take architect frank gehry. >> frank gehry: eli is a control freak. i worked on a house for him.t to do it. >> safer: why didn't you want to do it? >> gehry: i just told him i didn't like him. he said, "you'll learn to like me." >> safer: broad fired gehry, then built the house anyway using gehry's drawings. >> broad: after two years and seven different models, i was impatient. i think he wanted to spend another year or two designing it. and i said, "frank, a work of art is never finished, it's only abandoned." >> safer: they worked together again three years later to build disney hall. and once again, broad fired gehry. but he had to eat humble pie when the disney family insisted that he hire gehry back. >> gehry: we did it; we built it. we weren't friends. >> safer: you've made your peace with him at the same time you've...? >> gehry: i won't do a project for him, that's true. >> christopher knight: eli's middle name is "strings attached"-- eli "strings attached" broad. >> safer: christopher knight, the art critic for the "los angeles times," has been broad watching for years.