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Steve Martin, the actor, comedian and now best selling novelist seems to be about as likable as a celebrity can be? Yet in the new movie version of his book "Shopgirl" he plays an inexplicable cad. The film is beautifully shot and acted, but the story, although cinematically well told, is totally improbable. Jason Schwartzman is so badly cast as a leading man it almost makes his scenes unwatchable. Yet, Claire Danes rescues the film and makes it thoroughly engrossing with as hearfelt and empathetic a performance as one is likely to see this year. Martin certainly deserves credit for inventing her character in his book; but if they gave an Oscar for casting Ms. Danes as the shopgirl, this movie deserves it.