query: what films have taylor lautner been in?

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Taylor Lautner Taylor Lautner (; born February 11, 1992) is an American actor, voice actor, and model. He is known for playing Jacob Black in "The Twilight Saga" film series based on the novels of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Lautner began his acting career playing bit roles in comedy series such as "The Bernie Mac Show" (2003) and "My Wife and Kids" (2004), before having voice roles in television series like "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" (2005) and "Danny Phantom" (2005). In 2005, he appeared in the film "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" and starred in "The Adventures of Sharkboy

title: Taylor Lautner

text: especially via the "Team Edward vs. Team Jacob" campaign that promoted the film. Lautner's fanbase also began to expand to older audiences. Lautner won Best Fantasy Actor at the 2010 Scream Awards, and he is nominated for Favorite Movie Actor for his role in "Eclipse" at the 37th People's Choice Awards. In November 2010 "The Hollywood Reporter" named Lautner as one of the young male actors who are "pushing – or being pushed" into taking over Hollywood as the new "A-List". Lautner was initially supposed to be in two films, "Northern Lights" and a movie based on Max Steel, but

title: Taylor Lautner

text: pulled out of both films due to scheduling conflicts and better offers. Other planned projects were the lead in a movie about Stretch Armstrong and a hostage thriller, "Cancun". Lautner filmed a "Bourne Identity"-esque spy film with Lily Collins, entitled "Abduction". It was released in September 2011 to universally negative reviews from critics and Lautner's performance was heavily criticised. He appeared in the remaining parts of the "Twilight" series, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" films, which were released over a two-year period from 2011–2012. In 2010, Lautner was considered to be the highest-paid teen actor in Hollywood. In February 2014,

title: Taylor Lautner

text: spent three months on location in Austin, Texas, to film the movie, which was received with negative reviews from critics, and was a minor international success. However, Lautner was nominated at the 2006 Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Feature Film by a Leading Actor. For the film, Lautner choreographed all of his fight scenes after director Robert Rodríguez learned of his extensive martial arts training. Months later, he played Eliot Murtaugh in "Cheaper by the Dozen 2", which was panned by critics, being named one of the "Worst Films of the 2000s" by Rotten Tomatoes. After returning

title: Taylor Lautner

text: after moving to Los Angeles, Lautner appeared in small television roles, small film roles, and ads and commercials. In 2001, Lautner first appeared in the made-for-television film, "Shadow Fury". He then got a voice-over job in a commercial for "Rugrats Go Wild". He then appeared in small television roles on "The Bernie Mac Show", "My Wife and Kids", and "Summerland". Lautner then earned voice-over roles in animated series such as "Danny Phantom", "Duck Dodgers", and "What's New, Scooby-Doo?". The same year, he earned his first breakout role, starring in the film, "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D". Lautner

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Moon" is the third highest opening weekend in domestic history with $142,839,137. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" also has the sixth highest worldwide opening weekend with $274.9 million total. Critical reception was less favorable, with the movie getting a 4.6/10 average from Rotten Tomatoes, and a 44 on Metacritic. Lautner won Favorite Breakout Movie Actor at the 35th People's Choice Awards. Although it began after the release of the first film, upon release of "New Moon", Lautner and his co-stars Stewart and Pattinson transitioned to teen idol status, with Lautner particularly admired by teens for his new physical characteristics, becoming

title: Taylor Lautner

text: from Canada filming the latter movie, Lautner said he realized his newfound fame, from "Sharkboy and Lavagirl". In 2006 he appeared in the show "Love Inc." and the TV special "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown". Two years later, Lautner appeared in a lead role in the short-lived NBC drama, "My Own Worst Enemy", portraying Christian Slater's son, Jack Spivey. "Rolling Stone" coined his early roles as either "the popular kid, jock, or bully." In 2007, filmmakers began a search for actors to portray Jacob Black, a Native American friend of lead character Bella Swan in "Twilight", the first film in

title: Taylor Lautner

text: and Lavagirl in 3-D". He also starred in the 2011 action film "Abduction". Since 2013, Lautner has starred in the BBC sitcom "Cuckoo" as the son of the titular main character. In 2016, he joined the main cast of FOX black comedy series "Scream Queens" as Dr. Cassidy Cascade, joining in the second series. The late 2000s saw Lautner become a teen idol and sex symbol, after extensively changing his physique to keep the role of Jacob Black in further "Twilight" installments, and generating media attention for his looks. In 2010, he was ranked second on "Glamour"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "The 50 Sexiest

title: Taylor Lautner

text: that and not his actual acting skill. In an interview, the actor revealed that he was originally supposed to have a baring scene in the movie "Valentine's Day". He stated, "The script said we were walking into school and Willy takes off his shirt. I said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out. He's gonna take off his shirt in the middle of school? No, no, no. The reason I took off my shirt for "New Moon" is because it's written in the book that way. And there's reasons behind it." Lautner later said he would not bare his chest for any

title: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D

text: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (also known simply as Sharkboy and Lavagirl) is a 2005 American adventure film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez and originally released in the United States on June 10, 2005 by Miramax Films, Columbia Pictures and Dimension Films. The film uses the anaglyph 3-D technology, similar to the one used in "" (2003). The film stars Taylor Lautner, Taylor Dooley, Cayden Boyd, David Arquette, Kristin Davis and George Lopez. Many of the concepts and much of the story were conceived by Rodriguez's children. The special effects

title: Ki Theory

text: has been featured on various television programs, including "The Following", "Top Gear", "", "First Ascent" for the National Geographic International Channel, National Geographic Wild's 2011 TV series "Killer Shots," and MTV's "Teen Mom 2". His songs have appeared in commercials for Converse, Billabong, Gap and Audi, the video game trailer Electronic Arts game FIFA 14, the trailer for the film "Abduction" starring Taylor Lautner and Sigourney Weaver directed by John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood), as well as in numerous films and videos games including EA's and WINtA. Ki:Theory DJed for fashion designer Betsey Johnson during Fall 2010 and Spring

title: Taylor Lautner

text: critics credit Lautner's physical characteristics for much of the success of the "Twilight" series, with critic Sharon Waxman stating, "as a tabloid teen idol, he certainly deserves some credit for "New Moon's" $700 million worldwide gross." Lautner's abs in particular have been subject to media attention, with "The Wrap" stating that companies bidding for the actor in movies in 2011 would "shell out for the young actor's much-on-display though mostly untried abs." Mickey Rapkin of "GQ" said, "the film's marketing issues were solved when Lautner's "abdominal muscles became "New Moon"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main talking point, not to mention his calling card." He

