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  Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on a variation of the concept of the small world phenomenon which states that any actor can be linked, through their film roles, to Kevin Bacon.
Edward Asner was in JFK (1991) with Kevin Bacon
Xander Berkeley was in Apollo 13 (1995) with Kevin Bacon
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 Kevin Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born on July 8, 1958, Bacon, the youngest of six children, was raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia.
Bacon's long-awaited exposure from these two films proved a mixed blessing for the actor, however, who found himself saddled with a new concern—-that he had become so strongly associated with his Diner and Footloose characters he would not be able to shake their images.
Bacon resurrected his oddball mystique also that year as a retarded houseguest in Digging to China and again as a disc jockey corrupted by the lure of payola in Telling Lies in America.
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 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - JREF Forum
A degree is a measure of seperation; you are one degree seperated from your mother because you knew her (probably), but two from your great-great-grandmother, as you know someone who knew her.
Kevin Bacon (0) appeared in the film JFK with Martin Sheen (1), who went to high school in Dayton OH with my Dad (2), who is at least half responsible for me (3) being here...true story.
The Oracle of Bacon at the University of Virginia
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 Kevin Bacon - Uncyclopedia
Kevin Bacon is the only person in the whole world who is not within six degrees of
That was when Kevin Bacon was created through the union of a seacow and a aardvark.
Kevin Bacon was so angry one day(since tv and movies had yet to be invented), that he put a roofie in this girl's drink and raped her.
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 Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon , Actor Famous For His Movie And Game Talks To Vicki Mabrey - CBS News
It's called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," and the object is to link him to every actor in the business.
Bacon's latest film, out next week, is already generating talk of his first Academy Award nomination.
Since then, Bacon has appeared in more than 40 films, but perhaps none that shatter that boyish, carefree image more than his latest movie, "The Woodsman." In the movie, he plays Walter, a recently paroled pedophile, desperately trying to overcome his dark impulses.
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 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The game is intended to prove that actor Kevin Bacon is the center of the Hollywood universe (and, in extreme manifestations of the affliction — the Center of THE Universe) because all other actors are connected to Bacon by a chain rarely longer than 6 and usually as short as 2 actors.
Greta Garbo has a Bacon Number of 3: Garbo appeared in Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) with Clark Gable; Gable was in Combat America (1943) with Tony Romano; Romano was in Starting Over (1979) with Kevin Bacon.
One of those claiming co-authorship of the Kevin Bacon game, Brett C. Tjaden, who maintains The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, has calculated that the average Bacon Number for all actors is 2.8.
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 Kevin Bacon Example
The idea of the game is to connect an actor to Kevin Bacon through a trail of actors who appeared together in movies, and do so in less than six steps.
The Kevin Bacon number will be the shortest distances from each actor to Kevin Bacon.
William Shatner's bacon number is 2 Denise Richards's bacon number is 1 Kevin Bacon's bacon number is 0 Patrick Stewart's bacon number is 2 Steve Martin's bacon number is 1...
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 BBC - h2g2 - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - A623431
Take an actor, any actor, and the Kevin Bacon game will prove that this actor is one tiny interconnected cog in a thespian universe that revolves around The Man Himself: the great and powerful Bacon.
Kevin Bacon fans should not be offended by this.
John Lennon has a Bacon number of two, and his connection to Kevin is none other than the singing, drumming and occasionally acting star of many a mellowed-out middle-aged rocker's record collection: Phil Collins.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A623431   (1248 words)

  
 Six degrees kevin bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Six degrees of separation is the unproven theory that anyone on the planet can...
Tom (I) Arnold was in We Married Margo (2000) with Kevin Bacon...
Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon - CBS News
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 CNN - Kevin Bacon's on everyone's lips - Oct. 25, 1996
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Kevin Bacon's name is being thrown around a lot these days in places you wouldn't expect.
That's how you play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," a cultural phenomenon that's taking the nation by storm.
Bacon's extensive connection to the acting world came to the creators during a drunken evening watching the movie "Six Degrees of Separation," starring Will Smith and Anthony Michael-Hall.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9610/25/kevin.bacon.game   (497 words)

  
 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
You take any actor and hook him up with Kevin Bacon through movies he was in with other people.
Many people don't like to use TV shows and TV movies but according to the creators it is okay but as long as you adhere to the following: If the person was on a TV shows he or she had to have been a regular.
Remember, Kevin Bacon isn't in all of them but they are still great links.
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 SPACE.com -- Space, Society, and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Though some of the movies that appear in the Kevin Bacon Game may be obscure, they serve the purpose of making links between actors who in some cases have never had direct contact.
Though Kevin Bacon might be at the center of the Hollywood universe, this group is seeking the insights from a much larger universe of dignitaries.
And unlike the Kevin Bacon Game, where actors are connected only by virtue of the movies they have appeared in, at the International Astronautical Congress, the boundaries can be brokenacross fields as diverse as space law and biomedicine, or history and aeronautical engineering.
www.space.com /searchforlife/seti_031009.html   (1420 words)

