We're very pleased to have Planet Hollywood as an integral part of the Aladdin project,

Just refurbishing the old Aladdin, maybe add some parking garages, it would have been a poor use of the property. From a real-estate perspective, a mixed-use development, including gaming and retail, was necessary.

The Aladdin will be the maximum highest and best use of the property, ... It would have been a crime for the trust to use the property to cannibalize on neighboring attractions.

We live in a world of skeptics, don't we? ... We didn't come into this to prove ourselves.

The woes in Hollywood always stem from the same thing. And that's the product that's out there. People turn out for good movies. They just didn't see as much that caught their attention.

Obviously, he never wrote a word for us. We're a one-town newspaper, which has very little touch with Hollywood.