title: Jacob Black

text: larger Jacob Black." In an attempt to keep the role, Lautner stated, "I have been working out. I've been working out since the day we finished filming "Twilight". I just weighed myself today; I've put on 19 pounds ... [and] I'm guaranteeing Weitz 11 more [pounds] by filming." Lautner would continue to play the role of Jacob in "New Moon", and all the subsequent films. He also did his own stunts. Many fans of the Twilight franchise, particularly teenagers, have debated whether Edward or Jacob is the better match for Bella. Both sides of the debate have coalesced around informal

title: Taylor Lautner

text: with the lawn." He owns a BMW 5 series, with dark-tinted windows intended to provide anonymity. The boost given to his career by the success of the "Twilight" films made him too busy to attend school, so he took the California High School Proficiency Exam to graduate from high school in 2008. He has stated on "Late Show with David Letterman" that if he does not have work, he would like to go back to school. In 2010, he stated that "I finished high school and enrolled in my local community college". Taylor Lautner Taylor Lautner (; born February 11,

title: Taylor Lautner

text: a sex symbol. The trio appeared on many covers and televised appearances together. In between the second and third films in the "Twilight" series, Lautner was a part of the ensemble cast in the movie "Valentine's Day" as Willy Harrington, acting alongside his rumored girlfriend at the time, American country pop singer Taylor Swift. The duo was nominated at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards for Best Kiss. Although it received generally negative reviews, the film grossed $213 million and had the second biggest opening in the United States for a romantic comedy film. Lautner presented at the 2009 MTV Video

title: Taylor Lautner

text: impress the boys with his rugged agility." According to Mickey Rapkin of "GQ", the use of Lautner's physique in films has been compared to Megan Fox in her work. After his massive physical change following "Twilight", Lautner became a tabloid teen idol with his co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Lautner, determined to stay in the series, worked out every day and gained over of muscle in order to bulk up for the role of Jacob Black in the remaining films in "The Twilight Saga". Michelle Lanz of MSN Wonderwall said that Lautner's change may have saved his career. Several

title: Taylor Lautner

text: it was confirmed that Lautner would be joining the BBC Three comedy series "Cuckoo", replacing Andy Samberg. Lautner has continued in this role, co-starring in the BBC comedy for three series. On June 23, 2016, it was announced that Lautner had been cast in the Ryan Murphy comedy horror series "Scream Queens". Publications such as "GQ", "Rolling Stone", and "People" have referred to Lautner as a sex symbol, with the latter publication calling the actor a future epitome of pop culture. He has been called the new young adult star that can "both woo the girls with his intensity and

title: Taylor Lautner

text: was named number one on Access Hollywood's "Top 5 Hollywood Abs" list. Before the actor turned 18, his sexualized image was often critiqued, and subject to controversy. In December 2009, Lautner appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone" in a wet T-shirt. Jennifer Cady of E! Online said to wait a few months when Lautner would "be of age, which will make this whole operation you got going on completely legal." In his interview with the magazine, after declining to talk about whether he was dating Taylor Swift, the magazine pressed Lautner on rumors of him being gay, which he

title: Taylor Lautner

text: role that did not call for it. In June 2010, Lautner covered "GQ" magazine. The actor was lampooned in conservative writer Laura Ingraham's satirical "The Obama Diaries", commenting to have Lautner as a mascot for the White House Easter Egg Roll, to fit their health-conscious theme, and have Lautner don a furry bunny head and appear shirtless. In 2010, Lautner was ranked number two on "Glamour"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "50 Sexiest Men of 2010 " list. "Men's Health" ranked him at third on their list of "Top 10 Summer Bodies." Additionally in 2010, he was ranked fourth on "People"<nowiki>'s</nowiki> "Most Amazing Bodies" list.

title: John Lautner

text: recognized the life and influence of the architect on what would have been his 100th birthday, by declaring July 16 John Lautner Day. A reception was held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, along with an exhibition and a panel discussion on Lautner’s legacy. John Lautner John Edward Lautner (16 July 1911 – 24 October 1994) was an American architect. Following an apprenticeship in the mid 1930s with Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner opened his own practice in 1938, where he would work for the remainder of his career. Lautner practiced primarily in California, and the majority of his

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Men of 2010" list, and fourth on "People"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Most Amazing Bodies" list. Also in the same year, Lautner was named the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood. Lautner was born on February 11, 1992, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Deborah and Daniel Lautner. His mother works for a software development company, while his father was a Midwest Airlines pilot. He has one younger sister named Makena. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Lautner has Austrian, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, and Swiss ancestry, and has stated that he has "distant" Native American ancestry (specifically Ottawa and Potawatomi) through his mother.

title: Taylor Lautner

text: brushed off. Brent Hartinger, a columnist for AfterElton, blasted the magazine, calling the questioning "unimaginably irresponsible," commenting that Lautner was just "a 17-year old kid" and that while the rumors were baseless and speculation from certain blogs and fans, it was disappointing that a "legitimate media outlet" would print gossip. Hartinger said the magazine reached a "new low" and did not have common decency, noting that the line between child and adult "is there for a good reason". Lautner has stated that he does not want to be just known for his looks, as some have attributed his popularity to

title: Taylor Lautner

text: deserved a lot of credit for the movie's box office, stating, "If you look at the movie, it should have been the weakest in the franchise, because Robert Pattinson doesn't play as big a role." Weitz said Lautner had to "pick up that slack, and if his character hadn't been emotionally, not just physically, appealing, the movie wouldn't have been as big a hit." The commercial performance of the film outpaced the first film, setting several box office records including the biggest midnight opening in the United States and Canada and the biggest single-day opening. The opening weekend of "New

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Lautner has an intricate workout plan, which was covered by "Men's Health", and has a specific diet after developing his body for "". In addition, he still practices and trains in martial arts regularly. He has stated that he is drug- and alcohol-free. Lautner resides with his parents and younger sister in Valencia, California, which he says he prefers because of the paparazzi. Lautner has said that he has never thought of moving out on his own, stating, "The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Music Awards and the 82nd Academy Awards. Lautner hosted "Saturday Night Live" on December 12, 2009, making him one of the youngest celebrity hosts in the show's history. Lautner returned for the third "Twilight" film, "", in 2010. Receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film surpassed its predecessor to become the highest-grossing film of the franchise and the highest-grossing romantic fantasy, werewolf and vampire movie of all time at the American and Canadian box office. It ranks as the 36th highest-grossing film of all-time in the U.S. and Canada. The popularity of Lautner and his cast members continued to summit,

