Andrew
08-18-2005, 12:03 AM
Move Over Pyramids, Wynn's Here (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68527,00.html?tw=rss.TOP) -- Wired, 2005-08-17
LAS VEGAS -- As Steve Wynn appeared atop his new 50-story eponymous hotel-casino on the Vegas Strip earlier this year for the property's first TV ads, viewers were left wondering, "How'd he do that?"
But it's actually more startling and intriguing to find Wynn at the base of the same gargantuan resort property, on a patio outside the Wynn Las Vegas' ice cream shop where the gleaming bronze-glass tower is separated from a 140-foot, man-made mountain by a 30-foot-wide river. There, the hotel visionary seems dwarfed and consumed -- literally and figuratively -- by his own creations, awed that they ever got built and, surprisingly, not nearly as larger-than-life as might be expected from someone whose place in Vegas lore is more secure than anyone of his era.
LAS VEGAS -- As Steve Wynn appeared atop his new 50-story eponymous hotel-casino on the Vegas Strip earlier this year for the property's first TV ads, viewers were left wondering, "How'd he do that?"
But it's actually more startling and intriguing to find Wynn at the base of the same gargantuan resort property, on a patio outside the Wynn Las Vegas' ice cream shop where the gleaming bronze-glass tower is separated from a 140-foot, man-made mountain by a 30-foot-wide river. There, the hotel visionary seems dwarfed and consumed -- literally and figuratively -- by his own creations, awed that they ever got built and, surprisingly, not nearly as larger-than-life as might be expected from someone whose place in Vegas lore is more secure than anyone of his era.