'In their hurry to get to the Plaza Hotel (a secure symbol of material success and luxury), he lies about his secretary's physical condition and rudely, irresponsibly, and inconsiderately commandeers a taxicab for both of them from another waiting customer.[Michael later learned that scheming NY mafia patriarch Don Altobello (Eli Wallach) had partnered with Joey Zasa to eliminate him and other uncooperative crime leaders.At Pinehurst, Jake and Robin were watching a movie on television,A Place in the Sun (1954).[It was the scene in which poor-boy Montgomery Clift was rowing out onto a lake, contemplating the murder of his pregnant girlfriend Shelley Winters.Both bedevil each other and try to stir up the engagements each of hem start to develop with other suitors/mates, as the clock ticks oward the finality of their divorce.