Near the end of our chat, he paused, looked down at my leg, and asked why I was bleeding on his floor. I told him I had slipped a few hours before and ripped a hole in my shin, down to the bone, about the size of a one-ruble coin. Blood had soaked through the gauze, and I needed stitches. So he pointed me to the building next door, where in about 20 minutes I had my leg propped up on a dark wooden desk and was wincing at the sting of a vigorous alcohol-swabbing by the health minister himself. I was not accustomed to such personalized government service. Fake countries have to try harder, I thought, and wondered whether it would be pressing my luck to ask for the finance minister to personally refund my vat and for the transportation minister to confirm my bus ticket back to Georgia, which is to say, back to reality.
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Photo: Greg Keraghosian. Master barber Kachik Aristakesyan, right, and his team deliver haircuts and wisecracks at a fast pace. I fell in love with it instantly — from my perspective as an ethnic Armenian who had never been to this country, it was a living museum left over from the Soviet era, with a hand-crafted tin ceiling, chandeliers, wood wall paneling, heavily scuffed hardwood floors, a garden maintained by an elderly woman, off-duty barbers playing backgammon, and giant hair clippers that sounded like chainsaws. David joked he would cut me seven times, but all he gave me was a close shave.
My Shave at an Amazing 75-Year-Old Armenian Barbershop
If we're being honest, Netflix's catalogue of original movies can be hit and miss. What starts as a well-intentioned film goes off the rails, and with so many of them being made and released, it's hard to know which ones are worth watching and which ones are going to be so fully insane that it becomes meme fodder Bird Box. We're talking about Bird Box. Instead of guessing and checking two hours later, check out our list of 25 of Netflix's best original movies. If you can get past the fact that a cruise line definitely bought a share of this movie as sponsored content, then Like Father becomes a really touching tale of an estranged father and daughter played by two of the most likable performers in Hollywood today.
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