Friday, January 9, 2009

My 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Ok, you should all know the premise by now, if not, check the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon page on Wikipedia.

I hadn't thought about my own degree number, till a friend of my on Facebook talked about hers. So that got me thinking and I was surprised to find it was easier to figure out than I thought. See a few years ago I was taking theater classes at the local community college. While there...
  • I performed in The Crucible with John Esteban
  • Who appeared (as an extra) in The New World with Colin Farrell
  • Who appeared in Minority Report with Tom Cruise
  • Who appeared in A Few Good Men with... Kevin Bacon
so that put me at 4 degrees from Keven Bacon... who knew.

Speaking of Bacon (Kevin, not the pork food), the Oracle of Bacon is a great site for finding the shortest distance between two actors (it defaults to Kevin Bacon as one of the two, but you can substitute any two names). What's really impressive is putting in silent film stars like Charlie Chaplin or Fatty Arbuckle and finding out they are both within 3 degrees of Kevin.

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