SCENES FROM WINNING A PRESS CLUB AWARD

ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, Film
Tony Castro
LAMonthly.org, “If Marilyn Had Been a Car, She Would Have Been a Ferrari” https://bit.ly/49ZO7Bq
Judges’ comment: What an entertaining story about the Ferrari and America’s intrigue with the car in television and movies throughout the decades.

Los Angeles Monthly in its maiden year won the top prize for best entertainment feature writing at the 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards presented by the Los Angeles Press Club at its dinner gala at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel.

The award was won by writer Tony Castro’s feature headlined “If Marilyn Had Been a Car, She Would Have Been a Ferrari” with the award judges’ commenting, “What an entertaining story about the Ferrari and America’s intrigue with the car in television and movies throughout the decades.”

The awards are handed out by the Los Angeles Press Club, which previously said that more than 2,300 entries were submitted this year. 

Castro is a writer-at-large and national political writer for LAMonthly.org.

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