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...chance, I was an overnight guest at the Bellagio the week Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Las Vegas hotel with the $300 million art collection opened, and I have one question that was left unanswered even by the extensive coverage in TIME: Why didn't Wynn spend more of the $300 million on the art in my room? After careful inspection of all the pictures on the walls of our standard double, my wife and I arrived at a ballpark estimate...
What brings out what the psychologists call pricing behavior even in my wife is the Las Vegas custom of emphasizing how much any new hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...
...Venetian is a study in duplication. Everything from the Doges Palace to the Campanile was built virtually to scale of the original. Craftsmen labored at a workshop in suburban Las Vegas, turning out hand-chiseled columns and marble floors to the exact specifications of an architectural historian imported from Venice. ("This isn't some box with slots in it," says Wynn respectfully of his rivals' projects...
Adelson is trying to bring a new ingredient to the basic Las Vegas hotel rooms: comfort. The bathrooms in the all-suite Venetian are the size of standard hotel rooms. He spent $9 million just to create step-down living rooms in each suite, to impart the feeling of luxury. "Las Vegas' yesterday thinking was casino-centric. The idea was to deprive guests of creature comforts to keep them in casinos," he says--no minibars, no snacks in the room, no safe-deposit boxes, no fax machines and certainly no computer hookups. Says he: "If you were hungry, they imagined...
SENTENCED. JEREMY STROHMEYER, 20, convicted molester and murderer of seven-year-old Sherrice Iverson; to life in prison without parole; in Las Vegas. Strohmeyer asked for forgiveness but blasted his former friend David Cash for watching the brutal crime without intervening, saying of Cash, "He makes me sick...