Community Community Swasthi Japanese Academy for artist P7 Excellence P20 Masakatsu promises to focus Sashie’s solo on honing fine exhibition will go on talents to their display at the Anima utmost limits. Gallery on May 9. Friday, April 29, 2016 Rajab 22, 1437 AH DOHA 25°C—38°C TODAY PUZZLES 14 & 15 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE 16 JJane,ane, a hhurricaneurricane Centuries later, the famous writer continues to inspire books, clubs, movies and more. P2-3 COVER STORY 2 GULF TIMES Friday, April 29, 2016 COMMUNITY COVER STORY No plain Jane The writer’s fiction is the basis for many film and TV adaptations as well as the template for countless PRAYER TIME rom-com movies or romance novels. Also, unlikely Fajr 3.38am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.00am mashups into the Austen universe, writes Tom Beer Zuhr (noon) 11.31am Asr (afternoon) 3.00pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.05pm Isha (night) 7.35pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Ooredoo Telephone Assistance 111 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Time 141, 140 Doha International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Medical Commission 44679111 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Weather Forecast 44656590 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Qatar University 44033333 ote Unquo Qu te The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword ane Austen (1775-1817) Metropolitan High School, dubs her Cher Horowitz is very short, and the pen is isn’t just for English majors Whit Stillman’s indie-fi lm gem from (Alicia Silverstone) and puts her in a anymore. The sharp-witted 1990 is set among the debutantes and yellow plaid skirt suit, among other eye- very sharp. author of six classic novels upper-class toff s of ’80s Manhattan, popping outfi ts. We’re still watching it including Pride and Prejudice as observed by a middle-class more than two decades later. Jand Emma has entered the pop culture Princeton student who joins their — Terry Pratchett domain — and just won’t leave. Today, circle. A discussion of Mansfi eld Park Bridget Jones’ Diary her fi ction is the basis for many fi lm by the fi lm’s characters makes explicit Helen Fielding’s 1998 novel about and TV adaptations (Jane made Colin Stillman’s homage to the author. a boozy weight-obsessed, chain- Firth an international star) as well as the Stillman is still at it: In 2016 he will smoking, single girl on the loose in template for countless rom-com movies release Love & Friendship, a fi lm based contemporary London wears its Pride or romance novels. on an unfi nished Austen story, along and Prejudice credentials on its sleeve. Community Editor But perhaps the strangest with a companion novel. There’s even a character named Mark development is the unlikely mashups Darcy, played in the hit 2001 movie Kamran Rehmat — we’re looking at you, zombies — Clueless by Colin Firth, the swoon-worthy Mr. e-mail: [email protected] that bring all manner of monsters and Amy Heckerling’s 1995 fi lm is a Darcy of the 1995 BBC miniseries. Telephone: 44466405 other fantasy creatures into the Austen work of pop culture brilliance that has Fax: 44350474 universe. Here’s a roundup of some of attained classic status itself. Clueless The Jane Austen Book Club the most notable, not to mention the takes the know-it-all heroine of Emma In 2004, Karen Joy Fowler (whose last most unlikely, Jane Austen remixes. and transports her to a Beverly Hills book was a Man Booker Prize fi nalist) Friday, April 29, 2016 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY wrote this clever riff on Jane Austen and Austenmania. The book club of the title is composed of fi ve women and one man, and readers follow their monthly discussions of Austen’s novels and see the contemporary resonances in the characters’ lives — and our own. Skip the forgettable 2007 movie. Lost In Austen Don’t call Emma Campbell Webster’s Lost in Austen a novel: This 2007 book is an interactive Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, an homage both to Pride and Prejudice and to the Choose Your Own Adventure books with their multiple possible storylines. You, the reader, are Elizabeth Bennet, and “your mission is to marry both prudently, and for love” — with the help of Confi dence and Intelligence points (but no Fortune or Accomplishments). Now go. