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White House movie night
It was dinner and a movie Sunday night at the White House. (Trivia du jour: First feature-length movie screened in the White House? “Birth of a Nation” in 1915 while Woodrow Wilson, first southern-born president after the Civil War, lived at 1600 Penn.)
Here’s what they saw, what they ate and who was there:
What they saw: “Children of Glory,” the first Hungarian film shown at the White House, recounts Soviet suppression during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. The film centers on the semi-final water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Youth Olympics in December 1956. (Stop reading here if you don’t know want to know the outcome). Hungary went on to win the gold medal.
What they ate: After an “early harvest salad” (avocados, grape tomatoes and maytag blue cheese tartlettes) and toasted couscous, the movie-goers enjoyed miniature veal schnitzel with lemon caper butter or hot smoked salmon on potato pancakes with chive sour cream. Dessert choices were warm apple cake, cinnamon ice cream and “chocolate movie ticket.”
Who was there: The president, Mrs. President and lots of folks, including Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and date (his mother Stacy), actor Tony Curtis and wife Jill Ann, Hungarian-American Coalition President George Dozsa and wife Matilda B., U.S. Ambassador to Hungary April Foley, New York Gov. George Pataki and wife Elizabeth, tennis pro Monica Seles and her mom Efter, Hungarian Ambassador Andres Simonyi and wife Nada P., and several other current and former Hungarian officials.
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