P.S. Stan Lee is way ahead of Kevin Bacon now! The MCU is distorting the whole movie-verse!
Not precisely the MCU-- Lee had cameos in most of the Marvel-affiliated movies even before it was the MCU, and of course he wasn’t in the later MCU movies.
But yeah, those cameos give him a lot of connections. On the other hand, there’s a lot of redundancy in them, too: Like, he has a lot of different connections to Scarlett Johansson, or to Robert Downey Jr., and they have a lot of connections to the same people.
In 2004, the New Yorker reported that the most “connected” actor at the time was Burgess Meredith. (As in, he’d been dead for seven years but still had the most connections as of that date.)
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Totally counts according to this: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/50851/how-does-the-bacon-number-work-exactly
In fact, you don’t even need to be in a named group. A simple crowd extra counts.
So my Bacon number is 2 since I was a crowd extra in Batman: The Dark Knight during the funeral parade scene. (I believe my then-girlfriend/now-life-partner and I can be seen at the lower left of the crowd on the sidewalk at minute marker 2:46 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFjeMITIuY&ab_channel=MarvelousMovieClips4KHDR .)
And Gary Oldman with a Bacon number of 1 was even in that scene. (Actually, pretty much every major role except Bruce Wayne/Batman was in that scene. And we saw Aaron Eckhart pick his nose.)
Me too! I’ve got a Bacon number of 2, after appearing in a scene with Kevin Costner. Not as a member of the crowd; I was the guy who walked into the store behind him.
I think this is the part most people forget.
Being inspired by an offhand comment in an interview isn’t the same as doing research.
You missed my point. Your post implied that Fass, Ginelli, and Turtle just happened to pick Bacon as the subject of their game. I was pointing out the reason they picked him.
Your post implied that Bacon wanted people to use him as the best example of an actor connected to every other actor. He didn’t. He never thought that someone would decide to create a game based on his offhand comment.
My Bacon number is 1, after appearing in a crowd scene in Patriots Day.
I agree that Bacon did not seek to start this game and I don’t feel I implied that.
Now we just need Kevin Bacon to chime in on this thread about his Bacon number of 0.
By the way, this site will calculate Erdős numbers, though it seems a bit finicky - it gives my thesis advisor an Erdős number of 5, which ought give me one of 6, but it can’t find the papers I wrote with my advisor, so I’m persona non grata Erdős-wise.
What were the journals these papers were in? Were they too minor to be noticed? The one paper that I had published in a refereed journal no longer exists and was strictly for undergraduates anyway.
It’s been some decades ago, so I’ll have to check to refresh my memory, but as you say, the publications may have been too minor to count.
Yeah, quite finicky. I have a clean Erdős number of 3, but that site doesn’t trace it.
(My rather limited acting career, however, wreaks havoc on my Erdős-Bacon number.)
I have never appeared in a movie so my Bacon number is infinite.
I have never published a paper so my Erdos number is also infinite.
I add these two together and my Cantor number is two.
I have a Bacon number of 3 thanks to my appearance on The Johnny Downs Show in the early 60s.
The Johnny Downs Show is a television show, so it doesn’t count for Bacon numbers.