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...ALBERT WYNN (D) District...
...Wynn is a popular two-term Congressman from the only majority African-American suburban district in the country. He takes good care of his constituents, many of whom are federal employees. He pushed to include a measure in the 1994 Defense Authorization bill that provided $50 million in aid to laid-off military workers, and was one of the few Democrats who supported a G.O.P. compromise to end the federal shutdown last winter...
...begins more or less in 1984, when a Washington Post reporter named Elena McMahon abruptly quits covering the 1984 presidential campaign for her paper. Earlier, Elena had walked out of her marriage to Wynn Janklow, a Los Angeles megamillionaire, taking their teenage daughter Catherine with her. "She knew how to cut and run," says the narrator, who had met Elena in Los Angeles; both were regular invitees to Oscar-night parties that strongly resemble, as described here, the legendary ones thrown by the late agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar. Didion's narrator does not dwell on this detail...
...long "Movie News" segments, frequently run during local newscasts, may look like clips from Entertainment Tonight, but they are actually commercials for Disney films. In 1994 NBC aired a prime-time special on the newly opened Treasure Island resort and casino in Las Vegas that was produced by Stephen Wynn, who owns the place. ABC, CBS and NBC have all run prime-time specials on the making of such big Hollywood films as The Lion King and Wyatt Earp--specials produced by the studios releasing the films...
...While Wynn and Bennett were Disneyfying the Strip with automated pirate shows and indoor theme parks, he catered to blue-collar gamblers at Bob Stupak's Vegas World, using vacation packages to fill the tacky rooms and move the garbage buffet. (In 1991 he was fined $125,000 for misleading advertising.) But now Stupak is playing with the big boys. He wants to stay at the table and to be seen betting all his chips. "I know one thing," he says. "It's better for people to know you than not to know you. To be in Las Vegas...