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Lying half naked atop a marble slab beneath the dome of a building that's hundreds of years old, I have a surprising experience. It has little to do with being without my clothes in front of strangers, or even to do with relishing the occasionally discombobulating experience of being in a strange city on the other side of the world by myself. No, it has to do with shedding layers of dead skin.
Visiting a traditional hammam in Istanbul is the one experience everyone recommends (although it certainly couldn't be classed as a "pampering" spa experience), along with gorging on Turkish delight and arguing with crafty sellers who ply you with apple tea so you buy one of their rugs in the kaleidoscopic-coloured bazaars.
"You won't believe what they can scrape off," one friend tells me before I leave, her eyes wide with intense enjoyment at how disgusting her story is. "Like peeling a potato," she says.
There's little that's relaxing about a hammam - an Arabic word for the spreader of warmth. Left to sweat on the marble rather like a juicy roast, it becomes apparent that bodies are awfully surprising.
The hammams are segregated into female and male sections and I'm surrounded by women at all stages of life. It doesn't take long before I'm filmy with sweat and the woman who's going to give me a traditional scrub and soap has decided I'm cooked enough.
My friend is right; it does look like potato peelings. I feel a perverse kind of pride.
"Turn," she commands, her enormous, pendulous breasts swinging dangerously close to my face. She wears a towel around her middle. Her body is almost as wide as it is long and her face is hardened with work. Her eyes are soft though.
She throws buckets of soapy water over me and, with a rough mitten called a kese, she picks up my various limbs and proceeds to unceremoniously rub me raw.
"Turn," she says again. I obey quickly. I'm hot and burning. I feel pickled. The woman shows me what she has scraped off my body in her hands. My friend is right; it really does look like potato peelings.
I feel a perverse kind of pride in the gruesomeness of it. Bodies are strange, I think, and occasionally disgusting.
After rinsing me, the woman tells me to sit by one of the ornate taps and she begins to wash my hair. It's not like being at a chi-chi Sydney hairdresser, where hipster types ask if the water temperature is acceptable and gently massage my scalp and ask about my day. My hair is pulled and rubbed quickly. It's as though I'm five years old and I feel like crying because shampoo is in my eyes. Nobody has washed my hair with this kind of gruff tenderness in a long time.
After several days of trudging about solo in a strange and delightful city, where there is colour and noise and overwhelming heat, I feel happy. Surprisingly, I feel safe and peaceful. And, oh boy, my skin - bright pink and glowing - has never felt so smooth.


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All hail Doomsday!
The most badass trailer of Superman vs Batman: Dawn of Justice has hit the world. He is here. The slayer of Superman! So we know him as. The reason Superman went missing from the comic universe for a while! He has finally made his entrance (a theatrical one) into the mainstream cinema, and he wouldn't stop at nothing to do it again in front of zillions of live audience.
People who already know him from the DC universe have gone crazy. Those who don't know him, the aforementioned plot details would suffice. We don't want to spoil it for ya!
Looks: So yes even I was surprised when I saw him for the first time in the trailer. He looked more like a ninja turtle if it were not for his laser wielding eyes. Some have been abominating him saying he resembles The Abomination (The Incredible Hulk villain) from the Marvel universe. Ok yes the latter resemblance was quite uncanny. Also, where did the Doomsday mane go? His bones look great. He is big too. Boy I am reminiscent already! But we don't really care, as long as Zack keeps the storyline awesome. I just want his direction to touch Nolan heights. And fingers crossed!
Something tells me, the storyline isn't going to be exactly the same as that of the comics or the animated series. His origins from the trailer seem to be Zod's DNA or something, with some rad Luthor perversion doing some black magic in the backdrop, which is totally unlike the original story.
Whatever the reason for his existence must be or whoever is bringing him to life, we are super-psyched to have him here and thrilled to finally see him get personified into a character that actually looks good.
The world accepts you Doomsday! Welcome!

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This week, a Michigan lady named Sarah Deming sued the makers of "Drive" because she found their trailer misleading. Ms. Deming claims she was promised a movie similar to "Fast Five," only to end up seeing a movie that she claims had "very little driving" in it. No word yet on if she sued the makers of "Schindler's List" for not having enough lists in it, but that suit may soon be on the way.
The question is... does Deming have a case? Was the "Drive" trailer deliberately misleading? Let's figure it out by answering a few questions.
Is it fair to expect this movie to have lots of driving? Well, it is called "Drive." Certainly, that bolsters Deming's argument. And the first minute of the trailer is a virtual orgy of driving goodness. You get Ryan Gosling driving while wearing driving gloves, which means he's serious about driving. You get Gosling saying, "I drive," which again places emphasis on the movie's driviness. You get quick shots of race cars, stunt cars, cars driving backwards, spin-outs, t-bonings, and more. From the trailer, I would expect the movie to be composed of 80% driving. Anything less? FALSE ADVERTISING.
Is this trailer similar to the "Fast Five" trailer? Not applicable. It's not fair to compare the two because "Fast Five" is a sequel, which means you have four previous movies to draw upon to figure out what kind of movie this is. If "Drive" had been titled "Fast Six," then I would have understood the complaint. Also, while the "Drive" trailer features lots of driving, it does NOT feature motorcycles, drag races, police car chases, crashing SUVs, cars dragging giant safes, cars going cliff-diving, and trucks crashing into freakin' trains. Man, that "Fast Five" looks AWESOME! Remind me to rent that ASAP.
Does the movie make any explicit promises to be like "Fast Five," like saying, "from the people who brought you '2 Fast 2 Furious'"? No.
Are there telltale signs that "Drive" won't be like an action-packed Vin Diesel film?Yes. For one, no Vin Diesel. Also, the trailer features both classical music and Albert Brooks, two things enjoyed exclusively by rich people over the age of 52. There are warning signs here that you're getting something a little bit arty in between scenes of Gosling hammering people to death.
Does this woman have a case? NO. You want the smoking gun in this case? Check out the "Best Director, Festival De Cannes 2011" title card in the "Drive" trailer. Would you EVER see that title card in a "Fast Five" trailer? No, you would not. CHECKMATE, Sarah Deming. That title card just lost you untold millions in your brain-dead lawsuit.