Coming to you live from the Wynn hotel . . .
After more adventures than we might have liked with the nation’s air-travel system, we are live and in person at the ShowStoppers event held at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas.
Steve Wynn is only the second-richest man in Las Vegas (rival Sheldon Adelson has him beat, for now), but as much as anyone, he has shaped modern Las Vegas with his vision of hospitality. He has topped himself again and again, and given what I’ve seen of the Wynn, it will be fascinating to see what Wynn Resorts uncorks when it opens the Encore hotel / casino / resort in 2009.
Wynn himself is fascinating — check out this item from the current issue of Esquire magazine:
“What I’ve Learned”
If you don’t have a voice that forces you back to basics, you’re a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You’re at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I’m not a daredevil. I don’t fly without a safety net.
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