Shopgirl

[yesthattom]

One of the few fiction books I’ve had time to read in recent years is going to be a movie released this month. I loved this book and I’m so looking forward to seeing the movie.
Watch the preview
www.ShopGirlmovie.com

Comments

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

A less evil link for the preview:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/shopgirl/

And I gather this was the link you wanted for the 2nd one?

http://shopgirl.movies.go.com/
(ShopGirl.com is a parked search engine..)

More reading

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

"The Pleasure of My Company" by the same author is also quite good.

I'm glad people are finally realizing exactly the kind of massive genius Steve Martin is. I saw it when I was nine and he was doing the arrow through the head thing. Superficially inane, but there was something behind it, man.

Re: More reading

[cos]

I hadn't realized at first that the Steve Martin who wrote Shop Girl was the same one who was in movies, until I heard an interview with him on NPR (Fresh Air, I think). He was talking about writing books and plays and being in movies and playing the banjo - it was the banjo that caught my attention. Someone called in to gush about how much she'd liked some play of his. I was out in California at the time, and soon after visited a bookstore and looked for him and found The Pleasure of My Company, which I really liked. When I got back to Boston I borrowed a book of his plays from dreams_of_wings. But, I still don't have any recordings of him playing banjo :)

[cos]

Esther read Shop Girl to me in the car, in installments, over a series of drives, a couple of years ago.

Re: More reading

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

When he was on Letterman a year or so ago (during the filming) Dave asked him about the book and the movie and Martin said how after a big search they were so lucky to find the perfect person to write the screenplay of the book. "And I was so surprised that it was ME!"