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...Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Grand bought Wynn's Mirage Resorts for $6.4 billion, Wynn spent 11/2 months with a sketchbook, walking around the 215 acres he acquired at more than $1 million each when he bought the Desert Inn (which he had torn down). He also hired real estate mogul Irwin Molasky to quietly buy up the adjacent homes. "When I bought this piece of property, I laughed," says Wynn. "I said, 'This is the most valuable piece of property in the western part of America.' I had to [pay] $270 million, and I had it that morning...
...quite sure what to make of the spindle-shanked blond. "When I first met her," says a fellow conservative, "she was walking around with a black miniskirt and a mink stole, making out with Bob Guccione Jr. in the stairwell." (Coulter dated publisher Guccione, son of the porn mogul, for six months. She says the stairwell story "could be" true, although "I make out in public less often now that I'm publicly recognizable." As for living on chardonnay and cigarettes, Coulter says that's "definitely true...
...often said, "Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan." It is odd that among the multiparents of Mogul Spielberg, no mention was made of Richard Zanuck and David Brown, who introduced Spielberg to the world of feature motion pictures by producing Spielberg's first two feature-length films, the acclaimed Sugarland Express and the legendary Jaws. We need no recognition for ourselves, but Zanuck/Brown might have had at least a footnote in your cover story. Richard D. Zanuck David Brown New York City America's Changing Face...
...twists herself into the ideal of whatever man she's with--avant-garde boy toy for first husband and Barbarella director Roger Vadim, liberal activist for second husband and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) co-founder Tom Hayden, traditional corporate wife for the third, Dixie-loving media mogul Ted Turner. But it wasn't until 1998, when she made an unblinking 20-minute autobiographical film as a 60th-birthday present for herself, that she realized it was true. "The disease to please was in me from an early age," she says of her fraught relationship with her father...
...twists herself into the ideal of whatever man she's with-avant-garde boy toy for first husband and Barbarella director Roger Vadim, liberal activist for second husband and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) co-founder Tom Hayden, traditional corporate wife for the third, Dixie-loving media mogul Ted Turner. But it wasn't until 1998, when she made an unblinking 20-minute autobiographical film as a 60th-birthday present for herself, that she realized it was true. "The disease to please was in me from an early age," she says of her fraught relationship with her father...