six degrees of seperation of ...
Jim
Is this an appropriate NG for this?
Some names to try...
Ashley Judd
Jean Stapleton
Jackie Gleason
Stockard Channing
Reba Macintire (TV movie)
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Jim
JLplsSS
>Kevin Bacon.
>
>Is this an appropriate NG for this?
> Some names to try.
1. Jean Stapleton was in "Michael" with John Travolta
2. John Travolta was in "Broken Arrow" Christian Slater
3. Christian Slater was in "Murder in the First" with Kevin Bacon
You could go the same route (3 steps) with Stockard Channing who was in Grease
with John Travolta, but to make it more interesting,
1. Stockard starred (ironically) in a movie called "Six Degrees of Separation"
with Anthony Rapp
2. Anthony was in the original broadway production of "Rent" with Daphne
Rubin-Vega
3. Daphne was "Wild Things" with Kevin Bacon
Ashley Judd was in "Where the Heart is" with Stockard Channing (4 steps), but a
faster route is:
1. Ashley was in "Double Jeopardy" with Tommy Lee Jones
2. Tommy Lee was in "JFK" with Kevin Bacon
1. Jackie Gleason was in "Nothing in Common" with Tom Hanks
2. Tom Hanks was in "Apollo 13" with Kevin Bacon
1. Reba McEntire was in "One Night at McCools" with Matt Dillon who starred in
2. "Wild Things" with Mr. Bacon
How about some others?
John Wayne
Greta Garbo
Stephanie Zimbalist
Katie Couric (appearances on Cheers and Murphy Brown)
Savion Glover (tap dancer)
Ed Marinaro
Lassie
Bill Bixby
Jill Goodacre
Frank Gifford
Bud Cort
Donna
My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y
>Kevin Bacon.
>
>Is this an appropriate NG for this?
> Some names to try...
Just to bring it to its logical conclusion:
Adolf Hitler (yes, him) has a Bacon number of 4, not counting archive
footage (if you count archive footage it's bound to be lower; archive
footage of Hitler appears in about a million movies).
He was in "Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker" with
Leni Riefenstahl who was in "Jeux de la XXIeme Olympiade" with
Bruce Jenner who was in "The Big Tease" with
Kylie Bax who was in "We Married Margo" with
Kevin Bacon.
So there.
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John Harkness
wrote:
It's appropriate, but it's sooooo five years ago.
Reba's one degree. She's in Tremors with Kevin Bacon
Jean Stapleton's two degrees. She's in Klute with Donald Sutherland,
who's in JFK with Kevin Bacon
Likewise Stockard Channing, who's in Six Degrees of Separation with
Donald Sutherland, who's in JFK with Kevin Bacon.
Ashley Judd's a two -- In Double Jeopardy with Tommy Lee Jones, who's
in JFK with Kevin Bacon.
Jackie Gleason.... hmmmm.... in Nothing In Common with Hector
Elizondo, who's in Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts, who's in
Flatliners with Kevin Bacon.
You want a challenge, try Eva Peron.
John Harkness
Joe Gillis
Something that's puzzled me for years:
Exactly what did Kevin Bacon do to be worthy of all this hubbub?
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of films. Obviously, somewhere along the line he decided quantity was
better than quality.
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JohnG
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> Just to bring it to its logical conclusion:
>
> Adolf Hitler (yes, him) has a Bacon number of 4, not counting archive
> footage (if you count archive footage it's bound to be lower; archive
> footage of Hitler appears in about a million movies).
>
> He was in "Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker" with
> Leni Riefenstahl who was in "Jeux de la XXIeme Olympiade" with
> Bruce Jenner who was in "The Big Tease" with
> Kylie Bax who was in "We Married Margo" with
> Kevin Bacon.
>
The fact that you were able to connect Kevin Bacon to Hitler using Klie Bax
is truly, uh,. . . .I don't know what. But it is truly something.
Although talking Kevin Bacon and his degrees is like going back into time 6
years ago.
