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Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon
Hey everybody!
I'm sure you know the game -- supposedly, urban legend holds that any actor or actress can be traced back to Kevin Bacon, star of such movies as Footloose, Hollow Man, Friday the 13th, and Stir of Echoes in less than six connections. These connections are made through other movies. For example...
Don Cheadle was in Crash with Brendan Frasier...
Brendan Frazier was in Encino Man with Sean Astin...
Sean Astin was in White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon!
That's three steps! So now I challenge you. Who can find the most distant actor or actress to Kevin Bacon? In some circles, the game extends to attempting to find the sixth, seventh, or even eighth "degree" of Kevin Bacon, but I'm just interested in what you can discover!
The Oracle Of Bacon is a website that crawls through IMDB and other databases to find actors and link them back to Kevin Bacon in the shortest amount of steps possible! The furthest I've been able to discover is Chi Liu, who has a Bacon number of 4! Can you find a more distant match? Have at!
If you find someone notable, type in their name and tell us what their Bacon number is!
Afterthought: To express just how deep this game goes, my father -- who is a no-name extra actor -- is, by the Oracle's search, a Bacon number of 3. In truth, he's a Bacon number of 1 (He did extra work in Hollow Man), but that even an actor as obscure as him with only a tiny bit of his resume on IMDB can still be a 3 is amazing!
