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Article: National Artist Caparas hits back at critics.(Showbiz)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- August 7, 2009
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Calling his detractors “elitist snobs,” writer-director Carlo J. Caparas is unyielding in his position on his conferment as a National Artist of the Philippines.“I deserve this award. These people - those who keep on clucking like chickens over [the award] - they are all ‘political slaves’,” he said during a press conference held Aug. 7 at the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) offices..“They are just using me to hit at the president [Arroyo].”Not a few derided Caparas’ conferment, deeming him “undeserving”.Caparas said he doesn’t understand his critics, which included singer-composer ...