Article: Kudos as appetizer: WGA salutes Cody, Coens, then eves pact.(Writers Guild of America)(Diablo Cody)(Joel Coen)(Ethan coen)

Diablo Cody, who penned Fox Searchlight's "Juno," took the WGA's original screenplay award while Ethan and Joel Coen won adapted screenplay for Miramax's "No Country for Old Men."

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The WGA West had scrubbed its black-tie awards ceremony last month due to the work stoppage, while the WGA East held a lowkey "recognition reception" affair attended by about 400 at the Broadway Millennium Hotel in Gotham a few hours after the membership meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Saturday night's announcements in New York came minutes before the crucial WGA membership meeting at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium, where guild leaders presented ...

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