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Still, the change in E.T. that left me shaking my head and chuckling the most involved a snatch of dialogue spoken by mom Mary (Dee Wallace) in reference to son Michael's (Robert MacNaughton) Halloween costume. Reportedly, in the original cut, Mary forbids Michael from walking through the neighborhood dressed as a "terrorist." But in this new version, she now forbids him from walking through the neighborhood dressed as a "hippie."
Only in George W. Bush's America would a "hippie" be construed as the benign alternative to a "terrorist." *
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