Elaine May Brings Down The House At Writers Guild Awards West

Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline.com
Sat, 02/13/2016 - 9:44pm

By the time the Writers Guild Awards show in New York ended with all the winners leaking out, the WGA Awards ceremony in Century City was completely deflated. That is until Elaine May took the podium at the Hyatt Century City ballroom to accept the guild’s Laurel Award which was being presented to her by Chinatown screenwriter Robert Towne. For a room that had scattered sleepy laughs throughout the evening, when May appeared, they sprung to their feet and delivered a…

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