<b><a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/003564.html"><i>Overheard in New York: The Movie</i></a></b><br/> Girl: I am glad you don't think she's prettier than me.<br/>Guy: <em>What</em>? She is like, trailer trash.<br/>Girl: No, she's really pretty.<br/>Guy: <em>What are you talking about</em>? She is some lady they found in the parking lot by the garbage. They were like, "Hey lady, we will give you $20 to do this."<br/>Girl: ...she is like, the American standard of beauty.<br/>Guy: She is a dumpster-diving <i>prostitute</i>!<br/><br/>--Access Digital Theatres, Prospect Park<br/><br/>Overheard by: matt stohrer<br/><br/>Guy: Can I just say, maybe <em>Zorro</em> shouldn't be the first American movie you see.<br/><br/>--83rd & Broadway<br/><br/>Little boy: Why didn't Harry Potter just take a shotgun and blow that guy's head off?<br/><br/>--Loews Kips Bay Theatre, 2nd Avenue<br/><br/>Overheard by: Mark Schilsky<br/><br/>Girl #1: Shh! I can't hear what he's saying!<br/>Girl #2: Bitch, you read the book already!<br/><br/>--DGA Theater, West 57th Street<br/><br/>Black chick #1: Girl, he so fine.<br/>Black chick #2: Mmm...<br/>Queer: Yes, we <em>all know</em> he's fine, but shut the fuck up!<br/><br/>--AMC Empire 25, West 42nd Street<br/><br/>Overheard by: Scott Hoffman<br/><br/>Girl: So for the last half-hour of <em>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants</em> I couldn't stop crying. Then everybody in the theater turned around and laughed at me.<br/><br/>--Waverly & Mercer<br/><br/>Overheard by: Stu<br/><br/>Guy #1: You still fixing vans for that production house?<br/>Guy #2: Yeah, I even got in a movie. Check me out in <em>Prime</em>; it's with Uma Thurman. I'm in it for like 20 seconds playing basketball on the street with a red do-rag. I was like 30 pounds heavier then; I just got out of jail.<br/><br/>--DMV, Greenwich Street<br/><br/>Overheard by: Anthony Bloodsucker<br/><br/>Black woman: All these assholes going to the movies...Lowest common denominator!<br/><br/>--Loews Lincoln Square ladies' room, West 68th Street<br/><br/>Overheard by: Amanda K<br/><br/>Girl: I heard there's an Asian girl in the new <em>Harry Potter</em>.<br/>Guy: Yeah.<br/>Girl: So they are branching out.<br/>Guy: Yeah...but she is kinda big.<br/><br/>--Beard Papa's, Broadway & Astor<br/><br/>Overheard by: sim choo<br/><br/>Girl: I am dating two different guys with kids and no one will take me to see <em>Harry Potter</em>. Now <em>that</em>'s fucked up.<br/><br/>--Eatery, 9th Avenue<br/><br/>Overheard by: Mike<br/><br/>Suit: I think you would really like <em>As Good As It Gets</em>.<br/>Woman: Is that the one with Jennifer Aniston?<br/>Suit: No, it's Helen Keller.<br/><br/>--75th & 3rd<br/><br/>Overheard by: Aaron Hotfelder<br/><br/><br/>via <a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/">Overheard in New York</a>, Dec 8, 2005