Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a living room game based on the concept of "six degrees of separation", which presupposes that two people on Earth are six or fewer contacts. Film fans challenge each other to find the shortest path between the arbitrary actor and the productive actor Kevin Bacon. This is based on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through the role of their movie to Bacon in six steps. In 2007, Bacon started a charity organization called SixDegrees.org.
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In a January 1994 interview with Premiere Kevin Bacon magazine mentioned when discussing The River Wild film that "he has worked with everyone in Hollywood or someone who works with them." After this, a long newsgroup thread to "Kevin Bacon is Center of the Universe" appears. Four students of Albright College claimed to have discovered a game known as "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" after watching two films featuring Bacon from back to back, Footloose and The Air Up There . During the second second they begin to speculate on how many Bacon movies and the number of people who work with them. In the interview, Brian Turtle explains how "it became one of our stupid party tricks, I think people will throw names at us and we'll connect them with Kevin Bacon."
They wrote a letter to talk show host Jon Stewart, telling him that "Kevin Bacon is the center of the entertainment world" and explains the game. They appeared on The Jon Stewart Show and The Howard Stern Show with Bacon to explain the game. Bacon admits that he initially disliked the game because he believed it taunted him, but he finally came to enjoy it. The three inventors released a book, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (ISBN: 9780452278448), with an introduction written by Bacon. Board-based board games released by Endless Games.
Bacon also appears in advertisements for Visa check cards parodying the game. In an advertisement, Bacon wants to write a check to buy a book, but the officer asks for his ID, which he does not have. He left and came back with a group of people, then said to the clerk, "Okay, I'm in a movie with extras, Eunice, whose hairstylist, Wayne, attends Sunday school with Pastor O'Neill, who played badminton with Dr. Sanjay, who recently uprooted the appendix Kim, who dumped you in the second year, so here we are practically brothers. "In the same vein, Dave Barry, in a column describing the unexpected complications that arise as he tries to find the right words from the slogan Lone Ranger, connecting Lone Ranger to Kevin Bacon in the following ways: Lone Ranger is a great Uncle Green Hornet; Green Hornet and O. J. Simpson both hang out with people named Kato; Simpson and Robert Wagner starred in The Towering Inferno ; Wagner and Bacon starred in Wild Things .
The concept was also presented in an episode of the Mad About You show on November 19, 1996, in which a character expressed the opinion that every actor is only three degrees apart from Kevin Bacon. Bacon deceived his self-concept in the cameo he did for the independent film We Married Margo. Playing alone in the 2003 episode of Will and Grace , Bacon connects himself with Val Kilmer via Tom Cruise and the joke "Hey, that's short!". The title The Onion , the satirical newspaper, on October 30, 2002, was "Kevin Bacon Linked To Al Qaeda". Bacon provides voiceover comments for NY Skyride attractions at the Empire State Building in New York City. At some points throughout the comment, Bacon alludes to his relationship with Hollywood stars through other actors working with him.
In 2009, Bacon narrated the National Geographic Channel event "The Human Family Tree" - a program that describes the organization's Genographic Project effort to establish the genetic links of all humans. In 2011, James Franco made reference to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon while hosting the 83rd Academy Awards. In the summer of 2012, Google began offering the ability to find the actor Bacon number on the main page, by searching for the name of the actor beginning with the phrase "bacon number". EE started its British television ad campaign on November 3, 2012, based on the Six Degrees concept, in which Kevin Bacon illustrates his connections and draws attention to how the EE 4G network allows for similar connectivity.
The most connected Internet node has been referred to as "'Bacon Kevin' from the Web," because they allow most users to navigate to most sites in 19 clicks or less. In the song "Weird Al" Yankovic "Lame Claim to Fame," one of the sentences is, "I know a man who knew a man who knew a man who knew a man who knew a man who knew Kevin Bacon," leading to Bacon Number 6.
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Bacon Number
The Bacon number of an actor is the number of degrees of separation him from Bacon, as defined by the game. This is the application of Erd's concept number for the Hollywood film industry. The higher the amount of Bacon, the greater the separation from the actor Kevin Bacon.
The Bacon number calculation for actor X is the "shortest path" algorithm, applied to the co-stardom network:
- Kevin Bacon himself has Bacon number 0.
- Actors who have worked directly with Kevin Bacon have Bacon number 1.
- If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom X has appeared in any movie is N, Bacon X number is N 1.
Example
Elvis Presley:
- Elvis Presley was at Custom Changes (1969) with Edward Asner
- Edward Asner was in JFK (1991) with Kevin Bacon
Therefore, Asner has a number of Bacon 1, and Presley (which never appears in a movie with Bacon) has a number of Bacon 2.
Ian McKellen: Ian McKellen is at X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) with Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy
Therefore, McAvoy and Fassbender have Bacon number 1, and McKellen has Bacon number 2.
Because some people have limited Bacon and Erd's limited number due to acting and publication, there are some rare people who have a limited number of Bacon Pieces, which are defined as the sum of individual Erd and Bacon numbers.
Center of the Hollywood Universe
While at the University of Virginia, Brett Tjaden created Oracle Bacon, a computer program that uses information on about 800,000 people from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). The algorithm calculates the "how well of a center" an individual IMDb personality, ie the weighted average of the degree of separation of all persons associated with that person. This site returns an average personality number, e.g. for Clint Eastwood, he returns the average "Clint Eastwood Number." From there the Oracle site supposes "The Center of the Hollywood Universe" as the person with the lowest average personality number. Kevin Bacon, it turns out, is not the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" (ie the most connected actor). In fact, Bacon is not even on the top 100 list of average personality figures. Although he is not the most easily recognizable actor, it still signifies a better center than more than 99% of people who have appeared in a movie. Since the average personality number of each actor can change with every new movie created, the center can and does not shift. The "Center" has included Rod Steiger, Donald Sutherland, Eric Roberts, Dennis Hopper, and Harvey Keitel.
Photography book
Inspired by the game, British photographer Andy Gotts is trying to reach Kevin Bacon through a photographic link, not a movie link.
Gotts wrote to 300 actors who asked to take their photos, and only received permission from Joss Ackland. Ackland then suggested that Gotts photograph Greta Scacchi, with whom she appeared in the movie White Mischief . Gotts continues from there, asking every actor to refer him to one or more friends or colleagues. Finally, Christian Slater referred him to Bacon. Gotts's photo of Bacon completed the project, eight years after it started. Gotts published the photos in a book, Degrees (ISBN 0-9546843-6-2), with texts by Alan Bates, Pierce Brosnan, and Bacon.
See also
- Morphy Number, connection via chess game to Paul Morphy;
- My Shusaku number, which is equivalent in Go world with Honinbo Shusaku;
- Erd Number, a collaboration on a mathematical paper with Paul Erd's;
- Erd? s-Bacon number, the sum of one's Erd number and Bacon number.
References
External links
- Oracle Bacon counts the Bacon number of any actor or actress from the IMDb data
- Six Degrees James A. Conrad Demonstration way for those who want to compile their own "degree" list by three-degree Hollywood writer Bacon.
- Cinema FreeNet Movie Connector finds interstellar links, but it can also use directors and producers.
- Six Degrees Lois Weisberg shows that Bacon connects many actors because he plays a role in various types of roles and movies.
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