This TV spot has been out a while but I didn’t chance upon it until I was home yesterday, nursing a Combo Meal of maladies. Isn’t it nice that that the oversexed young couple has 4,000-room Aria all to themselves? This is certainly taking “truth in advertising” to new levels of candor.
As for those who say that Aria offers only one (Viva Elvis™) show, surely you jest! Betcha those diners at Jean-Philippe Patisserie didn’t know they were getting a Suge Knight floor show along with their pastries.
How to buy your dragon. Do you remember those surplus Kirin dragons that recently went on the auction block? MGM Resorts International spokesman Alan Feldman generously gives S&G what the late Paul Harvey liked to call “the rest [pause] of the story”: [W]hen the statues arrived, they were of unacceptable quality. Not to delve into too much detail, but in some cases bids are received with drawings or photos, approved on that basis, and don’t end up working out. In this case, as we only need three or four of them (as opposed to 400 chairs or 3,000 beds) no samples were done in advance. We simply went to another vendor and received the proper pieces before opening.
Moral: Never buy a dragon sight unseen.
Hey, don’t be hating on my man Alan Feldman. He’s the complete master of supplication, the gold, silver and bronze of the art of saying asbsolutely nothong while talking.
Dude’s the Muhammad Saeed al-Shahaf of the industry. Respect.