jilter

And just tell my man to saddle Jilter and take him to by brother, the curate.

("Get On," a revenge song for a deadbeat boyfriend, offers an image of her with another man designed to make the jilter gnaw his fist.)

These override stereotypical observations ("Men come and go; women stay") and hyperbolic asides ("To be the jilter is the worst").

Ms. Roberts plays a serial jilter, always leaving the man at the altar; Mr. Gere plays a journalist hired to write about her.