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies This 2009 novel is the ultimate mash-up — into verbatim passages of the 1813 classic, author Seth Grahame-Smith has inserted a legion of the undead to stalk the poor put-upon Bennet sisters. The 2016 movie version features plenty of ladies in Empire-waist frocks swinging swords and busting out martial arts moves. Newsday fi lm critic Rafer Guzmán called it “an unexpected treat.” Jane Austen’s Fight Club Jane Austen, meet Chuck Pahluniuk. In this hilarious three- plus-minute YouTube clip, life for Austen’s Regency heroines has “become an endless surrender to propriety” — until, that is, Lizzie shows up and instigates the Fight Club of the title. The rules are simple: “No corsets. No hat pins. No crying.” Other than that, anything goes. Death Comes to Pemberley The last novel published by English crime writer P.D. James before her death in 2014, Death Comes to Pemberley is — naturally — a mystery set six years after the end of Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy are married, and sister Lydia’s husband, Wickham, is accused of a murder. Reviewing it for Newsday, Ed Siegel praised James’ “graceful writing” but knocked the “lifelessness of its characters.” The Lizzie Bennet Diaries “Who am I? I am a 24-year-old grad student with a mountain of student loans, living at home and preparing for a career. But to my mom, the only thing that matters is that I’m single. My name is Lizzie Bennet, and this is my life.” So begins this 100-part web series created by Bernie Su, and narrated vlog-style by actress Ashley Clements. The P&P gang is all here, including Jane, Lydia, William but a fully imagined rejoinder to with hard-core gamers, you’ll fi nd Undead and Emma expansions are the star of a Bachelor-style reality Darcy and Bing Lee. Pride and Prejudice that casts a them playing this card game created available. show. It’s the latest installment sharp working-class eye on the by Erika Svanoe with art by Erik in The Austen Project, which has Longbourn aristocratic antics of Elizabeth Evensen. Between 2-6 players take Eligible tapped contemporary authors to Jo Baker’s 2013 novel — which Bennet, Mr. Darcy and their the roles of Pride and Prejudice’s Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel update Austen’s six classics. To date cleverly tells the Bennet family friends.” Austen, she concludes, marriageable young ladies, recasts Pride and Prejudice in 21st- we’ve had Joanna Trollope’s Sense story from the perspective of would approve. collecting points (via character century Cincinnati, making Lizzie and Sensibility, Val McDermid’s the household servants — is cards) and vying for eligible a 38-year-old writer-at-large Northanger Abbey and Alexander “no mere riff ,” wrote Wendy Marrying Mr. Darcy bachelors through the courtship for a women’s magazine, Darcy a McCall Smith’s Emma. —Newsday/ Smith in her Newsday review,” Wherever Austen fans intersect and proposal stages of the game. brain surgeon and “Chip” Bingley TNS 4 GULF TIMES Friday, April 29, 2016 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND Can an aspirin a day keep heart attacks at bay? are and answer questions to help By Allie Shah determine whether aspirin is something they should consider taking regularly. innesota doctors However, for those who are welcomed recent older or younger than the group US federal health highlighted in the new guidelines, guidelines on daily questions linger. use of low-dose Jerry Weld, 82, said he wasn’t sure Maspirin to prevent heart attacks and whether he should keep taking his strokes. The new advice (as per US daily aspirin pill after he heard about health guidelines) — which spells the latest advice from the federal out by age and risk who is likely to task force. “It wasn’t clear for my age benefi t from taking an 81 milligram- group,” he said. pill a day — is clear and helpful, Weld started taking aspirin after many doctors say. he’d had a heart stent put in and his “We’ve had a lot of patients who health providers recommended it, he decided for whatever reason on said. The new recommendations are their own to start taking aspirin,” for people who haven’t had previous said Dr Rae Ann Williams, who heart issues, Williams said. specialises in internal medicine at Hirsch pointed out that the HealthPartners’ Como Clinic in St guidelines don’t say NOT to take a Paul. “This recommendation really daily baby aspirin if you’re younger helps us tailor that recommendation than 50 or older than 60. They simply and have a much better conversation state that there isn’t enough data with patients about whether or not to support a recommendation for they are at high risk, and help guide people outside the 50-59 age range. them in their decision-making.” “Because it doesn’t really tell you Numerous studies have shown what to do below 50 or after 59, I do that taking a low-dose aspirin a day fear it creates confusion,” he said.