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Ranger in "Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue", suggested to Lautner that he take up acting. For a few years, the Lautners flew from Michigan to Los Angeles for auditions when his talent agency called, and returned to Grand Rapids for school sometimes the same day. Lautner balanced karate and acting with being on the football and baseball teams at his school, and taking up jazz and hip-hop dance. After that became tiring, Lautner and his family decided to move to California for a month, to try it out, before moving to Santa Clarita, California, permanently in 2002. In his first months

title: Taylor Lautner

text: have an actor that would accurately portray "the new, larger Jacob Black." Black's role in the novel also increases significantly, with him falling in love with Bella and becoming a werewolf, putting the actor in a starring role. Representatives for Weitz had stated that they were make a full effort to recast the "high-profile gig," and MTV News confirmed that Weitz was looking at Michael Copon to take on the role; however, Summit Entertainment said a decision had not been made. In an attempt to keep the role, Lautner weight-trained extensively and gained approximately 30 pounds of muscle. In January

title: What Might Have Been

text: turns out to be his long, lost love, Clarice. As they reunite, the video flashes back to the younger Clarice and Nathan sharing a kiss. This version has been played on CMT, TNN and GAC, as well as CMT's sister channel, Pure Country. "What Might Have Been" debuted at number 72 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 29, 1993. What Might Have Been "What Might Have Been" is a song recorded by American country music group Little Texas. It was released in May 1993 as the lead-off single from their second (and

title: Taylor Lautner

text: He grew up in Hudsonville, Michigan, a town near Grand Rapids. He has stated that he was bullied in school because he was an actor. He commented, "I just had to tell myself 'I can't let this get to me. This is what I love to do. And I'm going to continue doing it.'" He took his first karate class at the age of six. A year later, he attended the national karate tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, where he met Michael Chaturantabut, the founder of Xtreme Martial Arts. Chaturantabut invited Lautner to a camp he held at University of California,

title: Taylor Lautner

text: 2009, Weitz and Summit Entertainment announced that Lautner would continue to play the role of Jacob in the sequel. In an interview, fellow cast member Kristen Stewart talked about Lautner's transformation saying, "He's an entirely different person physically." Stewart later said, "He gets a lot of attention because he's buff, but I think as soon as the movie comes out, people are going to realize that's not why he got the job." Co-star Robert Pattinson said after seeing Lautner's body, "I saw him and thought 'Jesus, I'm going to get fired." In an interview with "The Wrap", Weitz said Lautner

title: Taylor Lautner

text: Los Angeles. Lautner trained with Chaturantabut for several years, earning his black belt by the age of eight, and winning several junior world championships. He appeared in an ISKA karate event televised on ESPN in 2003 that was later lampooned on the sports-comedy show "Cheap Seats" that first aired in 2006. In junior high, Lautner—who was involved in karate, baseball and hip-hop dance—won the award for "Best Smile" and played in the school's Turkey Bowl American Football game. He went to public school in Valencia, California at Valencia High School until his sophomore year. Chaturantabut, who once portrayed the Blue

title: John Lautner

text: Cohen was produced by Aluminum Films. It featured interviews with Lautner filmed for the production. In 2009 the Googie Company released the documentary feature film "Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner", directed by Murray Grigor. It features extensive contemporary and archival images of many of Lautner's key buildings (most of which are not open to the public), excerpts from Lautner's 1986 oral history recordings, interviews with Lautner's family, colleagues and clients, Lautner archivist Frank Escher and longtime Lautner fan Frank Gehry, as well as a moving on-site reunion of the three surviving principals who built the Chemosphere — Lautner's

title: What Might Have Been

text: What Might Have Been "What Might Have Been" is a song recorded by American country music group Little Texas. It was released in May 1993 as the lead-off single from their second (and breakthrough) album, "Big Time". It was written by the band's lead guitarist Porter Howell, rhythm guitarist Dwayne O'Brien, and keyboardist and vocalist Brady Seals. The song reached number 2 on the "Billboard"s Hot Country Songs chart and number 11 on the Canadian "RPM" country Tracks chart in 1993. It is one of their best known songs, peaking at number 16 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.

title: Taylor Lautner

text: The "Twilight" Saga film series. In January 2008, an open casting call was held in Portland, Oregon. Lautner had not heard of the "Twilight" series before, but was urged by his agent to audition. At his audition, he read lines with Kristen Stewart, who had already been cast as Bella, and they acted out scenes from "" and "". The film was a commercial success, earning $69 million its opening weekend, and has grossed $392 million worldwide. It received mixed reviews from critics, having a "Rotten" rating with a weighted average of 5.5/10. In describing the critical consensus, it stated:

title: John Lautner

text: of mobility. In recent years, Lautner's work has undergone a significant critical reappraisal with the 1999 publication of Alan Hess and Alan Weintraub's "The Architecture of John Lautner" (Rizzoli), and a 2008 exhibit at the Hammer Museum curated by architect Frank Escher and architectural historian Nicholas Olsberg. In 2009, Lautner was the subject of a documentary feature film direct by Murray Grigor, "Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner". John Lautner designed over 200 architectural projects during his career, but many designs for larger buildings were never realised. In the architectural press his extant body of work has been dominated

title: Georges Lautner

text: achève bien les cons !", is a thriller comic written by Georges Lautner and drawn by Phil Castaza, published by Soleil Productions in January the 28th 2004. This comics has been recently adapted for the screen by SystemD Productions. Georges Lautner Georges Lautner (; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter. Attracted from its beginnings to comedy, Lautner is best known for having put in image the most famous replicas of Michel Audiard, french screenwriter and film director, (their most famous collaboration remaining Tontons flingueurs). His incursions into other genres (including Le Professionnel

title: Taylor Lautner

text: "Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, "Twilight" will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, it has an average score of 56 from the 37 reviews. At the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Lautner was nominated for Male Breakthrough Performance, which was won by co-star Robert Pattinson. Initially, director Chris Weitz wanted to recast the role of Jacob Black for "Twilight"<nowiki>'s</nowiki> sequel, "", due to the major physical changes that occur in Black between the two novels, and

