{"id":3045,"date":"2010-05-04T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2010-05-06T09:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T17:39:01","slug":"marina-bay-sands-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/marina-bay-sands-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Marina Bay Sands Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWelcome to soothing, serene Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>, in Singapore<\/strong>, where good feelings were the order of the day when Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> soft-opened the megaresort as only CEO Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s flunkies can …
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\n… complete with luxurious transportation …
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\n… to the 90% unfinished mall ([in]complete with faux<\/em> Venetian canal; some things never change). Looks an awful lot like a European railway station, doesn’t it?
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\nNotice anything lacking? Like a sense of … oh, maybe excitement<\/em>? This is the most sedate casino opening I’ve ever beheld.
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\nYou might say it looks like an average afternoon on the Strip. At least one patron isn’t down with this whole “soft opening” shtick:
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\nAnd for those of you who are up on your Malaysian<\/span> Mandarin, here’s a much lengthier report. Judging by the “blah” look of the meeting rooms and the seemingly cramped hotel quarters, $6.9<\/span> $5.9 billion<\/strong> doesn’t buy what it once did …
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