Audacious women When “Legally Blonde” came out in 2001, its lead character, Elle Woods, inspired women to look at their shallow ex-boyfriends and ask about their achievements (“What? Like it’s hard?”) Now, viewers will get a bit more of the lead character’s origin story in the new prequel series “ Elle .” Elle Woods (Lexi Minetree) navigates high school politics while managing her own adolescence in this series set in 1995. The original Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon, signed on to the project as