the movie version of &quot;My Fair Lady&quot; had the good sense to hire Audrey Hepburn who was perfectly cast as Eliza Doolittle. She had the innocence and fragility needed for the role with just enough fire in her to finally rebel against Henry Higgins, while still leaving the audience sympathetic to her. On the other hand, the female lead in &quot;Camelot,&quot; Vanessa Redgrave, although an extremely gifted actress, was miscast as Guenevere. She presents the character as a cold, selfish woman who is indifferent to the tragedy she brings to her husband and his empire. Unfortunately, she was permitted to do her own singing with the result of a lessening of the impact of some of the songs in &quot;Camelot.&quot; On the other hand, Audrey Hepburn&#39;s singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, a singer with a beautiful, trained voice. </p>
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<div class="inputbox" align="justify">The casting of the third lead character in each film also differed in quality. In &quot;My Fair Lady,&quot; Colonel Pickering was played by a distinguished English actor, Wilfrid Hyde-White, whose acting was excellent. Unfortunately, the key role of Lancelot in &quot;Camelot&quot; was played by a novice Italian actor, Franco Nero, with limited command of English. Although he certainly fit the role physically, with his exceptional good looks, his acting was stiff and his delivery of lines was almost robotic.</p>
<p>The male leads in both films were perfect. In fact, the casting of Richard Harris probably saved &quot;Camelot&quot; from being a disaster. He was so well-cast as King Arthur that after the film, he became associated with the role and played it in several major productions, including one on Broadway and one in London.</p></div>
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		<title>Quality Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quality Music The scores from &#34;My Fair Lady&#34; and &#34;Camelot,&#34; both written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, are wonderful, with a good blend of beautiful melodies and sometimes poignant and other times humorous lyrics. Both shows had one &#8230; <a href="http://www.californiascreenplaycompetition.com/quality-music/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p class="inputbox" align="justify">The scores from &quot;My Fair Lady&quot; and &quot;Camelot,&quot; both written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, are wonderful, with a good blend of beautiful melodies and sometimes poignant and other times humorous lyrics. Both shows had one major hit romantic ballad &#8212; &quot;On the Street Where You Live&quot; for &quot;My Fair Lady&quot; and &quot;If Ever I Would Leave You&quot; for &quot;Camelot&quot; &#8212; and both songs were dubbed in the movies by professional singers. The songs for the male lead are more melodious in &quot;Camelot&quot; and, at least in the movie version, the male lead, Richard Harris, had a better singing voice than Rex Harrison had in &quot;My Fair Lady.&quot; With basically equivalent scores, it seems that it is not the music that distinguishes the two works. </p>
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