("Long Arm of Hitler Extends to Hollywood Studio," read a 1937 headline in Newsweek).
He also likes making music in their home studio, reading mind-blowing books and, invariably, staying up until dawn.
The person who green-lit the movie apparently didn't have the ability to do that, and the president of the studio read it.
His other collaborations on the road and in the studio read like a Who's Who of the indie-love firmament: Jenny Lewis, Cat Power, Neko Case, the White Stripes.
She ran a bookshop, worked for a Hollywood studio, reading scripts, and was involved in a film about Yippies, called "Steal This Movie", due to be shown in America sometime this year.
"Marvel and Edgar Wright jointly announced today that the studio and director have parted ways on Ant-Man due to differences in their vision of the film," a statement issued by the studio read.
In June, 2009, Columbia Pictures pulled the plug on the movie four days before it was set to start filming, because Amy Pascal, the head of the studio, "read a rewrite that Soderbergh did to Steven Zaillian's script and found it very different from the earlier scripts she championed".
They could help people who have lost their voices speak again, captivate gamers in virtual worlds, direct lost drivers and enable dead celebrities to speak from beyond the grave.Mr Baker spent 11 days in a recording studio, reading nearly 12,000 sentences, to generate all the sounds needed to enable his voice to render any message.
As my colleague Brian Stelter points out, local news is still a powerful driver of profits, especially in battleground states during election years, but not if costs have been cut to the point where an anchor is sitting in a studio reading the newspaper over commodity video.
The people who walk the streets of Liberty City are always talking, making random comments like "I've got an itch," or "He ain't no gentleman, that one" or "Damn police," and I spent some time in a recording studio reading some of these lines.
