Skyfall on Istanbul
By ANDREW FINKEL
Daniel Craig as James Bond in the film "Skyfall."Francois Duhamel/Sony Pictures, via Associated PressDaniel Craig as James Bond in the film “Skyfall.”
ISTANBUL — I blame James Bond for my romantic vision of Istanbul. I got my first glimpse of the city from the edge of a seat in a dark Philadelphia theater on a Saturday afternoon in the early 1960s, watching Sean Connery save the world from the evils of Spectre in “From Russia with Love.”
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