President-Elect Donald Trump and his family eschewed the bright lights this weekend, preferring to stay in and watch War and Peace videos. "Can you believe my luck? My Secret Santa gave me a boxed set of the digitally enhanced Bondarchuk version, all seven hours. You don't get cheated with this one." The President-Elect showed a surprising familiarity with the many film versions of the Tolstoy classic. "The King Vidor version? What a joke! I mean Audrey Hepburn was a classy lady, but Natasha Rostova? Garbage." Mr. Trump has a definite preference for the Russian versions. "Hearing the Russian just brings it home, even if you have read all that tiny writing. And Bondarchuk just has all the grandeur that I think Tolstoy had in mind, you know, before he became a loser and gave all his money away." During dialog between Pierre Bezukhov and Platon Karataev, Trump turned and asked his wife Melania if the translation was accurate. Mrs. Trump looked up from her knitting as if she wanted to make a point before mumbling, "Yes, Donald."
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