  
 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Kevin Bacon problem is to find the shortest path through this graph from a given actor to Kevin Bacon.
As you'll see in the section on Bacon Numbers, it is very difficult to come up with an actor more than 6 movies away.
Your assignment is to write a program which accepts the name of an actor and prints out the path from that actor to Kevin Bacon.
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 Amazon.com: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Books: Craig Fass,Brian Turtle,Mike Ginelli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kevin Bacon, Few Good Men, Animal House, The Big Picture, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Sharon Stone, She's Having, Steve Guttenberg, The Blob, Gary Oldman, Kevin Costner, Kyra Sedgwick, Steve Martin, The River Wild, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, White Water Summer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Penn, Criminal Law, Joe Pesci, John Candy, John Lithgow, Jon Stewart Show
The introduction by Kevin Bacon himself is interesting to read and so is the history of the game.
Kevin Bacon and the Six Degrees of Separation: A list by R Prieto "rp4pr"
www.amazon.com /Degrees-Kevin-Bacon-Craig-Fass/dp/0452278449   (1295 words)

  
 X-E - The Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon Challenge!
The game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon has long been a testament to the fact that, no matter what, everything in the known universe has in some way come into contact with the actor best known for his unnecessary cockshot in Wild Things...Kevin Bacon.
Both Kevin Bacon and Gizmo have done nude scenes in their respective careers.
Both Kevin Bacon and Gizmo know it's never a good idea to eat a lot of fatty foods after midnight.
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 Six degrees of kevin bacon game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, players are challenged to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through roles in movies common to both.
In the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the actor is linked to other actors both living and dead through film appearances; most performers can be associated...
For those of you who don't know about the six degrees of separation, it's a theory that everyone is...
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 Six degrees to kevin bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon--Al Eskan disease and "dirty dust.".
His career became particularly prolific in the 1990s, leading to the invention of the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which postulates that any actor is...
“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” is a popular game in which players attempt to link the actor to other celebrities, through his many movie roles.
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 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Noting how nicely Kevin Bacon could substitute for "Separation" in the meter, they hypothesized that he might also be the center of the universe, at least when it comes to connecting actors.
For instance, Kevin Bacon links to Kevin Costner in one swift link: Both were in JFK.
The Six Degrees phenomenon has even inspired a Visa commercial where Kevin Bacon jokingly use the "Six Degrees" theory to subsitute for his lack of an I.D. card.
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 Re: Six degrees of Kevin Bacon
In Reply to: Six degrees of separation posted by Henry on October 21, 2004 at 15:37:26:
According to the theory, the maximum degree of separation is six degrees.
The average Bacon number is appparently 2.94, but some stalwarts have come up with Bacons of 7 or even 8, and a 9 has been rumoured to have been found.
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 Six degrees from kevin bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON WITH THE LOTR CAST - Contributions by TORnsibs akascout, Annael, Blue Wizard, Bullroarer, Daisy Took, and Kyriel...
Kevin Fox is a cellist and guitar player residing in Toronto.
The idea behind "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is that the man, Kevin Bacon, is such a prolific person, that every person (with qualifiers depending on the...
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 Financial Cryptography: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The game, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," is explained by Alberto-Laszlo Barabási in his new book, Linked.
Anguilla is the home of Financial Cryptography, and it is a favourite haunt of Kevin and his brother Michael.
That one week in February 1998 had a strange effect on my future, my thinking, and I had no idea how many first degrees of connection I was establishing or would establish as a result of that one week "vacation" in Anguilla.
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 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | How my life became a game
Most people will, at some point, have played "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", the game that challenges you to link the prolific film star to any other in five steps.
If we could remember that every one of us on this planet is connected through six degrees of separation, that we all climbed out of the same swamp, maybe we wouldn't be so quick to rush to war or to turn our backs on our brothers in need.
Here goes: I (Kevin Bacon) was in Flatliners with Julia Roberts, who was in Closer with Jude Law, who was in The Talented Mr Ripley with Gwyneth Paltrow, who was in Seven with Morgan Freeman, who was in The Sum of all Fears with Sir Alan Bates!
film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1568072,00.html   (526 words)

  
 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Figure out the degree number each member of your group has to some famous entertainment figure (a different entertainment figure for each person).
Figure out the degree number any student in your group has to Malcolm Knowles (you cannot use any faculty member at the retreat as part of the degree connection).
Figure out the degree number any member of your group has to some famous historical (not living) person (of your choosing).
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 Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon
Stockard Channing's character ponders that we are connected to everyone in the world...separated at the most by six degrees.
For those of you who ignore Hollywood, Kevin Bacon is a movie actor who has actually been in quite a few flicks.
The object of the game is to find some connection to Kevin Bacon without going past six steps.
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 Six degrees of kevin bacon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon has long been a testament to the fact that, no matter what, everything in the known universe has in some way...
Six degrees of graph theory: Kevin Bacon, Paul Erd˝os, William...
Six Degrees of Someone Who is Coincidentally Named Kevin Bacon.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Or, to go further back into cinematic history, try this: George Formby (who made his last feature film in 1946) can be linked to Kevin Bacon (who made no film appearances before 1978) in two moves.
The Boost website offers a thorough scientific analysis of the maths behind the theory, and explains in detail why the game works, though non-mathematicians may have difficulty understanding some parts of the explanation.
Get to know the man himself with this interview with Kevin Bacon.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A640171   (1145 words)

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