RaviSez

Yesterday I read this amazing incident in The New Yorker. Apparently, Steve Wynn --owner of the Wynn casino in Las Vegas, poked a hole with his elbow to La Reve, Picasso's painting of his mistress. He bought it for several million dollars and had just sold it to another art collector for $139 million. I called it an amazing incident not because of the extent of damage caused to the expensive painting; it was his reaction after the damage had been done. He had just lost several million dollars because of an accident and he was pretty cool about it. Later he took his friend's out to dinner:

A few hours later, they all met for dinner, and Wynn was in a cheerful mood. “My feeling was, It’s a picture, it’s my picture, we’ll fix it. Nobody got sick or died. It’s a picture. It took Picasso five hours to paint it.” Mary Boies ordered a six-litre bottle of Bordeaux, and when it was empty she had everyone sign the label, to commemorate the calamitous afternoon. Wynn signed it “Mary, it’s all about scale—Steve.”

That's it. He said, "Nobody got sick or died," when he had just poked a hole in a $139 million dollars painting. How cool is that? Is there a better way to handle an crises except when people are actually dying or getting sick? Isn't that the best answer for all the crises? You see what you can fix in a bad situation and then move on. I like this Steve Wynn guy.