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Wynn and Adelson have done more to remake Las Vegas than anyone else, and yet no two businessmen could be less alike. Wynn is Vegas royalty, the artist who rejuvenated the Strip by going upmarket in tone with the Bellagio, which showcased Van Goghs and Cezannes and Degas's dancers instead of topless showgirls. He lost the place to raider Kirk Kerkorian, who took over Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, and booted Wynn, who scored a $6.4 billion payout but still had a score to settle. Last year Wynn returned with the new Wynn Las Vegas: more hushed, more exclusive...
Want to know how Carl Icahn thinks? Icahn will tell you a story. He was at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas a few months ago and played poker with professional gamblers. In a $40,000 game, he wound up as one of two players left in a hand of seven-card stud. Icahn had two pairs; his opponent was showing four to a straight. The pro tipped off Icahn that he had seen his cards and said that because Icahn was an amateur, he felt obliged to tell him so. The pro then bet the table...
...exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside Treasure Island in 1993 or the giant pond he created with fountains choreographed to songs for the front of the Bellagio in 1998. "Theme parks are a collection of wows," says the man who not so long ago turned Vegas into a theme park. "Hotels are places that have a range of emotions. You're supposed to tarry." Yes, Steve Wynn wants you to come to Las Vegas to ... tarry...
...front of the hotel?" says Wynn. "The audience shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It should be inside-eating, drinking, gambling, shopping. I had it 180 degrees wrong." Now he regrets giving people across the street at the Paris hotel free shows of his dancing waters at the Bellagio. "If I knew this then, I wouldn't have put tigers for people to walk by at the Mirage. I would have integrated that experience organically...
...front of the hotel?" says Wynn. "The audience shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It should be inside--eating, drinking, gambling, shopping. I had it 180 degrees wrong." Now he regrets giving people across the street at the Paris hotel free shows of his dancing waters at the Bellagio. "If I knew this then, I wouldn't have put tigers for people to walk by at the Mirage. I would have integrated that experience organically...