Our favorite casino mogul, Steve Wynn, reminds us that his is a “more restrained” and private form of procession to the pronubial altar, and should be treated with discretion by the media …
Which reminds me that Daily Fiasco requested that the Andrea Hissom “too much information” wedding video released with great fanfare (and many a Tweet) by Wynn Resorts stay on the S&G front page. (Fiasco: “One day isn’t enough to process that much camel toe. It’s like staring into a singularity. Time and space lose all meaning.”) Request granted. If we’ve learned anything from this excessively edifying episode, it’s that when Priscilla Presley tells you that something (see: Elvis, Viva) is the greatest since sliced bread, it’s advisable to get a second opinion.
From my vantage point in the nation’s capitol the Wynn wedding has received zerp publicity. It’s not exactly the wedding of the season.
Wynn’s outsize ego and personality has usually served his company well but if I was his PR guy I’d be a bit concerned that he has shown signs of Trumpism. One or two more marrages, a few threats to decamp for Bejing and another half dozen rants against the President will permanantly tarnish his coveted brand. Let’s hope Steve doesn’t start using the Donald’s hair dresser.
HOWARD – DON’T SELL STEVE WYNN SHORT…HE IS A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MAN….OBAMA’S MESSAGE ABOUT – ‘NOT GOING TO LAS VEGAS’ WILL RING IN MANY PEOPLE’S EARS FOR A LONG TIME…..
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Dave, between the bride and groom, who do you think has the more successful plastic surgery procedures? Steve’s cheeks look like more cotton has been stuffed in them than Vito Corleone, and Andrea’s face looks like death by botox.
Toss-up, if you ask me. For the kind of money Steve’s worth, you’d think he’d look better than a 70-yo who is trying to look 55.
Yeah, in recent interviews, he doesn’t seem exactly full of vision. For a guy who I actually admire, there’s been this sense of incoherence in some of his recent interviews/statements.
It’s just silly to state that people make vacation and convention plans based on what a politician says. I’m pretty sure Obama learned his lesson about sounding like a teacher lecturing class, and I’m absolutely positive that this will get mentioned 1.5 billion more times in comment threads. Oscar Goodman tried to make so much hay over this that the Alfalfa Society named him Man Of The Year. Meanwhile back in reality it’s time to start working on the wife, she wants the family vacation to be taking Nicholas to college in Santa Cruz, and Jeff and I want VEGAS. In caps…
MMM, this’ll get me in trouble but having seen the couple up-close, I think Ms. Hisson’s immobilized countenance looks the less appealing of the two, very Fembot-like. And no, I won’t call her “Mrs. Wynn” because there’s only one of those: Elaine Wynn, the lack of whose counsel is already starting to be felt, in my opinion.
Mr. Wynn’s propensity to think out loud may be starting to hurt him, as witness by the muddle of PokerStars-related contradictions he dumped on Chris Sieroty. The “socialism” theme is starting to sound like a broken record, too, especially coming from someone who builds leased casinos on government-owned land in Communist China, where he pays a 39% tax rate.
Did anyone see David Stockman’s appearance on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” last Sunday? It’s worth looking up because Stockman gives extremely cogent explanations of those same, ominous debt-related issues at which Wynn has been flailing at like an invisible piñata, in an atypical instance of verbal imprecision.
Hey, I’ve always liked Steve Wynn and consider him a real visionary (unlike Trump) — it’s just that I think he has looked a bit unhinged occasionally over the past few years. I have worked in PR and I’ve never seen an executive, politician or other powerful person who could not benefit by thinking more and talking less when they get really excited. Wynn, like all mortals, needs someone in his life or company who can tell him to take a time out every now and then.
He had someone like that. Her name was Elaine Wynn. Steve dumped her. Twice.