So I'm working out at the gym the other night and CNN is on the tv (as always) when Piers Morgan Tonight comes begins and his guest is Kevin Bacon, surely you all know who that is. I mean he's been around for like forever and has been in some quite iconic movies like Footloose (which I hope everyone knows, and if you don't shame on you, rent it, absorb it, live it, especially before the remake comes out). But he's also been in Friday The 13th
(the original in 1980!) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978!) Diner
, JFK, A Few Good Men , Wild Things (a trashy campy fest I highly recommend not only for the plot twist ending but the brief shot of Bacon's um bacon, if you know what I mean). Ugh the list is endless and it's because of this that someone long ago came up with this game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. A concept game not thought up by Mr. Bacon and not originally liked or endorsed by him either at the time of it's inception. This fact and the game itself was talked about between Morgan and Bacon on the show. Mr. Bacon as since fully embraced the game and now uses it as a charitable organization to promote innovation, organization, motivation any kind of --ation you can think of.
Truly a noble endeavor, plus it does prove it kind of is a small world when you think about it. But does this small world really involve us everyday non-actor folks like you an me. I mean the more I thought about it the more I wonder if maybe there was any way I could be six degrees from Mr. Bacon. (And yes I like saying Mr. Bacon, it makes me think of some kooky mascot at an all meat restaurant in the South where people say ma'am a lot and they only serve sweet tea..but I digress) So I sat down (more like collapsed) after I got home from the gym and started to wrack my brain about who I've known in the past that I had a connection with that could lead me down the road towards a baconiphany as were. Who did I know, who had met, who had I done....think, think, think. Then a light, wait, there was this guy in the mid 80's, let's just call him Charles (not his real name of course and yes I do remember his name, first and last, by the way, I wasn't a total whore in the 80's, only a partial whore) and we had a fling, or two, and I even went to visit him in Chicago over a long Easter weekend. Turns out he was a ballet dancer for a company up there which he parlayed into being a back-up dancer on Madonna's Blonde Ambition Tour and even play a major role in her concert movie of the tour Truth or Dare
, he really stands out when she does the song Oh Father , a priest or something. Well, Madonna of course, was in a terrible movie called Who's That Girl?
with Griffin Dunne who was married to Ellen Barkin who was in Diner with...Kevin Bacon. Wow, there it is, I am only 4 degrees away from Kevin Bacon, me, a regular non-celebrity person. Maybe it is a small world after all (and yes that song will not be stuck in your head...forever!). And it turns out that Dunne directed a movie called Practical Magic that starred Evan Rachel Wood who was in a movie, Digging To China
, with...Kevin Bacon. And I'm sure if you I did more research (which I won't because I'm too lazy for that) I could probably come up with some more or less degrees.
So what does it all mean you ask? What is the great existential purpose this insight into the smallness of the ever decreasing space between us all as humans means to the greater good within the transference of hope and well-being in our personal lives and to the better of mankind in all its infinite possibilities throughout the generations of hope and change in the now and forever to come? Eh...don't really mean squat...this is the internet people, not a bastion for the meaning of life, but a vast wasteland of cats doing silly cute stupid things and celebrities and politicians baring it all then saying it isn't, it wasn't, it ain't never gonna be them. I just thought it was interesting and plus I was on an endorphin high after my workout and if you don't like well then f*** you, start your own blog.
cheers!
Answer to previous post trivia question: San Gregorio in Northern California (of course) just north of Half Moon Bay
This posts trivia question: What soap opera did Kevin Bacon do a stint on.
(the original in 1980!) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978!) Diner, JFK, A Few Good Men , Wild Things (a trashy campy fest I highly recommend not only for the plot twist ending but the brief shot of Bacon's um bacon, if you know what I mean). Ugh the list is endless and it's because of this that someone long ago came up with this game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. A concept game not thought up by Mr. Bacon and not originally liked or endorsed by him either at the time of it's inception. This fact and the game itself was talked about between Morgan and Bacon on the show. Mr. Bacon as since fully embraced the game and now uses it as a charitable organization to promote innovation, organization, motivation any kind of --ation you can think of. Truly a noble endeavor, plus it does prove it kind of is a small world when you think about it. But does this small world really involve us everyday non-actor folks like you an me. I mean the more I thought about it the more I wonder if maybe there was any way I could be six degrees from Mr. Bacon. (And yes I like saying Mr. Bacon, it makes me think of some kooky mascot at an all meat restaurant in the South where people say ma'am a lot and they only serve sweet tea..but I digress) So I sat down (more like collapsed) after I got home from the gym and started to wrack my brain about who I've known in the past that I had a connection with that could lead me down the road towards a baconiphany as were. Who did I know, who had met, who had I done....think, think, think. Then a light, wait, there was this guy in the mid 80's, let's just call him Charles (not his real name of course and yes I do remember his name, first and last, by the way, I wasn't a total whore in the 80's, only a partial whore) and we had a fling, or two, and I even went to visit him in Chicago over a long Easter weekend. Turns out he was a ballet dancer for a company up there which he parlayed into being a back-up dancer on Madonna's Blonde Ambition Tour and even play a major role in her concert movie of the tour Truth or Dare
, he really stands out when she does the song Oh Father , a priest or something. Well, Madonna of course, was in a terrible movie called Who's That Girl? with Griffin Dunne who was married to Ellen Barkin who was in Diner with...Kevin Bacon. Wow, there it is, I am only 4 degrees away from Kevin Bacon, me, a regular non-celebrity person. Maybe it is a small world after all (and yes that song will not be stuck in your head...forever!). And it turns out that Dunne directed a movie called Practical Magic that starred Evan Rachel Wood who was in a movie, Digging To China, with...Kevin Bacon. And I'm sure if you I did more research (which I won't because I'm too lazy for that) I could probably come up with some more or less degrees. So what does it all mean you ask? What is the great existential purpose this insight into the smallness of the ever decreasing space between us all as humans means to the greater good within the transference of hope and well-being in our personal lives and to the better of mankind in all its infinite possibilities throughout the generations of hope and change in the now and forever to come? Eh...don't really mean squat...this is the internet people, not a bastion for the meaning of life, but a vast wasteland of cats doing silly cute stupid things and celebrities and politicians baring it all then saying it isn't, it wasn't, it ain't never gonna be them. I just thought it was interesting and plus I was on an endorphin high after my workout and if you don't like well then f*** you, start your own blog.
cheers!
I'M 53 DAMMIT AND I LOOK GOOD!
Answer to previous post trivia question: San Gregorio in Northern California (of course) just north of Half Moon Bay
This posts trivia question: What soap opera did Kevin Bacon do a stint on.
This is hilarious - and awesome that you're 4 degrees, love it:)
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