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Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema By David A. Kirby The MIT Press, $27.95
The notion of a chasm between the "two cultures" of the sciences and the arts is a familiar one.Logi cally.the gulf between science and Hollywood is surely even wider. After all, popular films are predicated on conflict whereas science seeks consensus; filmmakers want to depict world-changing events happening overnight while science moves incrementally; studios strive for an audience of millions whereas scientists generally communicate with a handful of cognoscenti.And those movie directors always want to blow up...