It was open adoration, very definitely the whole syndrome of, I’m making a movie star – a director takes and unknown and she blossoms under his tutelage, says Dern.

tutelage (n) 1: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tuition, tutorship] 2: attention and management implying responsibility for safety; ”he is under the care of a physician” [syn: care, charge, guardianship] – source: Easy Riders Raging Bulls, p. 176