# Six degrees of Kevin Bacon anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030 "2007-08-18T05:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/41 "2007-08-20T18:12:13Z")
[QUOTE=erie774] 1. Me 2. My cousin is an art director who worked with 3. Tom Hanks who worked with 4. Kevin Bacon Actually, through my cousin I’m 4 away from most of Hollywood (but do they ever invite me to the cool parties? Noo.) We should do this in a more unusual way instead of actors. For example, “How many degrees are you from the Pope?” or “How many degrees from Bill Gates?” [/QUOTE] I’m reasonably sure I have a Pope number of 2. At least I met the cardinal of the DC Diocese, and I would assume he met the pope. I’m quite sure I have a Bill Gates number of 2. I have met one of Mircosoft’s VPs. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/42 "2007-08-20T18:23:01Z")
I don’t know what my Bacon number is. I’ve never met anybody from hollywood as far as I know. But everyone here has a **Christopher** number of 1. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/43 "2007-08-20T19:40:03Z")
I’ve been doing it wrong. Boo-hoo. ☹ I guess my Bacon numbers are 4’s after all. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/44 "2007-08-20T19:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] I’ve been doing it wrong. Boo-hoo. ☹ I guess my Bacon numbers are 4’s after all. [/QUOTE] No, you’re doing it right. You’re a three (using one of your examples): You to former husband (1). Former husband to Tom Cruise (2). Tom Cruise to Kevin Bacon (3). **Mr. Miskatonic** is a two: Him to Kevin Bacon’s father (1). Kevin Bacon’s father to Kevin Bacon (2). You have a Bacon number of one only if you have encountered him directly (or done a movie with him). ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/45 "2007-08-20T19:46:53Z")
Two. I know Zac Efron, who is doing the remake of Footloose and has been meeting with The Bacon since he got the script. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/46 "2007-08-20T19:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I haven’t been in any movies, so I can’t have a true Bacon number. But, as I’ve stated before, I have a quasi-Bacon number of 3. 1.) I’ve been onstage in two different productions (in college – **1776** and **A Man of la Mancha** ) with **Erland van Lidthe de Jeude** (The big bald guy in **The Warriors** and **Stir Crazy** , except he isn’t bald. He got tired of shaving his head to play big bald geeks, so he gave it up). 2.) Erland was in **The Wanderers** with **Karen Allen** 3.) Karen Allen was in **Animal House** with **Kevin Bacon** I didn’t even use the Oracle to do this. [/QUOTE] I am far more impressed that you knew Grossberger from Stir Crazy! I was sad to see that he passed away from heart failure in 1987 when I looked him up on imdb. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/47 "2007-08-20T19:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I’m reasonably sure I have a Pope number of 2. At least I met the cardinal of the DC Diocese, and I would assume he met the pope. [/QUOTE] I have a Pope Number of 3, but it’s an odd Pope. I used to work with a 50-something good ol’ boy male nurse who referred to his uncle the Pope a couple of times. I thought he was joking, but nope. His grandmother married an American GI after WWI and settled in Alabama, and her brother was Lil’ Giovanni Montini who became Pope Paul VI long after she relocated. His family was Baptist except for her, but she did go see her brother when he visited the United States and accompanied him on part of his tour, making her the only resident of Eclectic, Alabama ever to be in a papal entourage (I’m guessing). ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/48 "2007-08-20T20:03:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I have a Pope Number of 3, but it’s an odd Pope. I used to work with a 50-something good ol’ boy male nurse who referred to his uncle the Pope a couple of times. I thought he was joking, but nope. His grandmother married an American GI after WWI and settled in Alabama, and her brother was Lil’ Giovanni Montini who became Pope Paul VI long after she relocated. His family was Baptist except for her, but she did go see her brother when he visited the United States and accompanied him on part of his tour, making her the only resident of Eclectic, Alabama ever to be in a papal entourage (I’m guessing). [/QUOTE] So what was odd about him? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/49 "2007-08-20T20:11:06Z")
