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...using a sandwich bag in lieu of a condom, but for the most part, you just want to back away slowly in the likelihood he has scabies.All the best parts of the movie are fully embodied in the form of the lovely Claire Danes. In the role of Mirabelle Buttersfield, the titular Shopgirl, Danes has suddenly fully grown up to the woman we’ve seen her become through such movies as “Igby Goes Down,” and she delivers an enchanted performance. Mirabelle is an aspiring artist transplanted to L.A. and then marooned behind...
...goodbye kiss "so formal it might as well have been wearing a tuxedo") and lots of pert social commentary, especially about a Los Angeles subspecies of sexual predators "whose highest accomplishments are that they were cute in high school." But the author is serious about his glove lady, Mirabelle Buttersfield, and about Ray Porter, the fiftysomething man Mirabelle admits into her solitary life. Once Martin fashioned funny-weird balloon animals; now, at 55, he creates funny-sad, nice and not-so-nice people, as real as your morning-after face in the bathroom mirror...
...Shopgirl," the first work of longer fiction by comic-actor-writer Steve Martin, tells the story of Mirabelle Buttersfield, a shy young woman working behind a department-store glove counter, and the men in her life, especially Ray Porter, a wealthy entrepreneur in his 50s. TIME?s Richard Corliss talked with the novella-ist. Here are excerpts...
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