John
Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y
JohnG <john...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>The fact that you were able to connect Kevin Bacon to Hitler using Klie Bax
>is truly, uh,. . . .I don't know what. But it is truly something.
Well, I didn't have to do it myself, there's a web page with a cute
little program on it that automatically connects actors to Kevin
Bacon. Uses IMDb data, I think. The only thing I did manually was
the connection to Hitler via Riefenstahl (because the automatic
linking also accepts actors credited for "archive footage", of
which there is a lot featuring Hitler; I had to handpick a film
where he appeared on purpose).
Dave Mansell
> In article <a1k5lm$pa8$1...@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>,
> JohnG <john...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >The fact that you were able to connect Kevin Bacon to Hitler using
> Klie Bax
> >is truly, uh,. . . .I don't know what. But it is truly something.
>
> Well, I didn't have to do it myself, there's a web page with a cute
> little program on it that automatically connects actors to Kevin
> Bacon. Uses IMDb data, I think. The only thing I did manually was
> the connection to Hitler via Riefenstahl (because the automatic
> linking also accepts actors credited for "archive footage", of
> which there is a lot featuring Hitler; I had to handpick a film
> where he appeared on purpose).
>
I'll have to try that, since I've met pretty much all the actors from
Babylon 5 I bet I'm within 6 degrees, what's the url?
Dave
R. Cohen
That's the point
Brian Trosko
> You want a challenge, try Eva Peron.
Eva Peron to Fernando Rey in La Prodiga.
Fernando Rey to Kevin Dunn in 1492
Dunn to Bacon in Stir of Echoes.
I see your Eva Peron, and raise you Bill Wyman.
Brian Trosko
> John Wayne
Easy for fans of John Wayne. Wayne was with Robert Wagner in The Longest
Day, Wager was in Wild Things.
> Greta Garbo
Oooh...good one. No idea.
> Stephanie Zimbalist
She was in The Awakining with Miriam Margolyes, who was in Balto.
> Katie Couric (appearances on Cheers and Murphy Brown)
Do teevee appearences count for the game? She was in New York City with
DeNiro, and DeNiro was in Sleepers with Bacon.
> Savion Glover (tap dancer)
The Wall, with Michael DeLorenzo, who was in A Few Good Men
> Ed Marinaro
In Queens Logic, with Bacon
> Lassie
No idea.
> Bill Bixby
In Kentucky Fried Movie with Donald Sutherland who was later in JFK
> Jill Goodacre
Dunno.
> Frank Gifford
In Jerry McGuire with Jay Moore, who was in Picture Perfect.
> Bud Cort
Million Dollar Hotel, with Amanda Plummer, who was in Elizabeth Jane.
Nick Cave? Roger Ebert?
Brian Trosko
> Adolf Hitler (yes, him) has a Bacon number of 4, not counting archive
> footage
3
To Julian Rivero via Rio Rita, thence to Robert Wagner via Broken Lance,
thence to Wild Things and Kevin Bacon.
Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y
Dave Mansell <nos...@cariad.net> wrote:
>In article <a1k6ge$qgb$1...@tyfon.itea.ntnu.no>, lei...@pvv.ntnu.no (Leif
>Magnar Kj|nn|y) wrote:
>
>> Well, I didn't have to do it myself, there's a web page with a cute
>> little program on it that automatically connects actors to Kevin
>> Bacon.
>
>Babylon 5 I bet I'm within 6 degrees, what's the url?
If you go to google and type in "Kevin Bacon" it should actually
be the very first item on the search list.
Mind you, this specific linking game only uses "appeared in the
same film together" as a valid relation, just meeting someone
doesn't count. That would be a different linking game altogther,
and one that's too bloody easy considering that almost everyone at
least knows someone who's met some famous politician and *those*
guys meet with each other all the time, and there you have it.
