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Steven Spielberg ready for anything

Steven Spielberg is so paranoid about security at his office, he keeps a never-used motorcycle permanently parked outside in case he needs to make a getaway, a new book about DreamWorks claims.

In “The Men Who Would Be King,” due May 4 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, former Variety scribe Nicole LaPorte writes of the “Schindler’s List” director, “His passion for secrecy sometimes suggests a burgeoning near-paranoia.”

Among LaPorte’s claims:

* “In Spielberg’s office, hanging above his desk, a plexiglass half-moon keeps sound from reverberating so that his phone conversations remain ultra-confidential. When an assistant once asked what the funny thing over Spielberg’s desk was, a security guard referred to it as a ‘dome of silence.’ ”

* “When . . . Spielberg’s longtime editor views footage in the screening room, a black cloth is draped over the projection booth window to hide the screen.”

* “Every document that leaves the office — a script, development report, even a memo — is coded, so that should it somehow get into the wrong hands . . . the person responsible for the breach can be identified.”

* “When Spielberg isn’t at [his office], live-cam images are streamed to his home. There are also measures to protect against earthquakes or attacks, as Spielberg believes in being prepared . . . At one point, employees were given survival kits including gas masks and other amenities.”

LaPorte says that none of DreamWorks’ three founders — Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen — would talk, but that she conducted nearly 200 interviews with current and former employees.

Spielberg’s rep said: “This description is so far from the real world of Steven that it doesn’t deserve a comment. If the rest of the book is like this excerpt, readers can expect very little of what they read to be true.”