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Article: BROSNAN WEARS `CROWN' WELL.(L.A. LIFE) (movie review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- August 6, 1999
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic
Probably the closest juvenilized, modern Hollywood is going to get to a real adult caper film for a while, ``The Thomas Crown Affair'' doesn't always juggle cool and heat adroitly. But the fact that it even tries, with measured, mature deliberateness, places this one in a whole higher grade than the year's earlier, more frivolous attempt at high-stakes (he)art theft, ``Entrapment.''
The remake is also arguably an improvement on the original ``Crown Affair,'' the Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway artifact from 1968 that was more concerned with heists and visual gimmicks. Poorly as it may have aged, though, the ``Crown'' concept ...