A Rainy Day in New York

Gatsby Welles is a student at Yardley College and the son of wealthy New York City-based parents. Yardley has no special appeal to him, though he continues to attend because of his girlfriend Ashleigh, who is a rich student from Tucson. Ashleigh is traveling into New York to interview filmmaker Roland Pollard for the college paper. Gatsby tags along to show Ashleigh around the city, planning romantic visits in order to avoid his parents, who are planning an Autumn Gala in the evening. When Ashleigh goes to interview Pollard, he invites her to a screening of his new film, ruining her plans with Gatsby. Instead, he strolls alone through New York, and bumps into a student director friend who asks him to stand in for a missing actor in a test shoot for a screen kiss. Gatsby is surprised the actress turns out to be the younger sister of a previous girlfriend. He enjoys the kiss but tells Chan he is involved with someone. They prepare for a second screen test kiss when prompted by the student director. He attempts to call Ashleigh but gets annoyed when Pollard, his writer Ted Davidoff, and one of his stars keep Ashleigh busy.