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Show 7 7 SECTION WEDNESDAY, UFE & STYLE EDITOR I Elyssa Andrus 344-255- 3 SEPTEMBER 15. 2004 eandrusOheraldextra.com Bfe mm u & i j A Newer Hope: On Tues- day, "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Bade," and "Return of the Jedi" will become available on DVD for the first time. It's old news that the versions of all three films used for the DVD release are the 1997 Special Edition versions. What you may not have heard is 1 m jmt Ft s 1 t.' J V- ? - that George Lu- cas has made ditional ad- the Special Edition versions even "spedaler." The most 1 . - new tweaks is the insertion of prequel characters into scenes from the original movies. Remember the scene at, the end of "Jedi" whenAnakin s JEREMY HARMONAssociated the Regency Historical Society in the film "Emma," based on Austen's book of the same title. Catherine Jungheim, president of ' a type of Jane Austen fan club wears lb ei Jennifer Frey The Washington Post and Ashley Banks Daily Herald W! A book about book club that reads Jane Austen is ' entrenched on r lists, Keira Knight fey, one of Hollywood's reigning "It" girls, is filming yet another version of "Ride and Prejudice." Elizabeth and her beloved Mr. Darcy are living out the married chapter of their lives in "Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice at bookstores. We can buy . "Pride and Prejudice," the board game; and Jane Austen paper dolls. Jane Austen, the sleuth, has her own line of . mystery novels. ' Austen, it appears, is our new Shakespeare; Two hundred years after her novels were written, she's ascended to that level where her work is imitated, quoted, ripped off and, yes, revered best-selle- Con-tinue- s" r ane novelist, the ink has yet to dry 228-year-o-ld live in a Jane Austen Press a period dress she made patterned after a dress worn ! For England's Skywalker's blithe spirit is seen kickin' it with the smiling shades of Yoda n and Kenobi? . The scene was originally filmed with grandfather Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's ghost Now it's Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin as a whiny teenager with an 'N Sync hairdo in "Attack of the Cones." Mum's the word about who else gets included, but I'm hoping for at least these three: MaceWindu: state, upfront, that if Ms. Austen ever got her otherworldly self a copy of "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (wildly popular chick lit by Brit Sophie Kinsel-la- ), she wouldn't necessarily consider it Citing Jane these days is, like playing a smart card. a tribute. Her heroines may have their Nowhere is this more evident than flaws, but in chick lit, a lack of geothe large chain bookstores, where graphical intelligence, financial pru"chick lit" tables are smothered with dence and some basic common sense seem to be common afflictions. Call it volumes boasting an Austen reference in a blurb on the back cover. Austen, Jane Austen Lite. Nick Mason, a Brigham Young Uniit's been suggested, is the of chick lit that explod- versity assistant professor of 19th-ceing genre about upwardly mobile tury British literature, said many have young women and their wayward tra, tried to imitate Austen, with varying vails through the world of modern degrees of success. "I dont think there's any question courtship (and shopping), set mostly in that Austen has a central formula with the best nehborhoods in London or . New York; her texts that have much in common with contemporary romance, but she is Hmnirrm That does sound suspiciously like Austen: privileged women, working in this mode when it's not quite as cliched as today," he said, comprivileged environs, an obsession with material wealth and class distinctions, paring elements of chick lit with conand, always, the underlying mating temporary romance literature. The norms of contemporary romance that dance. : But before we go too far, let us now we gag at are imitating not so well the same things Austen does in her novels. "Austen set the terms that other writers are following up on," he said. Jan Wellington, an assistant professor at Utah Valley State College, said Austen's themes of independence and inner strength ring true today. "Austen was wonderful at depicting the details of dairy life of people, both men and women," she said. "There is a muted feminist strain in her writing that appeals to women of all sorts, including the ones who like to dress and Unking together the series' token black characters, a hologram of Samuel L Jackson's Jedi chieftain is glimpsed hanging on the wallofLando Calrissian's Cloud City office shop." No longer plain Jane in "Empire." The comparison, it appears, is unavoidable. But where did all this come from? What suddenly made Austen so ' unbearably tup? Michael Gamer, a University of Pennsylvania professor who teaches a class about Austen's translation to other Dramatically, the frame says "Dad" DarthMaul: You only thought hewasdeadl The former Sith ! See AUSTEN, B6 f Designers adding a little zip-u- p to fall jackets Janelle Erlichman Diamond THE V WASHINGTON POST Track jackets, a transitional garment for autumn, are bang Tipdated mer decades. This season Adidas is reissuing its 1987 Lendl Track Top named for tennis as a satin , player Ivan Lendl lauin wiuiiuuimv.yi.ic iauuu. The '80s strike back," says Todd Richter, a buyer for Guy shop.com, an online retail site that sells among other . an old sdKxJ jacket with ribbed waist things band and oiffs from 10 Deep. Track jackets were originally brought into the mainstream by old-4 ' uxm j and r an scnool rappers lute A five Freddys he says. Kun-UM- Updated track Jackets: Left, Dolce & Gabbana bomber jacket ($825 and Fast Auto Zip jacket ($98). At top right, 10 Deep's Fort Greene Zip ($101) and Adidas' Lendl Track Top ($120). 2; rt . ' An Old Republic senator at the end of "Clones," the comical Gun-ga- n now appears as trie Imperial officer who taunts Darth ll market but have only recently made a resur- eence in mainstream fashinn. savs Richter. More comfortable than denim and flashier than a hoodie, track jackets are a ', perfect complement to today's popular vintage-looking tees and jeans,' he says. "What's next, Members Only?" apprentice, now a henchman of Jabba the Hurt, takes a bad step during the "Jedi" sail barge battle and plunges to his doom in the . belly of the sar-lamoments after BobaFett suffers the same fate. Heightening the overall comedy, the sand monster copies its own reaction to Fett and emits a second droll belch. JarJarBinks: Vaderhi'Star Wars.'("Theesa station eesa now h the ultimate power inna the universe. Meesa suggest we use ' it") CodyChA S;': A |