For instance, I'm just your average Norwegian nerd. An English
teacher I had in high school once met Ronald and Nancy Reagan,
so I'm only two steps from Ronnie and three steps from everyone
he ever met (consider how many famous people *that* amounts
to). Through a couple of other paths I'm four "met someone once"
steps from Lenin and the rest of the early Soviet leadership on
one hand, and Winston Churchill on the other. In fact I'm also
at most four steps from Osama bin Laden, and that isn't even funny.
John Harkness
Hmmm, Bill Wyman's in Eat The Rich, I think that's his only acting
appearance, which gives us Robbie Coltrane
Coltrane's in The world is Not Enough with DENISE RICHARDS, who
appears in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon.
John Harkness
Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y
Yeah, but ol' Adolf's credited appearance in Rio Rita is just another
case of archive footage (or rather voice only, it would seem). I'm
kind of betting he didn't actively participate in the production of
an American wartime comedy about Abbot and Costello messing around
with Nazi spies. I thought I'd limit myself to movies where he
appeared on purpose, which basically amounts to a few "documentary"
(propaganda) films from the thirties and early forties. Such movies
tend to lack real actors; I needed someone who had also been in other
films to provide a connection with modern Hollywood, and there was
Riefenstahl performing a dance in that Olympia flick...
John Harkness
>JLplsSS <jlp...@aol.comnospam> wrote:
>
>> John Wayne
>
>Easy for fans of John Wayne. Wayne was with Robert Wagner in The Longest
>Day, Wager was in Wild Things.
>
>> Greta Garbo
>
>Oooh...good one. No idea.
>
Easier than you'd think, really....
Garbo's in Ninotchka with Bela Lugosi.
Lusgosi's in The Body Snatcher (and several others), with Boris
Karloff
Karloff's in The Terror with Jack Nicholson
Nicholson's in A Few Good Men With Kevin Bacon.
MadNetter
"Joe Gillis" <cinema...@aol.comedy> wrote in message
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>
>
> Exactly what did Kevin Bacon do to be worthy of all this hubbub?
>
I heard a story, which is probably bullshit, that when Will Smith was
offered the role in "Six Degrees Of Separation", he misheard the title and
said "Why would I want to be in a movie about Kevin Bacon?" Sounds too cute
to actually be true.
Kevin "Not Bacon - Hell, Not Even Kline" Cogliano
Arnold Kim
Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y <lei...@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote in message
news:a1kb6i$t9d$1...@tyfon.itea.ntnu.no...
> In article <memo.2002011...@dmansell.compulink.co.uk>,
> Dave Mansell <nos...@cariad.net> wrote:
> >In article <a1k6ge$qgb$1...@tyfon.itea.ntnu.no>, lei...@pvv.ntnu.no (Leif
> >Magnar Kj|nn|y) wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I didn't have to do it myself, there's a web page with a cute
> >> little program on it that automatically connects actors to Kevin
> >> Bacon.
> >
> >I'll have to try that, since I've met pretty much all the actors from
> >Babylon 5 I bet I'm within 6 degrees, what's the url?
>
> If you go to google and type in "Kevin Bacon" it should actually
> be the very first item on the search list.
>
> Mind you, this specific linking game only uses "appeared in the
> same film together" as a valid relation, just meeting someone
> doesn't count. That would be a different linking game altogther,
> and one that's too bloody easy considering that almost everyone at
> least knows someone who's met some famous politician and *those*
> guys meet with each other all the time, and there you have it.
I not only went to school with Mira Sorvino's brother for seven years, but
also was in a couple of school plays with him. Would that count?
And yes, even if you're not using the family relation, he _did_ have a small
part in "Summer of Sam".
Arnold Kim
Reagen Sulewski
news:3c3d86f6....@nntp.attcanada.ca:
> On 10 Jan 2002 15:13:51 GMT, Brian Trosko <btr...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>JLplsSS <jlp...@aol.comnospam> wrote:
>>
>>> John Wayne
>>
>>Easy for fans of John Wayne. Wayne was with Robert Wagner in The
>>Longest Day, Wager was in Wild Things.
>>
>>> Greta Garbo
>>
>>Oooh...good one. No idea.