title: John Lautner

text: which snakes around its edge; the terrace is itself topped by a huge, sweeping semi-circular angled awning made of cast, reinforced concrete. Lautner designed the 11,200-square-foot Rancho del Valle rehabilitation center in 1979. In 2014, Santa Rosa-based Oakmont Senior Living offered to acquire the Winnetka Avenue site and to replace the Lautner building with a two-story, 84,978-square-foot facility better suited for eldercare. The Los Angeles Conservancy seeks to save the building. Several of Lautner's houses are now designated as Los Angeles Cultural-Historical Monuments. His dramatic and photogenic spaces have been frequently used as film, TV and photography locations, and they

title: John Lautner

text: a unique design solution — but also in his use of materials, as Jean-Louis Cohen notes in his essay "John Lautner's Luxuriant Tectonics": It is ironic that, although famous Lautner works like the Carling and Harpel houses, the Chemosphere and the Sheats Goldstein Residence have become inextricably linked with Los Angeles in the public imagination, Lautner repeatedly expressed his dislike of California. In his oral history interviews he was highly critical of the standard of architecture in Los Angeles, and idealised the rural Michigan environment of his youth, as he recalled in 1986: In 1939, Lautner had just finished working

title: John Lautner

text: have also influenced film production and set design: Many Lautner building were at one point owned by celebrities. Between 2001 and 2007, his Segel Residence on Malibu's Carbon Beach was owned by actors David Arquette and Courteney Cox; it sold for US$33.5 million. Actor Vincent Gallo owned three Lautner homes, including the Wolff House in West Hollywood and the Garcia House. In 2014, actress Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Chris Martin purchased Lautner’s 3,650-square-foot Garwood Residence in Point Dume for $14 million. One of the few Lautner buildings regularly open to the general public is the Desert Hot Springs Motel, which

title: John Lautner

text: Guest House. Another significant landmark this year was the article "Three Western Homes" in the March edition of "House & Garden", which included floor plans of the Bell Residence and four (uncredited) photos of the house by Julius Shulman. These photos marked the start of a lifelong association between architect and photographer; over the next fifty years Shulman logged some 75 assignments on various Lautner projects (for Lautner and other clients) and his photos of Lautner's architecture have appeared in at least 275 articles. Lautner left the Honnold practice in 1947, primarily because he had begun a relationship with Honnold's

title: John Lautner

text: John Lautner John Edward Lautner (16 July 1911 – 24 October 1994) was an American architect. Following an apprenticeship in the mid 1930s with Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner opened his own practice in 1938, where he would work for the remainder of his career. Lautner practiced primarily in California, and the majority of his works were residential. Lautner is perhaps best remembered for his contribution to the development of the Googie style, as well as for several Atomic Age houses he designed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which include the Leonard Malin House, Paul Sheats House, and Russ

title: John Lautner

text: and the "Los Angeles Times". Lautner and Gilman married in 1948 and MaryBud returned to Marquette with their four children, daughters Karol Lautner (b. 1938), Mary Beecher Lautner (b. California, 1944), Judith Munroe Lautner (b. California, 1946) and son Michael John Lautner (b. Astor Farm, Indio, California, 1942 - d. California, 2005). Lautner's output that year included the Tower Motors Lincoln-Mercury Showroom in Glendale and the Sheats "L'Horizon" Apartments, but most of the other designs dating from that year were domestic commissions that were never built. There were more important commissions in 1949–1950 including the Dahlstrom Residence, Googie's Coffee House

title: What Might Have Been

text: In this song, the narrator tells himself or his former romantic interest that he cannot change the past and that there is no way to know what their relationship could have become. The exact circumstances are left open-ended. Two music videos of the song, directed by Jack Cole, were filmed for the song. The first version, filmed entirely in sepia tone, focuses around World War II and shows a couple dancing just before the man has to go off to war. Old stock footage from the war is shown also. The second version features a man named Michael, who brings

title: John Lautner

text: for the Leonard J. Malin Residence, also known as the "Chemosphere" (1960), which has become one of his best-known and most influential creations. Located at 776 Torreyson Drive, Los Angeles, the house was designed for young aerospace engineer Leonard Malin in 1960 and built by John de la Vaux. The steep hillside site had been given to Malin by his father-in-law, but was considered impossible to build on until Lautner devised his design: Lautner ingeniously solved the problem of the 45-degree slope by siting the entire house off the ground atop a 50-foot (15 m) concrete pillar that rests on

title: John Lautner

text: Teachers College — where he studied philosophy, ethics, physics, literature, drafting, art and architectural history, read the work of Immanuel Kant and Henri Bergson, played woodwinds and piano, and developed an interest in jazz. He furthered his studies in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City. In 1933, Lautner graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts. In April 1933, after reading the autobiography of Frank Lloyd Wright, Vida Lautner approached the architect, who had recently launched his apprenticeship program at Taliesin. Lautner was quickly admitted to the Fellowship, but he had recently become engaged to a neighbor, Mary Faustina ("MaryBud") Roberts

title: Georges Lautner

text: Georges Lautner Georges Lautner (; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter. Attracted from its beginnings to comedy, Lautner is best known for having put in image the most famous replicas of Michel Audiard, french screenwriter and film director, (their most famous collaboration remaining Tontons flingueurs). His incursions into other genres (including Le Professionnel in 1981 or La Maison assassinée in 1988) were also popular with the public. He remains a great figure in the French comedy of the post-war period. He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr. "On

title: John Lautner

text: the year 2000, renting out the rooms as apartments. It was then sold to Steve Lowe, who briefly ran it as the Lautner Motel. After Lowe died in 2005 the property went through the courts as was finally put back on the market in late 2006, when designers Ryan Trowbridge and Tracy Beckmann purchased it in 2007 for less than $400,000. The couple spent the next three-and-a-half years renovating and restoring the property. Their efforts won the approval of the Lautner Foundation, who sanctioned its renaming as the Hotel Lautner, in honor of its designer. The hotel re-opened for business

title: John Lautner

text: by his apprenticeship under Frank Lloyd Wright. Speaking of his time at Taliesin, he recalled: Throughout his life Lautner was a passionate admirer of his mentor (to whom he typically referred as "Mr. Wright") and he remained a dedicated practitioner of Organic Architecture. His oral history interviews reveal that he had little regard for the International Style and its leading architects: Nevertheless, even during the time he worked under Wright, Lautner sought to established his own individual and distinctive style: Although his earlier works not surprisingly displayed some of the influence of his mentor, Lautner gradually developed his own style

