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Maybe it makes perfect sense that Steve Wynn would turn into the Mister Rogers of Las Vegas, Nevada. Sitting in his new hotel in a red V-neck sweater and gray wool pants, Wynn, 63-famous for yelling at employees, taking up steer roping and accidentally shooting off his index finger in his office-is talking about building neighborhoods in his latest land of make-believe. Explaining that his hotel will be a mellow retreat, without the glitz and campy themes that have made him such a sensation in the past, Wynn breaks into a rendition of Bali...
...anyone is allowed to morph this dramatically, it should be Steve Wynn. After all, Wynn turned a city that was a pit stop for male vice into an international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 43-m man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in April, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme...
...This is the most understated overstated hotel in the world," says Wynn. "It's held back just a touch." Even though it's ridiculous to describe a $2.7 billion, 2,716-room hotel with a man-made lake, massage tables in the suites and Wynn's huge signature on the top of the building as understated, in Vegas terms, he's right. There are low ceilings, short hallways and lots of nooks that make the place feel intimate and isolated. In a radical break from casino logic, there is natural sunlight everywhere, and all the restaurants and bars have outdoor...
...fa?ade and next door to that you have banks and the banking and financial center, I'm not sure we will feel happy about it." LEE HSIEN LOONG, Singapore's Prime Minister, on strict guidelines for two proposed casinos in the city-state. Las Vegas impresario Steve Wynn has accused the government of micromanaging bids to build the casinos...
...question, Kerkorian still gets a kick out of high-stakes deals. In 2000 his MGM Grand bought Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts for $6.4 billion, and last June Kerkorian snapped up the Mandalay Resort Group for $4.8 billion, giving him control of 11 hotel-casinos on the Strip and more than half the gambling action. Last year Kerkorian sold his stake in the MGM movie studio for $5 billion to a consortium led by Sony. In fact, Kerkorian's dalliance with MGM over the years reads like a sordid back-lot love story. He first bought shares in the studio...