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A map of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The larger circles, such as Kyra Sedgewick, represent a Bacon number of 1. The Bacon number of an actor is the number of degrees of separation they have from Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game. This is an application of the Erdős number concept to the Hollywood movie industry. The higher the Bacon ...
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – Parlor game on degrees of separation; SixDegrees.org – Charity led by actor, musician, and philanthropist Kevin Bacon; Small-world experiment – Experiments examining the average path length for social networks; Social network – Social structure made up of a set of social actors
Bacon was influenced to start SixDegrees.org because of a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. This game was made up to link Kevin Bacon to another arbitrarily-chosen actor. In this game an actor is selected at random and in six connections or less this actor is linked to Kevin Bacon. Bacon realized he could do the same thing with charitable ...
Kevin Bacon joined in a game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" on Twitter with a simple question: "Would it be zero degrees for me or one degree?" Here's what he had to say.
It may not be hard to trace, say, Rhea Perlman back to Kevin Bacon, but what about you? If the age-old theory holds water, we should all be no more than six degrees away from cuttin' Footloose ...
With more than three decades in the business, Ruth E. Carter has supplanted Kevin Bacon in the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, though she is closer at two degrees. Take Meryl Streep.
Bacon is the subject of the trivia game titled "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", based on the idea that, due to his prolific screen career covering a diverse range of genres, any Hollywood actor can be linked to another in a handful of steps based on their association with Bacon. The name of the game derives from the idea of six degrees of separation.
It's those issues that led the "Footloose" actor to found the non-profit, SixDegrees.Org, in 2007 and, most recently the podcast, "Six Degrees with Kevin Bacon," which riffs off the popular game ...