Word: renard
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...effect on arts can be seen by looking at 1922, the year that Einstein won the Nobel Prize, James Joyce published Ulysses and T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land. There was a famous party in May for the debut of the ballet Renard, composed by Stravinsky and staged by Diaghilev. They were both there, along with Picasso (who had designed the sets), Proust (who had been proclaimed Einstein's literary interpreter) and Joyce. The art of each, in its own way, reflected the breakdown of mechanical order and of the sense that space and time were absolutes...
...several character flaws to which Bond seemed vulnerable in past films have now surfaced, much to his disadvantage. For instance, his stoicism cedes to jealous rage when he learns that his enemy, Renard (Robbie Coltrane), had previously taken advantage of Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), Bond's latest interest. Bond's was right anger, but revealed an unprecedented dependence and emotion all the same...
...makers of The Fan seem to be aware of the problem. So the screenplay (by Phoef Sutton) gives De Niro's character, Gil Renard, a novel fixation for his volatile blend of admiration and envy--a baseball star named Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes). The Fan also provides De Niro with good, carefully outlined reasons for spinning out of control: Gil loses his job, and his ex-wife obtains a court order preventing him from seeing their son on the grounds that Gil is both too intense and too careless. There's even a back story that explains...
MOVIES . . . THE FAN: Robert De Niro is our designated stalker, says TIME's Richard Schickel. But because we've been here before, 'The Fan' gives De Niro's character, Gil Renard, a novel fixation for his volatile blend of admiration and envy -->