Walt Disney Concert Hall - Pop Culture

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• The Hall was spoofed in The Simpsons episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch"; Gehry voiced himself in the episode where the town of Springfield had him design a new Concert Hall for the town. The Concert Hall was then transformed into a jail by Mr. Burns. The character Snake eventually escapes from the prison while saying, "No Frank Gehry-designed prison can hold me!"
• The first ever movie premiere at the concert hall was in 2003, when The Matrix Revolutions held its world premiere.
• The Hall is featured in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
• In the opening moments of "Day 6" of 24, a suicide bomber destroyed a bus in the vicinity of the Concert Hall.
• The Concert Hall held Ellen DeGeneres co-hosting for American Idol during the special week of Idol Gives Back. Rascal Flatts, Kelly Clarkson, and Il Divo performed here.
• This building was also used in the Iron Man (2008 release) movie briefly for a party for Stark Industries.
• The finale of the 2008 movie Get Smart was filmed at the Concert Hall.
• In the promotion picture for the television series Shark, the cast is standing in front of the Concert Hall.
• In the original pilot of the US TV remake of Life On Mars, the Hall features prominently in the sequence where Sam travels back to 1972. It is an emblem of the ultra-modern landscape that Sam is about to leave behind.
• On Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis was preparing foods for her family and friends before she went there.
• "One Hour", a 3rd season episode of NUMB3RS, extensively features the concert hall. The action begins outside the hall, and after a long series of events around town, the FBI winds up going inside the hall in order to rescue a young boy from his captors.
• It is heavily used and an important building in the 2009 film, The Soloist.
• Filming was done on location at the Concert Hall for a fictional Boomkat music video in the CW's Melrose Place.
• The ABC show "Brothers and Sisters" often shows an exterior shot of Senator Robert McCallister's office that includes the concert hall. Also, Kitty proposed to Robert at a fund raiser held at the hall.
• It was featured in the 2007 film, Alvin and the Chipmunks.