Ruben Nepales, the LA-based former columnist of Inquirer, happily informed us last weekend that the article he wrote for Inquirer Entertainment dated July 28, 2019, about Leonardo DiCaprio—titled “DiCaprio’s fading star character inspires his talk on how fickle fame is”—won second place in the Celebrity Feature, TV/Film-related category of the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
Elated
First place went to a piece about Robert De Niro and Al Pacino by Brent Lang of Variety, while third place went to the feature about Rene Zellweger by Kyle Buchanan of the New York Times.
“I am elated that someone like me, who grew up in Calasiao, …
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