Hey, I want to hear more about this!
ditto O.O
Its probably much less exciting than you envision. I managed a bookstore in the Atlanta airport for about a year and a half (1996-1997.)
I was taking a break in the smoking lounge, she walked in and asked me for a light. I lit her cig. I asked her what she was doing in Atlanta, she just said she had a connecting flight, that she was exhausted, just wanted to get home, yadda yadda yadda. She looked jet-lagged, and truth be told, kinda strung out. But, she very well may just have been tired. She finished her smoke, said thanks and went on her way.
I met a good number of quasi-famous to famous people at that job.
Jonnie Cochran
John Denver
Webster
Terry Bradshaw
Macho Man Randy Savage
Michael Stipe
and several others I am probably forgetting.
Wow
That’s great. Did you ask for autographs? [figuring John Denver’s must be worth a lot by now] 
No, I’ve always thought that asking for autographs was a little bit hokey. (No offense intended to any autograph collectors, just MHO)
I’d rather just say hello and see what they have to say – then remember the experience of meeting them, rather than have a piece of paper with a name on it.
3 degrees:
I worked with George Gaffney at my college’s student TV station.
George Gaffney was in Last Lives with J.C. Quinn
J.C. Quinn was in Digging to China with Kevin Bacon
I have a couple other 4-degree routes.
Thanks Munch, Brandocet, and Mystery Dog for your corrections. I guess I was thinking of DeNiro in place of Pacino. Could have sworn I used Pacino legitimately before. Bet I used Pacino in Heat with DeNiro in Sleepers with Bacon, which would explain my 5 degrees.
So cool, I’ve dropped a step and become one degree closer. Now my friends’ friends are six degrees removed.
Just ftr, you have to list people who acted in movies/shows with people who have been in movies/shows who have been in movies/shows with Kevin Bacon. Being “friends” with someone doesnt’ count. Most purists don’t count JFK, as it’s too easy. Everyone was in that one.
I, myself, am one degree from Mr. Bacon.
OK, I’ll bite. What movie were you in with Kevin Bacon?
A month ago, I had breakfast with a co-worker at my hospital who’e name is Kevin. We both had 3 strips of Bacon with our eggs.
How many freakin’ degrees do I win, and why is this so important that I have to post here, 'cause I don’t even understand the rules of this?!:rolleyes:
('cause I wanna build my post count up to 1100 again, that’s why!) 
Actually, I do understand the rules of the game. I just couldn’t resist the post , because I’m just so clever sometimes it scares me! 
Quasi
[[OK, I’ll bite. What movie were you in with Kevin Bacon?]]
I’m stalling because I can’t remember the name of the actor who was in a movie with Kevin Bacon and also was in “A Shining Season,” in which I was an extra. I’m really bad at this Popular Culture stuff. I’ll get back to you.
Sorry, Jill, that’s a Bacon index of 2. You’re one degree from Kevin Bacon only if you were actually in a movie with the esteemed actor.
You might want to check out the Oracle of Bacon.
The same can be said of Diner.
i have friends who had kevin bacon’s father as a professor. so that would be me, friend (s), dad, kevin.
I disagree, and the commercial supports my belief. (None of those people are movie actors!)
Besides, if it’s a matter of “acted with” than that means I’m NOT 3 degrees from the Jack in the Box guy. (I know Brian Boitano’s cousin.) And I will not STAND for that!
My bacon number recently advanced to 4, even following JillGat’s rules.
I was in Beauty 7 with Uno Kanda.
Uno Kanda was in Gohatto with Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano was in Brother with Tuesday Knight
Tuesday Knight was in Telling Lies in America with Kevin Bacon
This Kevin Bacon think is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. I could not care less who knows who was in what movie, etc, etc , ad nauseum.
But…
I shook hands with Pat Benatar
Who recently did a special with the Dixie Chicks
Who were on that Sept 11 show with Reba McIntyre
Who was in “Tremors” with … Kevin Bacon
Sheesh…
I have an Erdos-Bacon number of 8 (and possibly less than that).
What’s an Erdos number, you ask, and what’s a Erdos-Bacon number? Paul Erdos (1913-1996) was one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time. Not only did he write a huge number of mathematical papers, but he wrote many of these papers in collaboration with others. He had at least 450 co-authors. So define an Erdos number similarly to how you define the degree of separation from Kevin Bacon. If you co-wrote a paper with Erdos, your Erdos number is 1. If you didn’t, but you co-wrote a paper with someone who wrote a paper with Erdos, your Erdos number is 2. And so forth. The notion of the Erdos number was created before the idea of the degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, incidentally. For further information, there are two biographies of Paul Erdos (My Brain is Open by Bruce Schechter and The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman). You can find out more about him by googling on his name.
So then an Erdos-Bacon number allows you to connect yourself to Kevin Bacon by either co-authoring of a paper or by acting in the same movie. Now, as it happens, I have an Erdos number of 4. Paul Erdos has a Bacon number of 4. There was a documentary made about Erdos called N is a Number. One of the mathematicians interviewed in that documentary is Gene Patterson, who’s done some small jobs in movies. One of them was acting in the movie Box of Moon Light, in which the actor Sam Rockwell also appeared. Sam Rockwell also appeared in the movie 13 Moons, as did Pruitt Taylor Vince. Pruitt Taylor Vince appeared in 24 Hours with Kevin Bacon. So my Erdos-Bacon number is at most 8.
But my number might be smaller than that. Hollow Man, which starred Kevin Bacon, was directed by Paul Verhoeven. Before going into the film business, Verhoeven got a Ph.D. in mathematical physics. If Verhoeven ever co-wrote any papers while he was in academia, there’s a good chance he can be connected with Erdos and hence with me.
Technically speaking, they all are 1 degree. They all acted in a commercial with Kevin Bacon
Why haven’t I ever thought about this?
I was in two scenes in “Joe Versus the Volcano” starring both Tom Hanks and Nathan Lane. Tom was in “Apollo 13” with Kevin; Nathan was in “He Said, She Said” with Kevin - that gives me a Dual Bacon Index of 2. Heh. I feel kind of cool now.