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When I used iTunes for the first time I was dis­ap­pointed that it didn’t have a pre­view fea­ture. Then I fig­ured out by sim­ply double-clicking the title (or ref­er­enced song) iTunes would stream a 30-second preview.

“Duh”, I thought, “It would be fool­ish for Apple to not include a pre­view fea­ture. Think about all the poten­tial sales that would be lost because the user wasn’t sure if they liked the song or not.”

In the recent build of iTunes, ver­sion 4.5 in fact, Apple now includes movie trail­ers. Last night I found the trailer for the upcom­ing Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks flick ‘The Ter­mi­nal’.

As reported by countingdown.com:

>The Ter­mi­nal tells the story of Vik­tor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a vis­i­tor to New York from East­ern Europe, whose home­land erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to Amer­ica. Stranded at Kennedy Air­port with a pass­port from nowhere, he is unau­tho­rized to actu­ally enter the United States and must impro­vise his days and nights in the terminal.

Impressed by the trailer I shared it with my inlaws who agreed that it looked like a good movie. How­ever after shar­ing it with my wife she wasn’t as impressed as I was. After prod­ding her for the rea­son, she swiftly replied “I’m not con­vinced Tom Hanks could be a foreigner.”

Hanks has made out with a mer­maid and a bull mas­tiff. He’s lived near a cannabilis­tic cult and has shared screen time with a vol­cano and a vol­ley­ball.

How on earth can he not be con­vinc­ing in what­ever role he embodies?

What­ever the case, it’s Spiel­berg so count me in.