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Article: Analysis: Why Wynn can't lose in 'the last honest place in America' As another, $2.7bn monument to excess is unveiled, Andrew Gumbel reports from Las Vegas on the winning streak of the casino king and asks how long Sin City can stand the pace
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Acasino opening in Las Vegas is not unlike the premiere of a hotly
awaited Hollywood film; the frisson of anticipation, the round of
exclusive parties, the insistent whispers in the local press of
celebrity sightings. More often than not, there are fireworks.
The difference is that new casino resorts in Vegas are much rarer
than new movies, the last being the ill-fated Aladdin in 2000. That
only heightens the expectations.
And when the man unveiling the casino happens to be Steve Wynn,
the undisputed king of the Vegas strip these past 15 years, the
universal assumption is that he will show the world something
extraordinary " something that will redefine Sin City and the way