Through this oblique sight gag, Wright evokes the image of Warren Beatty as notorious bank - robber Clyde Barrow, losing a lens in
his glasses mere moments before he and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) meet their fate under police gunfire.
Mere moments after I entered the quaint art - laden lobby of this beachy hotel I was offered a complimentary
glass of Champagne in the adjacent wine lounge, with its entry point framed in hand blown Murano
glass, in presumed celebration of the memorable stay about to unfold.