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September 7, 2011
Frank Gehry Really, Really Regrets His Guest Appearance on The Simpsons
NY Observer
by Matt Chaban
Because of his successful style, Frank Gehry sometimes comes under criticism for being a hack whose buildings all look the same—even if in their 50th iteration, those waving bands of metal still look amazing, fresh and different. This sensibility was, like so many other things, immortalized on The Simpsons, in which Mr. Gehry was perhaps the first and only architect to ever make a guest appearance—an appearance that still haunts him to this day.
Mr. Gehry was on Fahreed Zakaria’s CNN program GPS yesterday, where he complained about how a throwaway joke (literally!) on The Simpsons has dogged his career ever since.
Click through for Gehry's typically nearly incomprehensible explanation — and here to watch the infamous Simpson's episode in question.
Posted by eric at September 7, 2011 11:17 AM