There are only 2 with a bacon number of 8? Well I just found one of them,
Leia Zanganeh.
Its really not that hard to find a seven after you can get to 5s or so. And the 8 was easy to find.
I just stole Sublight’s 7, and looked at the movies he(or she?) was in, the looked for other people in those movies(cause once they are that far out of the mainstream they likely only have the one connection. Which is why you can usually work a 5 down to a seven by chaining the most obscure people in those movies.
We misspelled “Laurence Olivier” and fund that “Lawrence Oliver” has a Bacon number of “infinity”. Apparently this isn’t a big deal, however, as 12% of actors have a Bacon Number of infinity. (God, who else does?)
And who the hell is Lawrence Oliver?
Has anyone built an Eotvos number calculator? The Bacon number is really a rip-off of the Eotvos number, an I’m sure than have a non-infinite Eotvos number. I just have no idea what it is. (The connections for Eotvos number are co-authorships of scientific papers, rather than co-starring in movies.)
I’m impressed! I’ve tried obscure silent film stars like Charles Ogle (played Frankenstein in 1910!), Max Schreck (from Nosferatu), Snitz Edwards (from Phantom of the Opera), Noble Johnson and Steve Clemento (From King Kong and silent films), and Elmo Lincoln (the first Tarzan) and none has a Bacon number higher than 3! It won’t accept the actor Ian Fleming – apparently it only knows the James Bond author.
Paul Erdos has a Bacon number. Erdos and Gene Patterson both appeared in the documentary N is a Number. Patterson and John Turturro both appeared in Box of Moonlight. Turturro and Tom Cruise both appeared in The Color of Money. Cruise and Kevin Bacon both appeared in A Few Good Men.
This comes from My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos.
The Bacon number was probably independently invented rather than stolen from the idea of the Erdos number.
I rode the shuttle to work with this woman(1). She was married to a guy who worked security for movie locations (2). This guy was the actual bodyguard for Whitney Houston while she was filming The Bodyguard(3). Victoria bass was in the Bodyguard with Whitney Houston(4). Victoria Bass was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon(5).
Dogsbody -> best friend
best friend was in SugarTown with Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy was in She’s Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon.
And I was also able to get a Bacon number of infinity with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran - he was in a British release called Hunting Venus a year or so back.
you infidels! of course you can stump the computer, if you don’t follow the divinely inspired rules of the game! NO tv shows, NO “well I once had a muffin that Jack Lemon picked out but then decided not to get”, NO Schwarzenegger or Elvis. damn you all! this is a sacred activity.
the actors must be members of the screen actors’ guild. if your opera guy happened to be in a few movies, great. but don’t profane the game by saying that you stumped a computer. THE BACON SHALL LIVE FOREVER.
seriously though, I made it to the final rounds of Stupid Human tricks a bunch of years back w/ the kevin bacon game. Didn’t make it to the end (although I beat a guy who could put his hat on his feet and kick it onto his head). I’m not bitter though, because I got a letterman sponge, and got to see a cat that played pinball.
(1) My father worked with Kit Langlois, who
(2) Is the father of Paul Langlois, who is with the Tragically Hip, who
(3) Are good friends of Dan Aykroyd and were the musical guests on SNL on a night he hosted.
(4) Dan Aykroyd is one step removed from Kevin Bacon a number of different ways, unless he was actually in a movie with him I’ve forgotten.
I was walking down Chestnut Street in Philadelphia with a friend, and a couple passed us walking in the other direction. My friend says, “Do you know who that was?” “No,” I say. “Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick,” she says. I say, “Do you know what this means?” “No, what?” says she. “One degree!” I exclaim.
