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Why is it six degrees of Kevin Bacon?

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I don't know why I never thought of this before, but why is it Kevin Bacon? How did the game get his name to be the one that is stuck to the title? There are so many incredibly famous people, how was he so lucky as to be the chosen one? Anyone know?
 
I may be wrong, but I believe the theory is that everyone in hollywood is within 6 "layers" of something involving Kevin Bacon.
i.e. <insert person from saving Ryan's Privates> worked with Tom Hanks (1) who starred in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon (2).
 
Originally posted by: PsharkJF
I may be wrong, but I believe the theory is that everyone in hollywood is within 6 "layers" of something involving Kevin Bacon.
i.e. <insert person from saving Ryan's Privates> worked with Tom Hanks (1) who starred in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon (2).
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thats correct, but why not have it called "six degrees of tom hanks" or "six degrees of julia roberts". thats the OP's question
 
Because "Kevin Bacon" has the same number of syllables as "separation" and rhymes too. And he's in lots of movies.
 
Originally posted by: dionx
Originally posted by: PsharkJF
I may be wrong, but I believe the theory is that everyone in hollywood is within 6 "layers" of something involving Kevin Bacon.
i.e. <insert person from saving Ryan's Privates> worked with Tom Hanks (1) who starred in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon (2).
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thats correct, but why not have it called "six degrees of tom hanks" or "six degrees of julia roberts". thats the OP's question
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IIRC, the people who did the study just liked Kevin Bacon (or some other such trivial reason).
 
Originally posted by: sundevb
And he's in lots of movies.
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:thumbsup:

he has been in about 892 movies

if you do it with an actor with fewer movies, it doesn't work, you never get to kevin bacon


plus anyone with the first name of kevin is 😎
 
Originally posted by: matstars
umm... kevin bacon used to be said to be in every movie. this is a dumb thread.
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pretty much, he was in a lot of movies and mostly in a supporting role. i think that's why people made such a big deal about it, that kevin bacon was in so many movies and yet he was kind of forgettable because he didnt' star in many of them.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: sundevb
And he's in lots of movies.
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:thumbsup:

he has been in about 892 movies

if you do it with an actor with fewer movies, it doesn't work, you never get to kevin bacon


plus anyone with the first name of kevin is 😎
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Most people would be surprised to know that he's only been in about 50 some movies... which is a lot compared to me, but really is't THAT many.



Originally posted by: sundevb
Because "Kevin Bacon" has the same number of syllables as "separation" and rhymes too. And he's in lots of movies.
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Bingo. It's actually a fun game to play if you're bored, and leaving it as only Kevin Bacon usually makes things a bit more challenging.
 
Three years ago a trio of Pennsylvania college boys with too much time on their hands and a bottle of Southern Comfort came up with the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli wrote a letter to then TV talk-show host Jon Stewart, who invited them on his show to demonstrate the game. From these humble beginnings, a Web site arose, a book was published and a nationwide cult-fad was born.
The game is based on the conceit of the John Guare play and movie adaptation Six Degrees of Separation. The play posits that we are all connected by six or fewer stages of circumstance or acquaintance. In other words, if I were to run into Elvis in the Grant Line Road Kroger store's produce department, we'd hardly be to the dairy case before establishing that he was in King Creole with (1) Dolores Hart, who was in Where the Boys Are with (2) Paula Prentiss, who was in Catch 22 with (3) Richard Benjamin, who was in a remarkably brief TV series, Quark, which featured (4) the Barnstable Twins, whose grandmother, (5) Ellen Haverly, gave a pressure cooker to (6) me as a wedding present. Voila! Only six degrees separate the King and me!

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