Date Scientists for the Greater Good?

So there's a whole group of people whose goal in life it is to package science into mass culture. So their endeavors culminate in sometimes mediocre tv shows like "numb3rs" and sometimes into cult icons like Bill Nye. They even paid (via the National Science Foundation) for the back of my head (second post, "0.5 microseconds of baldspot fame") to go to the American Film Institute and learn to stick science into screenplays, a goal that has since waned in awesomeness.

All this comes to mind as I learned that director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Brokeback Mtn) is married to a professor of microbiology in New York Medical College, Jane Lin. And it got me thinking: for all the money it takes to educate screenwriters or teach scientists to write engaging screenplays, one might as well arrange singles night between the two crowds. The reason people don't pursue science is that it's not cool without a moon landing involved. So what I'm thinking is that the solution is to marry it to Jude Law and Brad Pitt.

Of course the obvious flaw to this plan comes from the fact that Ang Lee hasn't made a single science-related film, far from it really. So although a scientist-hollywood pairing makes an excellent New York Times marriage announcement, I suppose it won't advance the cause of humanity.