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J Jonah Jameson: Parker! You're fired!
Receptionist: The planetarium.
(Jonah stops Peter)
J Jonah Jameson: Wait! You're unfired! Come here.
The man who made those gravel-voiced high-pitched growls famous is J K Simmons, who bullied Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker, as the grouchy newspaper editor, J Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man movies.
In a quirky interview with People magazine, the 49-year-old Simmons recalls his own worst boss: 'The guy [at] my first job after college, with that oh-so-valuable degree in music, [when] I moved to Seattle and got a job at a used car lot. Basically, my job was to wash cars in the rain. That's what my boss had me doing. I was the 'lot boy.' And of course, in Seattle, it rains 90 percent of the time."
He also said, 'You know what? He wasn't that bad. I haven't had any terrible bosses. I've had terrible jobs.'