The 2000s have also seen many new teen idols emerge from popular feature films such as the casts of the Harry Potter ( e. g. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson ) and Twilight ( e. g. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner ) film franchises ; television series such as Glee have also developed stars who are popular among younger viewers.

Les Tontons flingueurs (, also known as Monsieur Gangster ) is a 1963 French-Italian-German film, made in the French language, directed by Georges Lautner.

Another key characteristic of Lautner's architecture is his heterogeneous approach, not only in his overall concepts — each Lautner building is a unique design solution — but also in his use of materials, as Jean-Louis Cohen notes in his essay " John Lautner's Luxuriant Tectonics ":

Although best known for his residential commissions, Lautner was also an important contributor to the commercial genre known as Googie architecture.

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 from beneath, and is only four inches thick.

Miley Cyrus had auditioned for the film with Lautner, and said it came down to her and another girl who was also auditioning, however Miley began production on Hannah Montana.

The scenes in Jackie Treehorn's house were shot in the Sheats Goldstein Residence, designed by John Lautner and built in 1963 in the Hollywood Hills.

Desert Hot Springs is the home of the Desert Hot Springs Hotel, designed by architect John Lautner.

The origin of the name Googie dates to 1949, when architect John Lautner designed the West Hollywood coffee shop, Googies, which had distinct architectural characteristics.

* The Chemosphere, a house designed by American architect John Lautner, completed in the Hollywood Hills, California.

John Lautner designed over 200 architectural projects during his career, but many designs for larger buildings were never realised.

As his career developed Lautner increasingly explored the use of concrete and he designed a number of homes for his more affluent clients that featured major structural elements fabricated from reinforced concrete.

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.

* the Concannon Residence in Beverly Hills passed through several hands before being purchased by James Goldstein ( owner of the neighbouring Sheats-Goldstein Residence ), who demolished it in 2002 to build an office, nightclub, tennis court, sundeck, plexiglass-bottom infinity pool, and more, that were part of Lautner designed, but never built structures.

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 & Architcture, 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 ".

* John Lautner – Desert Hot Springs Motel ( 1947 ); Arthur Elrod House ( 1968 )( interiors used in filming James Bond's Diamonds Are Forever ); Bob Hope's home ( 1973 )

Film actor Taylor Lautner made a memorable appearance in the show, putting on an exhibition of his Martial Arts skills.

During this period Lautner worked with Wright on the designs of the Sturges House in Brentwood Heights, California and on the unbuilt Jester House.

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 on the Bell and Mauer houses, Architectural Forum, and The Californian.

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 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 worked primarily on designing domestic residences.

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.

As de La Vaux recounted in the 2009 Lautner documentary, the project was briefly halted by a rare snowstorm that dumped more than six inches of snow on the Hollywood area.

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 a massive concrete pad 20 feet ( 6. 1 m ) in diameter and 3 feet ( 0. 91 m ) thick, buried into the rocky hillside.

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 1929 Lautner enrolled in the Liberal Arts program at his father's college — now renamed Northern State 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 assistant Guy Zebert, original owner Leonard Malin, and builder John de la Vaux ( who was 95 years old at the time of filming ).

He creates two characters, the first one being Sharkboy ( Taylor Lautner ), a young boy who was raised by sharks after losing his Dad at sea.

Nevertheless, even during the time he worked under Wright, Lautner sought to established his own individual and distinctive style:

Vincent Gallo owned three Lautner homes.

* 1965: Les Bons Vivants, directed by Gilles Grangier et Georges Lautner

The revival in the late 90s of mid-century modernism has given new cachet to his work, as with homes and public structures built by the architects John Lautner and Rudolf Schindler.

* 1971: Laisse aller ... c ' est une valse !, directed by Georges Lautner

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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 2009 Lautner was the subject of a documentary feature film direct by Murray Grigor, Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner.

Construction of the highly unusual project saw the initial $ 30, 000 budget blow out to over $ 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.

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.

* the Nouard Gootgeld Residence, 1167 Summit Drive, Beverly Hills ( 1952 ) was jointly built by Lautner and Gootgeld.