After that, he'll take on a a more complex project, one which has been in the works for a while: Paul Giamatti, Sacha Baron Cohen and Reese Witherspoon have all committed to starring in "Downsizing," a social satire in which Giamatti's character realizes he would have a better life if he shrank himself.
It's kind of like what Ant-Man might see if he kept shrinking and shrinking within a realm of mathematics and possibilities.
It began with his relatively quiet fourth quarters in the first three games, and gained momentum when a columnist asked James, after Game 3, if he was "shrinking" from the challenge.
On that hot July 4th, his uniform rippled in the breeze, as if he were shrinking inside his Yankee flannels.
Downsizing is described as a social satire in which a man "realises he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself".
After James's team, the Miami Heat, won Game 3 of the N.B.A. Finals, Gregg Doyel, a CBS Sports reporter, asked him if he had been "shrinking" with the game on the line in the fourth quarter.
H. Carl McCall, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, pledged yesterday that if elected he will shrink class sizes for young students to no more than 18 children and spend $8 billion more on education by the end of his first term.
"If they grow, their income grows; if they shrink, their income shrinks".
"If they shrink the field, I can't wait to see what their E.R.A. will be next year.
And though Mr. Immelt may be lagging Mr. Pandit, if he remains committed to shrinking he is unlikely to hear many boos at his annual investor presentation today.
