My Bacon number is three. 
Some say he can yodel in three different languages, and that his saliva has been used to cure whooping cough. All we know is…
He’s called Kevin Bacon.
The oceans get saltier when Kevin Bacon goes swimming.
He also won the Golden Harmonica on Craig Ferguson’s show for actually being able to play the harmonica.
This means I have a solid, two-tier Bacon number of 3:
- Through the Dope and EH here…
- Through Hal Ketchum, whom I met and had a conversation with in the Memphis airport (Hal/Maverick -> Reba McIntyre/Tremors -> Kevin Bacon)
I also have a Bacon Number of 5 through Trisha Yearwood:
Heather Sanders -> Pioneer Woman -> Trisha Yearwood -> Gregory Alpert -> Kevin Bacon
I had no idea Kevin Bacon was Jewish - but thanks to the wonders of sequential thread titles, now I know. Ignorance fought…
I also have a dual Bacon Number of 3. I met Walter Koenig at WorldCon in Anaheim a few years back. Koenig was in Deadly Weapon (1989) with John Lafayette, who was in Loverboy (2005) with Kevin Bacon. I am also a 3 through Penn Jillette (Toy Story) and R. Lee Ermey (Murder In The First) which also starred…Kevin Bacon. What a surprise.
I find I’m cravin’ bacon
and Kevin is his name.
whene’er I get the thick-cut
it drives me quite insane.
OHHHHHH…
Needs a second chorus.
Uncured is the cure
For my achin’ Bacon heart.
Sizzlin’, crispin’, breathin’ it in,
I’ve loved it from the start.
Ohhhhh…
Gotta have some Bacon
So get out that ol’ griddle
Bacon is the answer to every question,
The solution to every riddle.
Ohhhhh…
Ohhh, come on now, Kevin Bacon
We’re all a-waitin’ on you,
Can’t you take a moment now
To join the Doper crew?
Sorry to interrupt the singalong - but the Bacon Brothers are coming here on tour!
Kevin is a doozy.
He pumps up every movie.
Makes 'em better, yes he does
and always is a cutie!
Sorry to hear your dog Paulie died, Kevin. 
For the rest of you, here’s a story on it.
So, has Kevin Bacon showed up yet?
There should be an ode.
No! There should be a haiku
For Kevin Bacon.
OHHHHH (Good one TheOtherJeffreyLebowski.)
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
always cool and mellow.
Except for when he strikes a nerve
and throws us all a scary curve.
And Bacon is his name-o.
Kevin’s segment on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me (mentioned by Heart of Dorkness above) was indeed made of awesome - it was really funny. Sounds like a good guy.
And I’ll be damned. I have a Bacon number of 3! Wow! I don’t know anyone at all, but I have (very briefly) met Mario Andretti at some race back in the 90s - he signed my hat. He’s got a brief bit as a voice actor in the movie Cars, which also features a brief bit by John Goodman, who appeared in Death Sentence with…Kevin Bacon! Whoo hoo!
I too am one of the few, the proud, the 846,332 people with a Bacon number of 3. I was in Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy) with 2/3 of Monty Python plus the extended Python entourage, which gives me a dozen or so three-step paths to His Baconage.
Mellencamp starred in and directed Falling From Grace (1992), written by Larry McMurtry.
Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs up and put it on their list of Best Films of the Year, but it cost 3 million and grossed less than half a mill. My own take was that it was a good “slice of life” story but could have used some plot contrivance and resolution.
My memory is that the collaboration between Mellencamp and Larry McMurtry also was the catalyst for James McMurtry getting his start in the music profession.
(Wikipedia says: In 1987 McMutry’s career entered an upswing. A friend in San Antonio suggested McMurtry enter the New Folk songwriter contest; he became one of six winners that year. Also around this time John Mellencamp was starring in a film based on a script by McMurtry’s father, which gave McMurtry the opportunity to get a demo tape to Mellencamp. Mellencamp subsequently served as co-producer on McMurtry’s 1989 debut album, Too Long in the Wasteland. McMurtry also appeared on the soundtrack of the film Falling from Grace…)
Kevin Bacon did not appear in the TV mini-series, Lonesome Dove.