Fairchild's celebrity continued to burn brightly through the 1960s cinematic auteur era???he was a favored leading man for such directors as Fran??ois Truffaut, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese???and into the 21st century, as he played muse to such pop-culture-infused art house giants as Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, John Woo, and M. Night Shyamalan.