>>
> Easier than you'd think, really....
Easier than you'd think for just about everyone, really. The real
challenge for Bacon-ologists is finding someone who is connected but -
can't- be connected in less than 4 moves. There's a fair number of
infinity level actors (who can;t be connected in any way) but they're not
really known to anyone (mostly appearing in obscure Sri Lankan films, or
the like).
Mpoconnor7
Ed Marinaro was on Hill Street Blues. Tim Robbins once guest starred on HSB.
Tim Robbins was in "Mission to Mars" with Gary Sinese, who was in "Apollo 13"
with KB.
>Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby was in "The Incredible Hulk" with Lou Ferrigno, who was in "Pumping
Iron" with Schwartzeneggar, who was in "The Terminator" with Michael Biehn, who
was in "The Rock" with Ed Harris, who was in "Apollo 13" with KB.
>Stephanie Zimbalist
She was in Remington Steele with Pierce Brosnan, who was in "Dante's Peak" with
Linda Hamilton, who was in "The Terminator" with Michael Biehn, etc.
>John Wayne
He was in "True Grit" with Robert Duvall, who was in "Deep Impact" with Morgan
Freeman, who was in "Bonfire of the Vanites with Tom Hanks, who was in "Apollo
13" with KB.
>Katie Couric (appearances on Cheers and Murphy Brown)
She was on Cheers with Ted Danson, who was in "Saving Private Ryan" with Tom
Hanks, etc.
>Lassie
June Lockhart was in the Lassie TV series, and she was also in the 1998 "Lost
in Space" movie with William Hurt, who was in "Broadcast News" with Albert
Brooks, who was in "Out of Sight" with George Clooney", who was in "Batman and
Robin" with Arnold, etc.
>Frank Gifford
Frank was on Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell, who was in "Bananas"
with Woody Allen, who was in "Sleeper" with Diane Keaton, who was in "Reds"
with Jack Nicholson, who was in "A Few Good Men" with Noah Wyle, who was on ER
with Clooney, etc.
And I did all these without even mentioning JFK.
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
"The probability of one person being right increases in a direct porportion to
the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
Mpoconnor7
>Elizondo, who's in Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts, who's in
>Flatliners with Kevin Bacon.
Gleason was in "Nothing in Common" with Tom Hanks, who was in "Apollo 13" with
KB.
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
Mpoconnor7
>of films. Obviously, somewhere along the line he decided quantity was
>better than quality.
>
Another thing is that he has acted with virtually every major star in his
various films, and has been in movies like JFK which had scores of stars in it.
Too bad he didn't have a cameo in "The Player"; then you could have connected
him to virtually everybody.
Brian Trosko
> Another thing is that he has acted with virtually every major star in his
> various films, and has been in movies like JFK which had scores of stars in it.
Yah. I have a friend who is *excellent* at the Kevin Bacon game, but he's
not really playing the Kevin Bacon game. He's playing the John Candy
game, and just connecting to Kevin Bacon through JFK. If you're familiar
with one actor, you can probably link him to Kevin Bacon and then go from
there.
Bob
Reagen Sulewski wrote:
Are you thereby implying that there are Sri Lankan films that are NOT
obscure?
Bob
robert hall
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My sister and I recently started doing the U2 game-- try and connect U2 to
other bands/musicians and actors in the least number of steps. It's a lot
of fun. We've done the Gene Hackman game also (since he has been in soooo
many movies).
Rob
robert hall
robert hall
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Rob
Bob
robert hall wrote:
Ah, but is he not obscure? ( This assumes he is not a film.) ;-)
Bob
T Berk
Oooooooooowwwww.
TBerk
T Berk
<snip>
> > > >>> Greta Garbo
> > > >>
> > > >>Oooh...good one. No idea.
> > > >>
> > > > Easier than you'd think, really....