title: John Lautner

text: by his domestic commissions; although he designed numerous commercial buildings including Googie's, Coffee Dan's and Henry's restaurants, the Beachwood Market, Desert Hot Springs Motel, and the Lincoln Mercury Showroom in Glendale, sadly, several of these buildings have since been demolished. With a handful of exceptions (e.g. the Arango Residence in Acapulco, the Turner House in Aspen, Colorado, the Harpel House #2 in Anchorage, Alaska, the Ernest Lautner house in Pensacola, Florida) nearly all of Lautner's extant buildings are in California, mostly in and around Los Angeles. His distinctive application of the principles of Organic Architecture was, of course, profoundly influenced

title: I Have Been in You

text: part of a long medley, featuring "Flakes" and "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes". The song was later referenced in the track "Is This Guy Kidding or What?" from the 1992 live album, "You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6". I Have Been in You "I Have Been in You", by Frank Zappa, is the opening song on the 1979 album "Sheik Yerbouti". Taking the structure of a love song pastiche, Zappa used the composition to ridicule Peter Frampton's album and single "I'm in You". Zappa's parody was directed at Frampton's change from the earnest musician to teen pop

title: John Lautner

text: and the UPA Studios in Burbank. During 1950, he was part of a group exhibition of sixteen California architects at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and in 1951 his work was included in Harris and Bonenberg's influential guidebook "A Guide to Contemporary Architecture in Southern California" (Watling, 1951). Lautner obtained his architectural license in 1952 and in February, "House and Home" published the genre-defining Douglas Haskell article "Googie Architecture", which included two Shulman photographs of the Los Angeles restaurant accompanied by an article on the Foster and Carling houses and L'Horizon apartments. From the late 1940s until his death, Lautner

title: John Lautner

text: editor Douglas Haskell after he spotted the Lautner-designed Googie's Coffee Shop while driving through Hollywood with renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman. Haskell used the term in a February 1952 "House and Home" magazine article on the new design style and it stuck, although it soon came to be used as a derogatory term in "serious" architectural circles. Lautner first defined an architectural solution to the scale, function, and public space of car-oriented suburban architecture in his remodel of Henry's in Glendale in 1947. Googie's Coffee Shop, designed in 1949, stood at the corner of Sunset Strip and Crescent Heights, next

title: John Lautner

text: worked primarily on designing domestic residences. His early work was on a relatively modest scale but in later years, as his reputation grew and his client base became more affluent, his design projects became increasingly grand, culminating in the palatial Arango residence in Acapulco, Mexico. This project, along with his appointment as Olympic Architect for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, were among the highlights of his later career. After many years of chronic illness, Elizabeth Lautner died in 1978; in 1982 Lautner married her caretaker, Francesca. Lautner's last years were also marred by declining health and loss

title: John Lautner

text: assistant Guy Zebert, original owner Leonard Malin, and builder John de la Vaux (who was 95 years old at the time of filming). Lautner's legacy is now curated and perpetuated by the non-profit John Lautner Foundation. In 2007 the Foundation donated its archive of drawings, models, photographs, and other materials that belonged to John Lautner to the Getty Research Institute Special Collections. In 2008 Lautner's life and work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Reviewing the exhibition, author and critic Hunter Drohojowska-Philp lauded Lautner's work: In 2011, city of Los Angeles

title: John Lautner

text: series of Los Angeles domestic projects, the Sturges, Green, Lowe, Bell and Mauer houses. His first significant solo project was his own Los Angeles home, the Lautner House (1939), which helped to establish his name — it was the subject of Lautner's first article on his own work, published in the June–July edition of "California Arts & Architecture", and it was featured in "Home Beautiful" where it was lauded by Henry-Russell Hitchcock as "the best house in the United States by an architect under thirty". During this period, Lautner worked with Wright on the designs of the Sturges House in

title: John Lautner

text: Garcia House. Lautner was born in Marquette, Michigan, in 1911 and was of mixed Austrian and Irish descent. His father, John Edward Lautner, who migrated from Germany ca. 1870, was self-educated, but gained a place at the University of Michigan as an adult and then studied philosophy in Göttingen, Leipzig, Geneva and Paris. In 1901, he was appointed as head of French and German at the recently founded Marquette Northern State Normal School (now Northern Michigan University), where he later became a teacher. His mother, Vida Cathleen ( Gallagher), was an interior designer and painter. The Lautners were keenly interested

title: John Lautner

text: on the Bell and Mauer houses, "Architectural Forum", and "The Californian". During 1941, Lautner was again brought in to oversee two more Wright projects that had run into trouble: the redesign of the Ennis House and an ill-fated project for a lavish Malibu residence ("Eaglefeather") for filmmaker Arch Oboler. This was beset by many problems (including the tragic drowning of Oboler's son in a water-filled excavation). A Lautner-designed retreat for Oboler's wife was eventually built. During 1942, he designed a caretaker's cottage for the Astor Farm (since demolished) and in 1943, he joined the Structon Company, where he worked on

title: John Lautner

text: Brentwood Heights, California and on the unbuilt Jester House. Lautner supervised the building of the Sturges House for Wright, but during construction he ran into serious design, cost and construction problems which climaxed with the threat of legal action by the owners, forcing Wright to bring in students from Taliesin to complete repairs. In the meantime, the Bell and Green projects had both stalled due to rising costs. The Greens canceled, but Wright gave the Bell commission to Lautner. He was also engaged to supervise the Mauer house when the Mauers dismissed Wright for failing to deliver the working drawings

title: What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

text: Shipka, author of a book on European exploitation films found the film "doesn't hold as much of a grip as" "What Have You Done to Solange?" as it focused too much on police protocol, but was still "an intense gritty film that deserves to be seen." What Have They Done to Your Daughters? What Have They Done to Your Daughters? () is a 1974 Italian "giallo" and "poliziotteschi" film directed by Massimo Dallamano. The film is about police officers investigating a case of a 14-year-old Silvia Polvesi who has been found hanged after receiving an anonymous phone call. After interrogating

title: John Lautner

text: window wall is made of five hanging glass panels. The infinity-edge swimming pool was one of the first of its kind. The project had a long and difficult gestation — while it was still being built, original owner Kenneth Reiner (with whom Lautner collaborated closely) was bankrupted by the fraudulent dealings of his business partners and he was forced to sell the house. Lautner also faced opposition from the Los Angeles building certification authorities, who were dismayed by the radical design of the post-stressed concrete ramp, which cantilivers out from the base of the house without any columns supporting it

