In an upcoming issue of Time magazine, longtime Imagine Entertainment collaborator Russell Crowe confirms our greatest fears: Superproducer Brian Grazer's freaky, otherworldly powers are growing:

"In a conversation . . . he can hear your soul," Crowe says of Grazer. "He knows almost instantly how you really feel about something, and in Hollywood . . . that instinctive, savant-like skill gives him an alchemist power."

We can only hope that Grazer will use this newfound soul-hearing ability (he obtained the aforementioned alchemist power years ago by eating a piece of the preserved brain of 14th-century scrivener Nicholas Flamel, which has since allowed him to transform the lead of other people's half-developed ideas into box office gold) for good, not evil; should he choose to explore its dark side by further manipulating the clearly mesmerized Crowe into unleashing his barely controlled rage against Grazer's enemies, there would be no stopping the spikey-haired Svengali.