U.S. casino magnate gives Picasso's dream the elbow

[MaNuMaNiAc]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/od_nm/picasso1_dc

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.
Wynn had just finalized a $139 million sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.

Director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, who witnessed and related the incident in her blog on the Huffington Post Web site (www.huffingtonpost.com), said Wynn had raised his hand to show the group something about Picasso's 1932 portrait of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter.

"At that moment, his elbow crashed backward right through the canvas. There was a terrible noise," Ephron wrote, noting that Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision.

"Smack in the middle ... was a black hole the size of a silver dollar. 'Oh s---,' he said. 'Look what I've done. Thank goodness it was me.'"

Wynn's office on Tuesday confirmed the story, an account of which also appeared in this week's The New Yorker. Both accounts said Wynn had decided to release the buyer from the sale agreement and to repair and keep the painting himself.

Wynn, a millionaire casino developer and art collector, developed The Mirage and Bellagio resorts in Las Vegas in the 1990s, which spearheaded a profusion of luxury hotels and casinos on the once-seedy Las Vegas Strip

Clumsy motherf...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/od_nm/picasso1_dc

Clumsy motherf...

Yeah, I'm sure it was him being clumsy and nothing to do with his vision problems.

[Phil Hellmuth]

I love how they make up a medical excuse.

lol

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Whatever it is, I've always loved that painting.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Yeah, I'm sure it was him being clumsy and nothing to do with his vision problems.

It was a joke, you twit

[jman3000]

if anything they should have blamed it on whatever my anthropology teacher had... she had something that gave her almost zero depth perception and she said she either stops really really far from a stop light or past it.... sucker.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

if anything they should have blamed it on whatever my anthropology teacher had... she had something that gave her almost zero depth perception and she said she either stops really really far from a stop light or past it.... sucker.

I'm clumsy as all , but I've never broken anything worth more than a few bucks. Can't imagine what it must feel to wreck a 130 million dollar painting Plus there is the embarassment of it being so public a screw up

[Kori Ellis]

poked a finger-sized hole

his elbow crashed backward right through the canvas

a black hole the size of a silver dollar

So is the guy's elbow as big as a finger? Or his finger as big as a silver dollar?

[Mixability]

It was a joke, you twit

calling someone a mother er is a joke?

Are you the second coming of Andrew Dice Clay?

Moving on, if I had that vision problem, I wouldn't be anywhere near anything that expensive.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

calling someone a mother er is a joke?

Are you the second coming of Andrew Dice Clay?

Moving on, if I had that vision problem, I wouldn't be anywhere near anything that expensive.

... man! lead is less dense than you buddy

calling someone a mother er is a joke?

apparently you've never seen Bernie Mack's stand up

[Mixability]

... man! lead is less dense than you buddy


apparently you've never seen Bernie Mack's stand up

calling an old guy with vision problems a mother er is ok in your book?

oh nevermind, you're the one who laughs when someones child dies.






Yeah, it ALL comes back to that.

And I'm sure Bernie Macks standup consists of more substance than cussing the entire show, if not, every person with Tourettes syndrome would have they're own sitcom by now.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

calling an old guy with vision problems a mother er is ok in your book?

oh nevermind, you're the one who laughs when someones child dies.

Yeah, it ALL comes back to that.

oh , I give up, you're too stupid to have an argument with

And I'm sure Bernie Macks standup consists of more substance than cussing the entire show, if not, every person with Tourettes syndrome would have they're own sitcom by now.

you've OBVIOUSLY haven't seen a Bernie Mack stand up

congrats, first person to ever make it to my ignore list bro

[Mixability]

oh , I give up, you're too stupid to have an argument with

you've OBVIOUSLY haven't seen a Bernie Mack stand up

congrats, first person to ever make it to my ignore list bro

Stupid Mother er.






















I'm the stupid one? I'd look up all your posts displaying your stupidity, but I don't have enough time.

So, Bernie Mac got a sitcom based on his ability to cuss? Why even bother watching his show then?

Thanks for adding me!