title: John Lautner

text: himself. One of Lautner's most significant early works, this house embodies many of his central design concerns and includes key features that he would continue to explore and develop throughout his career. It was also important as the project that united him with builder John de la Vaux. Fortuitously, the pair met through their wives, who knew each other socially — at the time, Lautner was having trouble finding contractors to work on his houses, and de la Vaux, a boat builder, was keen to move into housing construction. At his wife's suggestion de la Vaux approached Lautner and offered

title: Have You Ever Been in Love (song)

text: sunset. Dion performed this song (between March and November 2003) five nights a week during her show "A New Day..." at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. Additionally, Dion performed the song on "VH1 Divas" and the "Today Show" that same year. In October 2008, "Have You Ever Been in Love" was included on the European version of "" greatest hits. "Have You Ever Been in Love" was covered by Aretha Franklin for her live performances. Co-writer Daryl Hall sings a version of this song on the Hall & Oates box set "Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music

title: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (film)

text: the energy down a notch. ... The most interesting element of "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" is the cantankerous old man who is indeed impossible, and forgetful, and careless, and impossible to please. If they leave him in the nursing home he'll die, but if they let him live alone he'll sooner or later kill himself or somebody else. So what should they do about him? Because this was the only question in the movie that had not already been answered in dozens of other films, I waited for the movie to attend to it. But of course room

title: Catherine Hardwicke

text: and Taylor Lautner ("Twilight"), who each got big breaks in her highly successful films. Hardwicke's films have been considered "dark" in story and tone. In 2009, she was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award. In 2012, Hardwicke helped create a public service announcement for the National Women's History Museum. Hardwicke came up with the idea for the announcement and contributed to the script. Catherine Hardwicke Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21, 1955) is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes "Thirteen" (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, "Lords

title: Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems

text: his time to developing the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism. Consequently, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems" was the first volume of his poems to be published. It contained, among other poems, what has been called "the shortest poem in the English language," a two-word poem which first appeared in the "Literary Review" of the "New York Evening Post" in 1925, although it was later anthologized without proper attribution to the author. The poem is: "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems" includes letter written in 1951 by William Carlos Williams to Martha Baird, the wife of Eli Siegel, in

title: What Have I Done to Deserve This? (film)

text: What Have I Done to Deserve This? (film) What Have I Done to Deserve This? () is a 1984 Spanish black comedy written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Starring Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López, Chus Lampreave and Verónica Forqué, the films follows the misadventures of an overworked housewife and her dysfunctional family. "What Have I Done", Almodovar's fourth film, became the first of his works to be released theatrically in the U.S. premiering to sold-out crowds as part of New Directors/New Films

title: What Have You Done to Solange?

text: remake of "What Have You Done to Solange?". The film will be produced by Refn's Space Rocket Nation banner along with producer Fulvio Lucisano. What Have You Done to Solange? What Have You Done to Solange? () is a 1972 "giallo" film directed by Massimo Dallamano, and starring Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbó, and Camille Keaton. The plot follows a series of violent murders occurring at a Catholic girls' school in England where a young student has gone missing. The film is a co-production between Italian production companies Italian International Films S.r.l., Clodio Cinematografica and West German

title: John Lautner

text: the ramp to test it. The project then sat unfinished for some time. When it became available through bankruptcy in 1974, Philip and Jacklyn Burchill bought the home. They worked with Lautner to complete the home and moved in 1976. Garcia House Designed for Russ & Gina Garcia, construction began in 1960 and was completed 1962. Russ Garcia was a critically acclaimed music composer of music for the Walt Disney Co and worked with such talent as Julie London. Originally slated to have an entirely concrete roof, the City of Los Angeles was too unfamiliar with Lautner's far out designs

title: Taylor Chain

text: Film & Broadcast Competition. Broadcast on public television, "Taylor Chain I & II" have been praised for their realistic glimpse into the lives of blue-collar workers. Taylor Chain Taylor Chain I & II are a pair of documentary films, produced by Kartemquin FIlms, that first examine a seven-week workers' strike at a Hammond, Indiana, chain manufacturing plant and then follow the collective bargaining process of the same plant one decade later. Originally released by Kartemquin as two separate short documentaries in 1980 and 1984, "Taylor Chain I & II" were released together to show how the decade-long labor movement was

title: Misogyny in horror films

text: when the latter are in dire need of help. Psychologists have concluded that an "ethical shift in the meaning and value of family responsibility" has occurred, which is characterized by a change from an obligation to others towards to a focus on oneself. According to some research, divorce is the main reason for this shift, and it has been suggested that horror films tend to portray what is going on in society. According to Gill, this change in meaning and values explains why teenagers in horror films are left to fend for themselves and the boundaries of their homes have

title: What Have They Done to the Rain

text: Seekers, Marianne Faithfull,Joan Baez (1962), and Melanie. The song was also recorded by the composer and issued by Columbia on the 1967 album Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth (reissued on CD by Omni in 2008). It was also covered by actress Lili Taylor in Nancy Savoca's film "Dogfight". Tout est étrange sous la pluie What Have They Done to the Rain "What Have They Done to the Rain" is a song by Malvina Reynolds. Composed in 1962 and first entitled "Rain Song", it was written as part of a campaign to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, which was producing

title: Exhumed Films

text: there,” explained Gervasi. “It creates a sense of excitement where you have no idea what you’re going to see.” Attendees are given a booklet with clues as to what films will be shown, but otherwise only the members of Exhumed Films know the lineup in advance. For the 2011 show, the film "The Dead" (2010) was shown in its Philadelphia premiere, marking the first time any of the films in the show lineup had been announced in advance. Exhumed Films Exhumed Films is an American "organization devoted to showing horror movies for the benefit of their fans." Based in Philadelphia,

title: What Have You Done to Solange?

text: influenced by American films such as "Dirty Harry" and "The French Connection". Dallamano's next film in the "Schoolgirls in Peril" trilogy was "What Have They Done to Your Daughters?", a film with similar themes to "What Have You Done to Solange?". The final part of the series was "Red Rings of Fear". It was released on August 19, 1978. Dallamano is credited as a screenwriter on the film, and was intended to direct the film, but he died before the film began production. Director Nicolas Winding Refn announced in 2016 that he was seeking a director and screenwriter for a

title: Dub Taylor

text: production that seemed to be lacking at the Monogram lot, where Taylor brought his "Cannonball" character in 1947. There he joined up with Jimmy Wakely for a two-year run of sixteen additional films. Those final episodes may have been unpleasant experiences for Taylor, for he never wanted to talk about them thereafter. After 1949, Taylor turned away from Cannonball and embarked on a more varied acting career. His roles, even during his Cannonball period, were not confined to the aforementioned films. He had bit parts as well in a number of classic motion pictures, including "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

title: What Have You Done to Solange?

