When she (seemingly) persuades him to negotiate an end, his point is proven when Eddy stubbornly refuses to make any deal. However, while Vicki is clearly closing in on Thomas, using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as leverage against his liquid assets, he forces her to realize that she is also becoming hemmed-in by her emotions. She tries putting Erwin in the same room as Thomas, but there is no hint of recognition on either one's part. Vicki finds out that he was hired by a man he never saw, but whose voice he heard (via a microphone). Their relationship soon evolves into an affair, complicated by Vicki's vow to find the money and help detective Eddy Malone bring the guilty party to justice.Ī reward offer entices the wife of the bank robbery's getaway driver, Erwin Weaver to "fink" on him for $25,000 ($194,809 in 2021 dollars ). They start a game of cat and mouse, with the attraction between them evident. ![]() Vicki makes it clear to him that she knows that he is the thief and that she intends to prove it. Thomas does not need the money, and in fact masterminded the robbery as a game. When Thomas first comes to her attention as a possible suspect, she intuitively recognizes him as the mastermind behind the robbery, and shortly thereafter guesses that he organized the robbers so none of the men knew him or met each other. Independent insurance investigator Vicki Anderson is contracted to investigate the heist she will receive 10% of the stolen money if she recovers it. ![]() He deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as not to draw undue attention to his actions. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can after secretly following the driver of the getaway car. None of the men ever meet Crown face to face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown accomplishes a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank ($20,731,748 in 2021 dollars ), along with a fifth man who drives the getaway car with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song for Michel Legrand's " The Windmills of Your Mind". Sadly he had to face the sudden demise of his son who died by committing suicide.Īfter he divorced his first wife, he married his girlfriend who is the president of Fox News Channel Kim Hume The couple has two biological children and one child from Kim's first marriage.The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed and produced by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. He had one son from his first marriage who was also a famous journalist. Brit Hume's Personal Lifeīrit Hume has been married twice in his life. Previously, he worked for ABC where he earned nearly $1.5 per annum. His salary per annum is $2 million from Fox News Network. Brit Hume's Net Worthīrit Hume has an estimated net worth of $14 million which makes him one of the richest Fox News journalist. In 1996, Brit Hume left ABC and joined Fox News Network and became Fox News's Washington managing editor. ![]() He was assigned to report on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign and George H.W. He received his first Academy Award nomination for his work for ABC's Close-Up documentary program. Hume joined ABC News in 1973 as a consultant and in 1976, he was offered a job as a correspondent. ![]() Later, he became Washington editor of MORE magazine, a press criticism journal. Then he served for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972. Brit Hume's Careerīrit Hume first worked for The Hartford Times newspaper company and later for United Press International and the newspaper Baltimore Evening Sun. Albans School in Washington, D.C and in 1965 he completed his graduation from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English. His father is part of Scottish descent so he belongs to mixed ethnicity. to Virginia Powell Hume and George Graham Hume. Brit Hume was born as Alexander Britton Hume on June 22, 1943, in Washington, D.C., US.
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