His own producers agreed to fund a movie that feels very much his own, which is wonderful even given a few fumbles that could have used an outside voice piping up.

Blake did say he was seeking an assistant to add to Hiller’s staff for another outside voice.

Ours might be the project manager who schedules mandatory one-hour meetings when he knows an email would do just fine or the neighbor in the next cubicle who conducts all her personal conversations with her outside voice.

Harrell said he understood why, at the beginning of the consent decree, the city would have benefited from an outside voice to “bring meaningful, significant ideas on situational change,” but that didn’t dictate his decision 10 years later.

Yet their six-person committee that waded through the options came to the conclusion that an outside voice was necessary.