For those of you who don't know about the
six degrees of separation, it's a theory that everyone is connected by
six people, i.e. your
friend has a friend who has a friend who has a friend who has a friend who has a friend who's your friend.
I'd heard about the
six degrees of separation theory, but before a little trip to
Washington, D.C. with my friends, I had no idea how much fun it could be. We all went together through a program with my
college, so we had to take a bus to get there. From
Baltimore, where my
college is, it's about an hour to
D. C., so we occupied ourselves by, you guessed it, playing the
six degrees of
Kevin Bacon, the guy the theory started with since he's supposedly in so many movies. Using the theory this way, you would connect
Kevin Bacon to say
Tom Hanks in
Apollo 13 to
Meg Ryan in
You've Got Mail to someone else to someone else until the sixth person you list was also in a movie with
Kevin Bacon.
Well, it
started with just
Kevin Bacon, but that got a little tough, so we expanded to all film actors, connected to each other and not to themselves, and it got pretty interesting...
Take a look at some of the
six degrees or less we came up with and see if you can connect them yourself (answers are at the end, so don't look until you're sure you want to). Keep in mind that the rules say you can only connect them through
movies, not
TV shows or
Broadway plays etc, and they must have a role in the film, not be a
producer etc. If you're not a film buff you might have some
trouble, but give it a try anyway. Enjoy!
Haley Joel Osment to
William H. Macy
Rosie O'Donnell to
Tupac Shakur
Andie MacDowell to
Molly Ringwald
Craig T. Nelson to
Adam Baldwin
more coming soon!
answers:
Haley Joel Osment to
Bruce Willis (
Sixth Sense) to
Nick Nolte (
Breakfast of Champions) to
John Cusack (
Thin Red Line) to
Philip Baker Hall (
Cradle Will Rock) to
William H. Macy (
Magnolia)
alternately,
from
Haley Joel Osment to
Kevin Spacey (
Pay it Forward) to
Annette Bening (
American Beauty) to
Martin Sheen (
The American President) to
Harrison Ford (
Apocalypse Now) to
William H. Macy (
Air Force One)
Tupac to
Janet Jackson (
Poetic Justice) to
Eddie Murphy (
Nutty Professor 2) to
Dan Aykroyd (
Trading Places) to
David Spade (
Tommy Boy) to
Rosie O'Donnell (
A Very Brady Sequel)
alternately,
from
Dan Aykroyd to
Greg Kinnear (
Loser) to
Tom Hanks (
You've Got Mail) to
Rosie O'Donnell (
A League of Their Own)
Molly Ringwald to
Andrew McCarthy (
Pretty in Pink) to
Helen Hunt (
Only You) to
Jack Nicholson (
As Good as it Gets) to
Michael Keaton (
Batman) to
Andie MacDowell (
Multiplicity)
Craig T. Nelson to
Alec Baldwin (
Ghosts of Mississippi) to
Jon Voight (
Pearl Harbor) to
Paul Walker (
Varsity Blues) to
Tobey Maguire (
Pleasantville) to
Rip Torn (
Wonder Boys) to
Adam Baldwin (
How to Make an American Quilt)