Humour:
10 Reasons Steve Wynn May Close the Art Gallery
at his Las Vegas Resort
10. Grew tired of people asking,
'Where's the black velvet 'Elvis With a Tear'?
9. Calculated
that his casino was losing $173,485.61 every
minute visitors spent gawking at the paintings
instead of playing the slots or blackjack
8.
Cocktail waitress spilled a vodka on a $12 million
Renoir
7.
Sadly learned that the average tourist is more
interested in the Blue Man Group than Picasso's
Blue Period
6.
Retaliation over snobby art critics' refusal
to declare his caricature of Wayne Newton a
masterpiece
5.
If you want to see nudes in Vegas, you go to
La Femme or Palomino, not an art gallery to
look at a painting of some 19th century chicks
sitting on a picnic blanket in the woods
4.
Disappointed that the salad bar in the Impressionist
wing never took off
3.
Body painting booth to attract hip younger patrons
drew backlash from arts purists
2.
Frustrated over constantly being confused with
the "Starving Artists -- No Painting Over
$29.95" show at the Las Vegas Convention
Center
1.
Steve and Elaine really need the Van Gogh to
cover a nasty water spot on their living room
wall -- Barry M. Horstman
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