# A different six degrees game -- get thee to a celebrity **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532 "2007-02-09T18:31:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/101 "2007-02-14T08:32:33Z")
I’m actually Kevin Bacon incognito, so I win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/102 "2007-02-14T08:34:22Z")
You’ve met KAREN ALLEN?! _falls at your feet_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/103 "2007-02-14T08:34:49Z")
I’m in three scenes of [this movie](http://imdb.com/title/tt0112685/combined). The director, Eric Louzil, claimed that he discovered Kevin Costner. (Also, Ron Jeremy’s scenes were shot later in another state, but technically he and I are in the same movie. ) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/104 "2007-02-14T09:01:37Z")
My undergraduate director of studies shared a flat when he was an undergraduate with a guy who went out with Rachel Weiss. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/105 "2007-02-14T12:25:44Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Big deal. . [/QUOTE] Well it would be! If he’d actually taught me Latin! Which… errrr… he didn’t. _slinks of in a monolingual fashion_ ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/106 "2007-02-14T13:01:58Z")
I forgot … my cousin is in the Air Force and for awhile was assigned to Air Force Two. He met Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, among others. So that’s three degrees from me to a whole passel of politicians. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/107 "2007-02-15T00:24:32Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Looks like you got one but not the other. If you can’t get the owner, you’re obviously not Krafty enough. [/QUOTE] I may not be Krafty enough but I know what’s the best a man can get 😃 I do know the answer to both but prefer to be cryptic so it doesn’t give it away. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/108 "2007-02-15T19:16:48Z")
A friend of mine from college is Patricia Morrison’s good friend. A current friend is buddies with Mercedes Lackey. I met Terry Pratchett at a signing, which doesn’t really count, but I made him laugh twice, which should! Jennifer Aniston tried to get into my car during the filming of Office Space. I also saw Diedrich Bader, who seems like a real nice guy. He sat with the crew to eat lunch, which struck me as pretty cool. I was an extra in A Slipping-Down Life, which links me to Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce among many other famousish people. I did get to see them both. I swear I stood behind Quentin Tarentino in Texadelphia a few years back. My best friend from high school’s father got drunk with John Goodman in New Orleans. Another friend from high school joined the Marines and personally guarded President Clinton. I am not sure what he’s up to now but last I heard he’s alive… A friend of a friend is friends with Brent Spiner, who once came out to help change a flat tire for them. I don’t know if Richard Garriott counts as a celebrity, or any of the friends he put in a computer game. If it does, I’ve met him and chatted with him. He taught me how they make port and shared a bottle with me a few weekends ago. Believe me, the ten year old girl who had nightmares playing Ultima 5 was in giddy hysterics. For most of these, it’s kind of an “I live and went to college in Austin” thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/109 "2007-02-15T19:23:06Z")
Oh, and my mother worked within spitting distance of the filming of _Turner and Hooch_. So that’s Tom Hanks. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/110 "2007-02-15T21:18:34Z")
I’m pretty sure I can win for most-famous/important-celebrity, if not for closest connection. My grandmother played chamber music (ie, a string quartet) with **Albert Einstein**. (Less exciting… her husband, my now-deceased grandfather, was a fairly eminent logician involved in the space race, so I’m two degrees from all sorts of people like **Edward Teller** , **Werner Von Braun** , **Alan Turing** , **Paul Erdos** and **John “A Beautiful Mind” Nash**.) On the other side of my family, my uncle knows both Clintons pretty well, advised Bill before some of his SotU addresses, and got my parents a Camp David Presidential Retreat frisbee. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/111 "2007-02-15T21:22:06Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] I’m pretty sure I can win for most-famous/important-celebrity, if not for closest connection. My grandmother played chamber music (ie, a string quartet) with **Albert Einstein**. [/QUOTE] Stephen Hawking ran over my foot in his wheelchair, does that count? I had dinner the other day with Willard White. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/112 "2007-02-15T22:21:15Z")
[QUOTE=Little Plastic Ninja] A current friend is buddies with Mercedes Lackey. I don’t know if Richard Garriott counts as a celebrity, or any of the friends he put in a computer game. If it does, I’ve met him and chatted with him. [/QUOTE] You and I seem to move in the same circles. I, too, have a friend who knows Mercedes Lackey. Your friend’s name wouldn’t happen to be Ellen, would it? If you count Garriott, you and I are one degree from each other. He’s not a friend, but I’ve talked to him several times. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/113 "2007-02-16T00:30:32Z")
Long before I met her, my wife had a good friend who was good friends with Nicky Hopkins, who was a famous session keyboard player (played on many, many \*\*Stones \*\* albums). So I’m 3 steps removed from Rock 'n Roll deities. Every time I hear ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ and its piano part, I think “hey…I know a guy who knows a guy who knows that guy”. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/114 "2007-02-16T00:36:37Z")
I am an acquaintance with a Republican US Representative. As in, if he saw me on the street, he’d call me out by name and chat with me, and vice versa. He and the Prez are surely chums. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/115 "2007-02-16T15:19:09Z")
I’m a direct descendant of the same “Howard” family that gave us President William Howard Taft and all his descendants. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/116 "2007-02-17T02:39:07Z")
My dad and Kevin Bacon grew up in the same house. (The Bacons bought it from my grandparents.) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/117 "2007-02-17T13:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=NailBunny] Mr. Bunny Senior is good friends with R. Crumb. [/QUOTE] Did he know Charles Bukowski as well? R Crumb illustrated several Bukowski books, and he lived in Dixon California. I’m a huge Buk fan, and don’t know anyone that knew him. I worked in a radio station in the 1980’s, and saw/met and/or interviewed just about every punk, reggae and blues band that toured through northern california. I once played pinball in SF with Robin Williams while waiting for Bo Diddley to do his second set. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/118 "2007-02-17T14:59:21Z")
My great-great-uncle was Alfred Hitchcock. I’ve never met anyoen famous, though. Boo. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/119 "2007-02-17T15:15:20Z")
My husband’s mother and father used to occationally hang with Bobby Zimmerman - who later became Bob Dylan. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532/120 "2007-04-02T04:45:39Z")
I’m bumping a two-month old thread because I just found this out while farting around with Google, felt the need to share, and this is the most recent celebrity-encounter thread. I went to school with columnist Michelle Malkin from grades 2-8. We were in pretty much every class, were in the gifted program together, and even played in a D & D group in junior high. Even had a crush on her for awhile. I had no idea until a grade-school freind tracked me down, and that set me to fooling around looking up old names. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-six-degrees-game-get-thee-to-a-celebrity/391532.md?page=7)