text: What Have You Done to Solange? What Have You Done to Solange? () is a 1972 "giallo" film directed by Massimo Dallamano, and starring Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbó, and Camille Keaton. The plot follows a series of violent murders occurring at a Catholic girls' school in England where a young student has gone missing. The film is a co-production between Italian production companies Italian International Films S.r.l., Clodio Cinematografica and West German company Rialto Film. While in a boat making out with a college professor, a young woman sees a man with a knife stabbing another

title: I Have Been in You

text: between a boy and girl, "I have been in you, baby/And you have been in me". Recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, Zappa later re-recorded the vocals at his personal studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen facility, using a close micing technique. Musically, the bass singer and the bass guitar are giving a counter melody. When Zappa begins singing the song develops into a slow reggae beat. At various points Zappa sings slightly off beat, letting the speech lengths of the syllables prevail, which emphasises the lyrics. In concert, "I Have Been in You" was usually performed as

title: What a Friend We Have in Jesus

text: the 1973 film "O Lucky Man!" and later became a hit when used in the 1987 Volkswagen Golf television commercial. The tune was in the labor protest movement due to its wide popularity. "Dump the Bosses Off Your Backs" (words by John Brill) was published in the IWW "Little Red Songbook" and has been recorded by dozens of artists including Utah Phillips, Anne Feeney, and Joe Glazer. A Norwegian version was used in the film "Trollhunter". It was sung in the 1984 film "Footloose". What a Friend We Have in Jesus "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" is a

title: Zachary Taylor

text: and Taylor's chance of recovery was small. On July 8, Taylor remarked to a medical attendant: I should not be surprised if this were to terminate in my death. I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the Presidency. God knows I have endeavored to fulfill what I conceived to be an honest duty. But I have been mistaken. My motives have been misconstrued, and my feelings most grossly outraged. Despite treatment, Taylor died at 10:35 p.m. on July 9, 1850. He was 65 years old. After his death, Vice President Fillmore assumed the

text: mind when her son Miguel returns unexpectedly and says he wants to take care of her. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (film) What Have I Done to Deserve This? () is a 1984 Spanish black comedy written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Starring Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López, Chus Lampreave and Verónica Forqué, the films follows the misadventures of an overworked housewife and her dysfunctional family. "What Have I Done", Almodovar's fourth film, became the first of his works to

title: Have I Been Pwned?

text: records tied to that email address. The website also provides details about each data breach, such as the backstory of the breach and what specific types of data were included in it. Have I Been Pwned? also offers a "Notify me" service that allows visitors to subscribe to notifications about future breaches. Once someone signs up with this notification mailing service, they will receive an email message any time their personal information is found in a new data breach. In September 2014, Hunt added functionality that enabled new data breaches to be automatically added to HIBP's database. The new feature

title: Elizabeth Taylor

text: had the range, nerve, and instinct that only Bette Davis had had before – and like Davis, Taylor was monster and empress, sweetheart and scold, idiot and wise woman". Three films in which she starred – "National Velvet", "Giant", and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" – have been preserved in the National Film Registry, and the American Film Institute has named her the seventh greatest female screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema. Taylor has also been discussed by journalists and scholars interested in the role of women in Western society. Camille Paglia writes that Taylor was a "pre-feminist woman" who

title: I Have Been in You

text: I Have Been in You "I Have Been in You", by Frank Zappa, is the opening song on the 1979 album "Sheik Yerbouti". Taking the structure of a love song pastiche, Zappa used the composition to ridicule Peter Frampton's album and single "I'm in You". Zappa's parody was directed at Frampton's change from the earnest musician to teen pop idol, replete with bare chested album cover, and syrupy love ballads. The song is in the same vein as the Mothers of Invention's lampooning of the Beatles with "We're Only in It for the Money". Lyrically, it describes a sex scene

title: Rocky Taylor

text: Larry was also a stuntman, appearing in several films, including "Zulu". Rocky Taylor Rocky Taylor (born Laurie Taylor in 1946) is an English stuntman and actor. Taylor was born in Bermonsdey South East London England. His first appearance as a stuntman was an uncredited role in "Dr. No". He has since been a stuntman for many famous and successful films including multiple James Bond and Indiana Jones films, "A Bridge Too Far", "Titanic", "The Da Vinci Code", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" and the HBO television series "Game of Thrones". He has also had minor acting roles

title: Rocky Taylor

text: Rocky Taylor Rocky Taylor (born Laurie Taylor in 1946) is an English stuntman and actor. Taylor was born in Bermonsdey South East London England. His first appearance as a stuntman was an uncredited role in "Dr. No". He has since been a stuntman for many famous and successful films including multiple James Bond and Indiana Jones films, "A Bridge Too Far", "Titanic", "The Da Vinci Code", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" and the HBO television series "Game of Thrones". He has also had minor acting roles in 40 films, including doubling for Roger Moore and Sean Connery

title: What Might Have Been

text: his son, Tommy, to visit Michael's grandfather, Nathan, who lives in a nursing home. After arriving, Tommy shows his great-grandfather a photograph that he had found of Nathan with a woman he met during World War II, named Clarice. Throughout the visit, Nathan shares various stories with Michael about Clarice, along with the fact that they had lost all contact with each other after the war ended. After Michael and Tommy leave, Nathan walks about the nursing home hallways when he passes an elderly woman. He suddenly stops and turns around to see if the woman looks familiar - it

title: Call It What You Want (Taylor Swift song)

text: lyric video has garnered over 55 million views. Swift performed an acoustic version of "Call It What You Want" during a SiriusXM Fishbowl session on November 10, 2017. A day later, Swift performed an acoustic version of the song again during an episode of the 43rd season of "Saturday Night Live", alongside "...Ready for It?". The song is also a regular part of her setlist for the Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour. Call It What You Want (Taylor Swift song) "Call It What You Want" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her sixth studio album "Reputation"

title: John Lautner

text: in art and architecture and in May 1918, their Marquette home "Keepsake", designed by Joy Wheeler Dow, was featured in the magazine "The American Architect". A crucial early influence in Lautner's life was the construction of the family's idlyllic summer cabin, "Midgaard", sited on a rock shelf on a remote headland on the shore on Lake Superior. The Lautners designed and built the cabin themselves and his mother designed and painted all the interior details, based on her study of Norse houses. In 1929, Lautner enrolled in the Liberal Arts program at his father's college — now renamed Northern State