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt] So what was odd about him? [/QUOTE] ## Typo- should have read _old_ Pope. And I forgot to give the Bacon #. [Pope Paul VI](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/96/Paul_sextus.jpg) played [Happy Kine](http://www.nndb.com/people/501/000049354/devol-enl.jpg) on Fernwood Tonight with Fred Willard, who was in Americathon with Howard Hesseman who was in Mr. Roberts with Kevin Bacon. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/50 "2007-08-20T20:19:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I am far more impressed that you knew Grossberger from Stir Crazy! If you look close, you can see Erland wearing his MIT class ring (his “Brass Rat”) in that movie. That’s not erland’s voice in **Stir Crazy** – I was startled when I heard it – that’s not at all like his singing voice. Apparently there was some issue with him not being a member of the right organizations, so he couldn’t actually sing his part. They must’ve cleared it up by the time he made **The Running Man** , because that IS Erland’s voice singing in that moview (what little of it you can make out through the explosions). Unfortunately, he died before that film came out. I was sorry to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/51 "2007-08-20T20:42:26Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] Two. I know Zac Efron, who is doing the remake of Footloose and has been meeting with The Bacon since he got the script. [/QUOTE] You must be hounded by every young girl in town! My daughter (6 years old) was disappointed that the “real Troy” wasn’t at the stage performance we saw of HSM. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/52 "2007-08-20T21:04:17Z")
2, I guess. I once had lunch with Wilford Brimley, and he was in _The End of the Line_ with Kevin Bacon. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/53 "2007-08-20T21:08:51Z")
[QUOTE=erie774] You must be hounded by every young girl in town! My daughter (6 years old) was disappointed that the “real Troy” wasn’t at the stage performance we saw of HSM. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, my friend’s sister slinked up to me and said, “Aaaaaangel. . . do you think you could maybe use your connections to get me Zac Efron’s phone number? Just maaaaaaybe?” I was all, “Whoa, I have connections? Like the mob? Score!” We aren’t close or anything, I just know him and his friends from debate back in high school, though I have some friends that are really close with him. But with what you said, his best friend from high school has literally been offered $5000 cash for Zac’s number from some girl’s dad. Amazing that dorky little Zac could garner that kind of payout heh. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/54 "2007-08-20T21:34:44Z")
I guess my number is **2** 1. John Belushi smoked a joint in my presence. 2. John Belushi and the Bacon were in _Animal House_ ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/55 "2007-08-20T21:35:06Z")
[QUOTE=jali] \*snip…\*Laurence Fishburn appeared in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon. [/QUOTE] HOLY CRAP! You just made me realize I have a bacon number of 2!!! I’ve had dinner with Laurence Fishburn in New Zealand when [Gina Torres](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868659/) was working on [Cleopatra 2525](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206476/). Very cool guy. I was 19 or 20 at the time and totally star struck. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/56 "2007-08-20T21:46:24Z")
## [QUOTE=Sampiro] Typo- should have read _old_ Pope. And I forgot to give the Bacon #. [Pope Paul VI](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/96/Paul_sextus.jpg) played [Happy Kine](http://www.nndb.com/people/501/000049354/devol-enl.jpg) on Fernwood Tonight with Fred Willard, who was in Americathon with Howard Hesseman who was in Mr. Roberts with Kevin Bacon. [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah, I probably meant old Pope too, as I meat the cardinal in the mid-80s. But who knows, I’m sure the current pope was way up there in the hierarchy even back then. So I might be a 2 for both the old and the new Pope. Ya know, I can’t say much about the taste of New Pope, they really shoulda stuck with the old formula. Mmmm, Pope Classic! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/57 "2007-08-20T21:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Oh, yeah, I probably meant old Pope too, as I meat the cardinal in the mid-80s. [/QUOTE] How does one meat a cardinal? It sounds kind of messy. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/58 "2007-08-20T21:59:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] How does one meat a cardinal? It sounds kind of messy. [/QUOTE] It’s a de-boning process, developed back during the Inquisition. That’s where the term _spineless_ came from. And _gutless_? Well, let’s not go there. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/59 "2007-08-20T22:00:17Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] How does one meat a cardinal? It sounds kind of messy. [/QUOTE] I’ll ask a priest, he should know how. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030/60 "2007-08-20T22:16:55Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Typo- should have read old Pope. So, a typo made him odd? I’m still not following. [QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Oh, yeah, I probably meant old Pope too… [/QUOTE] Aren’t they all kind of old? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-anyone/416030.md?page=4)