Teen girl: I wonder what Marilyn Monroe does in her spare time.
Teen guy: Lie in her coffin?
–2 train
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
Guy #1: It was artsy, girls don’t like that.
Guy #2: How is it artsy? He ripped off a guy’s nuts!
–Loews 34th St. men’s room
Overheard by: Dan Dickinson
Dude: I thought it was great. Very visually arresting. I liked how they stayed true to the visual style of the comic book. Of course I say that having never read the comic book.
–Regal Cinemas Union Square
Overheard by: Greg Rutter