title: John Lautner

text: it in collaboration with architects Frank Escher and Ravi Gunewardena, earning them an award from the Los Angeles Conservancy. The Chemosphere is a now a Los Angeles landmark and in 2008 a panel of experts commissioned by the "Los Angeles Times" rated the Chemosphere as one of the "Top 10 houses of all time in L.A.". It is one of the most unusual and distinctive houses in the Los Angeles area and its unique design has led to it being featured or referenced in many media productions. As his career developed Lautner increasingly explored the use of concrete and he

title: John Lautner

text: domestic designs. In February 2013, the property was put on the market for $50 million; but finally sold for $13 million in 2016. Arguably the pinnacle of Lautner's career, the vast (25,000 sq.ft) "Marbrisa" in Acapulco was built for Mexican supermarket magnate Jeronimo Arango in 1973 and was jointly designed by Lautner and Helena Arahuete during her first year with the firm. Perched on a hilltop site, with uninterrupted views across the whole of Acapulco Bay, the main living quarters are surmounted by a large open terrace with spectacular views of the beach and bay, encircled by a "sky moat"

title: John Lautner

text: from beneath, and is only four inches thick. Not surprisingly, the Los Angeles building inspector demanded a static load test to prove that it could take the weight of a car — a standoff that mirrored Lautner and Wright's earlier contretemps with skeptical building authorities who demanded load tests on Wright's famous "lotus pad" columns for the Johnson Wax Building. In the event, Lautner's load calculations proved flawless and in fact the instruments recorded more deflection in the concrete from the change in temperature when the sun went down than they did from the weight of the sandbags loaded onto

title: John Lautner

text: wartime military construction and engineering projects in California, giving him valuable exposure to current developments in construction technology. This also marked the end of his professional association with Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1944, Lautner pursued joint ventures with architects Samuel Reisbord and Whitney R. Smith before becoming a design associate in the practice of Douglas Honnold. He collaborated with Honnold on several projects including Coffee Dan's restaurants on Vine St., Hollywood, and on Broadway downtown Los Angeles, and a remodel of the Beverly Hills Athletic Club (since demolished) as well as two solo projects, the Mauer House and the Eisele

title: John Lautner

text: in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which became a key source for his own small houses. He was also deeply involved in the construction of the Drafting Room at Taliesin West — which influenced the design of his Mauer House (1946) — collated photographs of Wright's work for a 1938 special issue of "Architectural Forum" and later briefly returned to Taliesin to help assemble models and materials for a 1940 Museum of Modern Art exhibition. Lautner left the Fellowship in early 1938 (primarily because MaryBud was pregnant) to establish his own architecture practice in Los Angeles, but he told his mentor that, while

title: John Lautner

text: in September 2011. The . Dolores and Bob Hope Residence (1973), situated close to the Elrod Residence in Palm Springs, features a massive undulating triangular roof, pierced by a large circular central light shaft. The original uncompleted house was destroyed by a fire started by a welder's torch during construction. Bob and Dolores Hope interfered extensively in the second design, with the result that Lautner eventually distanced himself from the project. Although not well-known and rarely available for public viewing (it is located within a private, gated community) it is one of the largest and most visually striking of Lautner's

title: John Lautner

text: in time. Although the Mauer House was not finished for another five years, the Bell House was quickly completed and it consolidated the earlier success of the Lautner House, earning him wide praise and recognition — the University of Chicago solicited plans and drawings for use as a teaching tool, and it was featured in numerous publications over the next few years including the "Los Angeles Times", a three-page spread in the June 1942 issue of "Arts and Architecture", the May 1944 issue "House and Garden" (which declared it "the model house for California living"), a "California Designs" feature centering

title: John Lautner

text: $100,000, but fortunately Malin and Lautner were able to cover the shortfall by obtaining corporate sponsorship, including funding from the Southern California Gas Company and support from the Chemseal Corporation of America, who provided sealants, plastics and other materials, in return for use of the house for promotions and the right to name the house the "Chemosphere" for advertising purposes. After passing through a succession of owners, the building was rented out and occasionally used as a party venue and by the 1990s the interior was considerably degraded. Fortunately, German publisher Benedikt Taschen purchased the house in 2000 and restored

title: John Lautner

text: a massive concrete pad 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter and 3 feet (0.91 m) thick, buried into the rocky hillside. Halfway up the pillar, eight angled steel "spokes" — bolted onto bosses formed onto the surface of the column — splay out and up, supporting and stabilizing the outer rim of the house, and the center of the pillar also houses the utility cables and pipes. Lautner provided access from the driveway up the steep hillside by installing a funicular, which terminates at a short sloping gangway that leads up to the entrance. The house is octagonal in plan

title: John Lautner

text: collaboration with de la Vaux, which lasted through seven major projects, including the famous "Chemosphere". Although best known for his residential commissions, Lautner was also an important contributor to the commercial genre known as Googie architecture. Alan Hess, author of "Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture" records Lautner's contributions to a new car-oriented architecture developing in Southern California by architects such as Lloyd Wright and Wayne McAllister from the 1920s on; Lautner's Coffee Dans, Henry's, and Googies defined an architectural approach to scale, signage, and commercial interior spaces. The term "Googie architecture" was coined in 1952 by noted "House and Home"

title: John Lautner

text: wife Elizabeth Gilman (although the two men reportedly remained friends). He separated from MaryBud (they divorced later that year) and moved into the Honnold residence at 1818 El Cerrito Place, where he established his own design office. He embarked on a string of significant design projects including the Carling Residence, the Desert Hot Springs Motel, the Gantvoort Residence and Henry's Restaurant in Glendale. Lautner soon established a high media profile and throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s his work featured regularly in both popular and professional publications, including "Architectural Record", "Arts & Architecture", "House & Garden", "Ladies' Home Journal"

title: John Lautner

text: and could not afford the fees, so Vida approached MaryBud's mother, who agreed to pay for the couple to join the program. John soon realized that he had little interest in formal drafting and avoided the Taliesin drafting room, preferring daily duties of "carpenter, plumber, farmer, cook and dishwasher, that is an apprentice, which I still believe is the real way to learn". From 1933 to 1939, he worked and studied under Wright at the studios in Wisconsin and Arizona. Lautner progressed rapidly under Wright's mentorship. By 1934, — the year he and MaryBud married , he was preparing design