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The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), an enjoyable piece of romantic fluff in which worldly millionaire thief Steve McQueen matched wits with brittle insurance investigator Faye Dunaway.
Before graduating from Loyola Law School in 1993, Zucker interviewed with a prestigious Santa Monica law firm and deftly matched wits with the partners over lunch at an upscale restaurant.
There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Holmes was wrong about this and that FDR, unserious in college, had the supplest of political wits about him.
The threat of litigation tends to scare Chatterbox out of his wits, and by now Chatterbox wasn't at all sure he wanted to press ahead.