> > >
> > > Easier than you'd think for just about everyone, really. The real
> > > challenge for Bacon-ologists is finding someone who is connected but -
> > > can't- be connected in less than 4 moves. There's a fair number of
> > > infinity level actors (who can;t be connected in any way) but they're
> not
> > > really known to anyone (mostly appearing in obscure Sri Lankan films, or
> > > the like).
> >
> > Are you thereby implying that there are Sri Lankan films that are NOT
> > obscure?
> > Bob
> >
> I have a friend who's Sri Lankan.
>
> Rob
I had a 'short period of my life' w/ a half Sri Lankanian, So; I'm
connected to Kevin Bacon!. Cool!
8]
TBerk
Willo
"Jim" <mart...@surfbest.net> wrote:
> Ashley Judd
Easy.
Judd - Tommy Lee Jones (Double Jeopardy)
Tommy Lee Jones - Bacon (JFK)
> Jean Stapleton
Stapleton - Tom Hanks (You've Got Mail)
Tom Hanks - Bacon (Apollo 13)
> Jackie Gleason
Gleason - Richard Pryor (The Toy)
Richard Pryor - Kevin Pollack (Another You)
Kevin Pollack - Bacon (A Few Good Men)
> Stockard Channing
Channing - Ashley Judd (Where the Heart Is)
Ashley Judd - Tommy Lee Jones (Double Jeopardy)
Tommy Lee Jones - Bacon (JFK)
> Reba Macintire
(spelled McEntire)
Was in Tremors w/ Bacon.
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j...@attcanada.ca (John Harkness) wrote:
> You want a challenge, try Eva Peron.
Eva was in Pródiga, La with Paola Barbara
Who was with James Garner in Sledge
Who was with Donald Sutherland in Space Cowboys
Who was with Kevin Bacon in JFK.
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SpaceRook
>Kevin Bacon.
>
>Is this an appropriate NG for this?
> Some names to try...
>
>Ashley Judd
>Jean Stapleton
>Jackie Gleason
>Stockard Channing
>Reba Macintire (TV movie)
>
>
Here are some others to consider:
Pee Wee Herman
Christopher Lee
Bruce Campbell
Jason Schwatzmann
Christopher Reeve
BTW: When Bacon took a role in JFK, this game got a helluva lot easier.
John Harkness
wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:33:02 -0700, "Jim" <mart...@surfbest.net> wrote:
>
>>Kevin Bacon.
>>
>>Is this an appropriate NG for this?
>> Some names to try...
>>
>>Ashley Judd
>>Jean Stapleton
>>Jackie Gleason
>>Stockard Channing
>>Reba Macintire (TV movie)
>>
>>
>
>Here are some others to consider:
>
>Pee Wee Herman
>Christopher Lee
>Bruce Campbell
>Jason Schwatzmann
>Christopher Reeve
Peewee Herman (Paul Rubens) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Donald
Sutherland, Sutherland in JFK with Kevin Bacon
Schwartzman in Rushmore with Bill Murray, Murray in Wild Things with
Kevin Bacon
Reeve in Switching Channels with Kathleen Turner, Turner in Prizzi's
Honor with Jack Nicholson, Nicholson in A Few Good Men with Kevin
Bacon
Christopher Lee in Lord of the Rings with Liv Tyler, Liv Tyler in A
Night at McCool's with Matt Dillon, Dillon in Wild Things with Kevin
Bacon
Bruce Campbell in The Majestic with Martin Landau, Landau in Ed Wood
with Bill Murray, Murray in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon.
John Harkness
Jim
"Jim" <mart...@surfbest.net> wrote in message
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> Kevin Bacon.
>
> Is this an appropriate NG for this?
> Some names to try...
>
> Ashley Judd
> Jean Stapleton
> Jackie Gleason
> Stockard Channing
> Reba Macintire (TV movie)
>
>
> __________________________
> Jim
>
>
John Harkness
wrote:
>How about Ronald Regan?
>
Ronald Reagan's in The Killers with John Cassavetes, John Cassavetes'
is in The Dirty Dozen with Donald Sutherland, Sutherland's in JFK with
Kevin Bacon.
John Harkness
>