Girl #1: Do you know what movie is playing tonight?
Man: Phantom of the Opera.
Girl #1: Oh!
Man: It’s the 1926 silent version.
Girl #2: How do you make a silent movie from a musical?
–Propect Park Bandshell
Girl #1: Do you know what movie is playing tonight?
Man: Phantom of the Opera.
Girl #1: Oh!
Man: It’s the 1926 silent version.
Girl #2: How do you make a silent movie from a musical?
–Propect Park Bandshell
Teen girl: I wonder what Marilyn Monroe does in her spare time.
Teen guy: Lie in her coffin?
–2 train
Surrounded by four teenage girls, Matt Dillon can only ask: Do you even know what a movie is?
–86th & Columbus
Girl #1: Oh my God, I watched American Treasure last night.
Girl #2: What, no good?
Girl #1: Oh my God it was horrible.
Girl #2: The trailer made it look kind of cool.
Girl #1: That’s what I thought too. But then you actually watch it and there’s nothing about American currency.
–Bar 288, Elizabeth Street
Overheard by: Margaret
Girl: I don’t want to sit there. We can’t see the screen.
Guy: Baby, the screen is 95 feet tall.
–Loews Lincoln Center
Overheard by: G & R
British chick: Now not only do I have to blow up Bank of America, I now have to blow up Macy’s.
–27th Street office
Teenage girl shaking her fist: Fuck you Duane Reade! Gah!
–76th & Broadway
Overheard by: Chella
Woman: I feel like I’m in eastern Europe. This Duane Reade is ghetto.
–Duane Reade, 23rd & 6th
Woman: So I was like, “Move your hand! What is this, Cinemax?”
–Times Square
Girl #1: So, Anakin is Luke and Leia’s father, right?
Girl #2: Right, so who’s Hayden Christensen? Who’s the sexy guy; not the guy with the beard?
Girl #1: Wait, wasn’t Anakin the kid in that scene with Jabba the Hutt, when he was with that ho?…Did they have hos back then?
–F train
Overheard by: Jess
Girl: That’s so scary.
Boy: What?
Girl: The third rail.
Boy: Teah.
Girl: That should be like a movie title or something.
Boy: Third Rail…I should put that in my notebook.
–Trinity School, W. 91st Street
Overheard by: Alexis
Guy #1: Did you watch your Pee Wee’s Playhouse last night?
Guy #2: It didn’t come!
–27th Street office
Worker on phone: Good afternoon, Ms. Swank. We’d like to congratulate you on your recent Academy Award, and ask you to stop by and pick up your copy of Natural Healing.
–The Strand
