The Rogers committee voiced fears that the two companies were enabling Chinese state surveillance, although it acknowledged that it had obtained no actual evidence that the firms had implanted their routers and other systems with surveillance devices.
In honor of the 25th anniversary Blu-ray release of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (which is in the running for the best film ever directed by Robert Zemeckis) I was given the extreme pleasure of interviewing the voice of Roger Rabbit himself, Charles Fleischer.
It's noticeably different, missing the opening Speak to Me and the voices of Roger the Hat and co, but including the odd sound of David Gilmour scat singing on Any Colour You Like.
Roger, a walkie-talkie-style voice messaging app that launched in late 2015, has landed a $1 million seed round led by Social Capital.
The Skinny: I got my copy of the new Roger Ailes biography "The Loudest Voice in the Room" and did what any media reporter does when a new book comes out on someone they have covered.
In the voice of Mr. Rogers, the shrink stand-in provides a gentle therapeutic environment for the child to express his issues and work out his problems.
Charles Fleischer: Unlike other voice over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was a time factor, so my voice was recorded live on the set.
It was an accident that I ended up in Roger & Me, and I won't bore you with that story, but people want to hear the voice of a person.
