Winner and Still Champion

Like the city itself, the Los Angeles ad crowd is pretty mellow, but not without a tinge of aggression simmering below the surface. How else to explain the body slams and sucker punches at the Los Angeles Advertising Agencies Associa tion’s Leader of the Year dinner?

Honored this year were Deutsch/LA’s Eric Hirshberg, Saatchi & Saatchi’s Scott Gilbert, and davidandgoliath’s David Angelo and Skip Sullivan (shown here, with LAAAA chief Rick Carpenter of DDB). Angelo and Sullivan’s thanks came in the form of a wrestling match, the “Thriller in Beverly Hiller,” pitting a wee “David” against a muscle-bound giant, both in togas.