Viva Las Vegas!

If Las Vegas is a self-conscious teenager, then Steve Wynn is an overbearing father trying to steer his kid toward maturity. But while Wynn bellows, "Come on, son, smarten up!" the misguided Vegas keeps rebelling.

In Sin City's infancy, Wynn nurtured the Golden Nugget into a lucrative trouble-making child star, sort of what Jaid Barrymore did with her daughter Drew. Then, with the Mirage and Treasure Island, Papa Wynn helped turn the city into an obnoxious, attention-seeking ham.

Now, Father Vegas has announced his new "classy" offspring with the unveiling of Wynn Las Vegas at the end of April. Boasting a price tag of $2.7 billion, the casino resort has 2,400 rooms, a golf course, obligatory wedding chapel, and a force of European-trained bomb-sniffing dogs. But can a desert city known to be dirty, sexy, tacky, and outrageous really morph into a sophisticated creature that easily?