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"I've got a few men I respect very much and one would be Frank Gehry," Brad Pitt told Vanity Fair, regarding the world-reknowned architect whose shiny Dr. Seussian creations, such as our own Walt Disney Concert Hall, have become arguably the most admired and spoken about structures of our time. The two are reportedly "close friends" as well as teacher and apprentice. Newsweek sat down with Gehry recently, and asked him about his unlikely confrere:

Gehry: He came by the office [...], and some body here took a picture of him leaning over the model next to me. I don t know how it got into the press. My guys didn t do it. Somebody took that picture he must have sent it to somebody or we must have inadvertently sent it to somebody. From that day, I ve never heard from him.


Newsweek: You ve never heard from him?

Gehry: Never. [Laughs.]

Newsweek Well, he s been busy. And hadn t he been in your office before that for some period of weeks, sort of apprenticing?

Gehry: Nope. He s been to my office twice. Once he called and asked if he could come, and somebody gave him a tour, and I met him for two minutes. And then this time, this second time. And I went to dinner with him after that, with Jennifer [Aniston, Pitt's former wife].

Isn't it always the way? It seems like a great idea at first, using your celebrity to rub elbows with the finest minds on the planet. But then, somewhere around the soup course, when the lumpy man across from you is droning on about how the "DeCon movement flies in the face of conventional urbanistic function," you start glancing at your watch and mulling the career implications of doing a Biblical action adventure for your next role. Buildings, after all, can be torn down; but Joshua will last forever.