THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR opens. Directed by John McTiernan. Written by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer. From a story by Alan Trustman. Sleek, silken, haute coutured to the gills remake of 1968 Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway starrer with Pierce Brosnan as rich art-thieving playboy shedding clothes & innuendoes with Rene Russo's seductive insurance investigator. With Denis Leary.