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John Powers

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Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia

's fate.

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Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia

And in the moral logic that undergirds Reichert's work, they serve as a measure of his self-absorption.

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Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia

The guy's so busy being a mastermind that he can't see what's going on around him.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

On the stock exchange of literary acclaim, reputations rise, fall, go bust, and sometimes rise again. These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a great novelist to becoming a marketable brand.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

On the stock exchange of literary acclaim, reputations rise, fall, go bust, and sometimes rise again. These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a great novelist to becoming a marketable brand.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

On the stock exchange of literary acclaim, reputations rise, fall, go bust, and sometimes rise again. These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a great novelist to becoming a marketable brand.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Beyond the scads of adaptations, we've had movies titled Austenland and the Jane Austen Book Club, Anne Hathaway playing the young Jane, and Mr. Darcy's popping up everywhere, from Bridget Jones's Diary to the Hallmark Channel's Mr. Darcy Trilogy.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Beyond the scads of adaptations, we've had movies titled Austenland and the Jane Austen Book Club, Anne Hathaway playing the young Jane, and Mr. Darcy's popping up everywhere, from Bridget Jones's Diary to the Hallmark Channel's Mr. Darcy Trilogy.

Fresh Air
To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Beyond the scads of adaptations, we've had movies titled Austenland and the Jane Austen Book Club, Anne Hathaway playing the young Jane, and Mr. Darcy's popping up everywhere, from Bridget Jones's Diary to the Hallmark Channel's Mr. Darcy Trilogy.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

As I speak, the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice is enjoying a 20th anniversary re-release, while over on Masterpiece, that queen of British television, Keely Hawes, stars as Jane's sister Cassandra in the series Miss Austin. Even France is getting into the act with the release of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, an amiable new romance written and directed by Laura Piani.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

As I speak, the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice is enjoying a 20th anniversary re-release, while over on Masterpiece, that queen of British television, Keely Hawes, stars as Jane's sister Cassandra in the series Miss Austin. Even France is getting into the act with the release of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, an amiable new romance written and directed by Laura Piani.

Fresh Air
To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

As I speak, the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice is enjoying a 20th anniversary re-release, while over on Masterpiece, that queen of British television, Keely Hawes, stars as Jane's sister Cassandra in the series Miss Austin. Even France is getting into the act with the release of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, an amiable new romance written and directed by Laura Piani.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Steep in the filmmaker's love of the writer, the movie, whose title is just a tease, embodies the pleasures and limitations of the Austen boom. The appealing Camille Rutherford stars as 30-something Agathe, a would-be romance writer who works at the renowned Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Company.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Steep in the filmmaker's love of the writer, the movie, whose title is just a tease, embodies the pleasures and limitations of the Austen boom. The appealing Camille Rutherford stars as 30-something Agathe, a would-be romance writer who works at the renowned Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Company.

Fresh Air
To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Steep in the filmmaker's love of the writer, the movie, whose title is just a tease, embodies the pleasures and limitations of the Austen boom. The appealing Camille Rutherford stars as 30-something Agathe, a would-be romance writer who works at the renowned Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Company.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Profoundly blocked in her writing, emotions, and romantic life, Agathe spends her time hanging out with her co-worker Felix. That's the amusing Pablo Paoli, a likable womanizer who's her best friend. Agathe is headed nowhere until she gets invited to a writer's retreat at the Jane Austen residency in England.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Profoundly blocked in her writing, emotions, and romantic life, Agathe spends her time hanging out with her co-worker Felix. That's the amusing Pablo Paoli, a likable womanizer who's her best friend. Agathe is headed nowhere until she gets invited to a writer's retreat at the Jane Austen residency in England.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

Profoundly blocked in her writing, emotions, and romantic life, Agathe spends her time hanging out with her co-worker Felix. That's the amusing Pablo Paoli, a likable womanizer who's her best friend. Agathe is headed nowhere until she gets invited to a writer's retreat at the Jane Austen residency in England.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

There she meets, you guessed it, a grumpy, attractive man with whom she doesn't get along. His name is Oliver, and he's played by Charlie Anson, an actor who's like the housebrand version of Hugh Grant. We sense that they're destined for each other, even as we wonder whether she's better suited to Felix, with whom she shared an unexpectedly passionate kiss as she left for England.

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To Shed Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill Turned To Voiceover Work

There she meets, you guessed it, a grumpy, attractive man with whom she doesn't get along. His name is Oliver, and he's played by Charlie Anson, an actor who's like the housebrand version of Hugh Grant. We sense that they're destined for each other, even as we wonder whether she's better suited to Felix, with whom she shared an unexpectedly passionate kiss as she left for England.