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...crash at the new hotel at Mandalay Bay, where my standard room has two bathrooms and three flat-screen TVs. But New Vegas won't let me be. It needs to show me what a great time it's having, with its supersized, sanitized, nonintimidating version of the same sins I don't want when I'm at home. I am considering taking the beer so I can finally get sick and get the nurse to send me home. This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped...
...highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now, instead of gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, and draws on more profitable revenue streams such as drinks and a $5 atm fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 cover charge nonlocals pay; as at all Vegas strip clubs, that goes to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off. Driving a cab in Vegas has become less about ferrying passengers than about strip-club promotion. "To someone from Minnesota we're sluts...
...COVER STORY VEGAS IS BACK, BABY Sin City has morphed into Fun City, serving up oodles of vice without the guilt...
Then again, no one goes to Vegas to think about geopolitics. Look at today's Vegas shows and ask whether America's morals are more progressive or more conservative, and you have to answer yes and yes. Las Vegas, after all, is about sin, but also limits. As on Spelling's '70s soaps--in which characters learned pat little lessons when they overindulged--these shows offer both titillation and retribution. On CSI we get the former stripper who puts murderers in jail; on Dr. Vegas, the hot singer whose drug problem nearly kills her; on Single in Vegas, the party...
...this makes the perfect setting for an America in which Rush Limbaugh can be a recovering druggie and conservative icon--an America that wants the binge and the purge, the sin and the penitence, all in one neon package. Until we find a better metaphor for our split moral personality, what happens in Vegas will stay ... on TV. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles