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As a fun diversion, note that as soon as an individual acts with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from their own then they will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation. For instance, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent-era]] icon Creator/BusterKeaton appeared, late in life, in a 1960 film of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' with child actress Patty [=McCormack=] -- who, 48 years later, appeared in ''Film/FrostNixon'' with... Kevin Bacon, giving Keaton a Bacon Number of just 2. In 1989 Bacon starred in ''Film/TheBigPicture'', in which he appeared with Creator/JuneLockhart (b.1925), who made her film debut in ''Film/AChristmasCarol1938'', which featured Lionel Braham (b.1879) as the Ghost of Christmas Present.[[note]](Plus an uncredited Halliwell Hobbes, b.1877.)[[/note]] Lockhart's most recent credited film role was in 2016; Braham's first was in 1915. In 2023's ''Leave The World Behind'', meanwhile, Bacon played the father of 10-year-old Alexis Rae Forlenza -- who, born in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, therefore has just 3 degrees of separation from actors born in the 1870s...!
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As a fun diversion, note that as soon as an individual acts with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from their own then they will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation. For instance, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood [[MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent-era]] icon Creator/BusterKeaton appeared, late in life, in a 1960 film of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' with child actress Patty [=McCormack=] -- who, 48 years later, appeared in ''Film/FrostNixon'' with... Kevin Bacon, giving Keaton a Bacon Number of just 2. In 1989 Bacon starred in ''Film/TheBigPicture'', in which he appeared with Creator/JuneLockhart (b.1925), who made her film debut in ''Film/AChristmasCarol1938'', which featured Lionel Braham (b.1879) as the Ghost of Christmas Present.[[note]](Plus an uncredited Halliwell Hobbes, b.1877.)[[/note]] Lockhart's most recent credited film role was in 2016; Braham's first was in 1915. In 2023's ''Leave The World Behind'', meanwhile, Bacon played the father of 10-year-old Alexis Rae Forlenza -- who, born in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, therefore has just 3 degrees of separation from actors born in the 1870s...!
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-->-- Music/WeirdAlYankovic, "[[Music/MandatoryFun Lame Claim to Fame]]"[[note]]"Weird Al" Yankovic himself has a Bacon number of 2, he was in ''Film/SpyHard'' with Creator/AndyGriffith who was in the made-for-tv film ''The Demon Murder Case'' with Kevin Bacon.
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-->-- Music/WeirdAlYankovic, "[[Music/MandatoryFun Lame Claim to Fame]]"[[note]]"Weird Al" Yankovic himself has a Bacon number of 2, he was in ''Film/SpyHard'' with Creator/AndyGriffith who was in the made-for-tv film ''The Demon Murder Case'' with Kevin Bacon.
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Fame]]"[[note]]"Weird Al" Yankovic himself has a Bacon number of 2, he was in ''Film/SpyHard'' with Creator/AndyGriffith who was in the made-for-tv film ''The Demon Murder Case'' with Kevin Bacon.
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Most instances of the Ryu Number also add in characters from other things like anime/manga and history.
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, even fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]] For TV show characters, there's the [[Series/StElsewhere Tommy Westphall]] number.
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, even fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, characters (sometimes overlapping with just fictional characters in general), there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]] For TV show characters, there's the [[Series/StElsewhere Tommy Westphall]] number.
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This is a pop-culture [[JustForFun game]], whose title is a {{mondegreen}} of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to the actor Creator/KevinBacon within six steps.
Or, in other words, pick a random actor. Any actor. Now think of someone they've ever appeared in a movie with. Now think of a chain of such individuals, each of whom has acted alongside a ''different'' person, until you reach anyone who's acted in something with Kevin Bacon -- and thereby reach the man himself, in as few steps as possible. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with... Kevin Bacon. ''Voilà.''
Or, in other words, pick a random actor. Any actor. Now think of someone they've ever appeared in a movie with. Now think of a chain of such individuals, each of whom has acted alongside a ''different'' person, until you reach anyone who's acted in something with Kevin Bacon -- and thereby reach the man himself, in as few steps as possible. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with... Kevin Bacon. ''Voilà.''
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This is a pop-culture [[JustForFun game]], game, whose title is a {{mondegreen}} of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to the actor Creator/KevinBacon within six steps.
Or, in In other words, pick a random actor. Any '''Any''' actor. Now think of someone they've ever appeared been in a movie with. Now think of a chain of such individuals, each of whom has acted alongside been in a film with a ''different'' person, until you reach anyone somebody who's acted been in something one with Kevin Bacon -- and thereby reach link to the man himself, in as few steps as possible. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with... Kevin Bacon. ''Voilà.''
And it's not just actors, per se. As implied in the first paragraph above, you can play it with literally ''anybody'' who's ever appeared in a film. Try, oh, Creator/AndyWarhol. He made an uncredited cameo in ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'', starring Creator/DustinHoffman, who was in ''Film/{{Sleepers}}'' with Kevin Bacon -- giving Warhol a Bacon Number of 2. Creator/DavidLetterman? Same. He was in ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', as was Creator/DavidKoechner who acted alongside Bacon in ''My One And Only''. Or how about a man who was ''literally'' on the moon? UsefulNotes/BuzzAldrin appeared in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', as did Creator/JohnMalkovich, who was in ''Film/QueensLogic'' with KB. That's a Bacon Number of 2 for Aldrin too. And so on.
For applications in fiction, see OneDegreeOfSeparation.
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!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, featuring in a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Mr Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" shifts over time -- but typically it will be someone who has appeared in many, many films over a considerable period. During the latter part of his long life and prolific career, for instance, Creator/ChristopherLee was credited on [=IMDb=] as being this. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson, who with a mean score of 2.89828 degrees of separation is fractionally more closely linked to everyone else on average than Creator/EricRoberts is, by a mere 0.0041 degrees. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe but a fair way behind the likes of, say, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/VinnieJones, Creator/GaryBusey or Creator/DianeKeaton.
As a fun diversion, note that as soon as an individual acts with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from their own then they will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation. For instance, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent-era]] icon Creator/BusterKeaton appeared, late in life, in a 1960 film of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' with child actress Patty [=McCormack=] -- who, 48 years later, appeared in ''Film/FrostNixon'' with... Kevin Bacon, giving Keaton a Bacon Number of just 2. In 1989 Bacon starred in ''Film/TheBigPicture'', in which he appeared with Creator/JuneLockhart (b.1925), who made her film debut in ''Film/AChristmasCarol1938'', which featured Lionel Braham (b.1879) as the Ghost of Christmas Present.[[note]](Plus an uncredited Halliwell Hobbes, b.1877.)[[/note]] Lockhart's most recent credited film role was in 2016; Braham's first was in 1915. In 2023's ''Leave The World Behind'', meanwhile, Bacon played the father of 10-year-old Alexis Rae Forlenza -- who, born in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, therefore has just 3 degrees of separation from actors born in the 1870s...!
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!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, featuring in a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Mr Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" shifts over time -- but typically it will be someone who has appeared in many, many films over a considerable period. During the latter part of his long life and prolific career, for instance, Creator/ChristopherLee was credited on [=IMDb=] as being this. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson, who with a mean score of 2.89828 degrees of separation is fractionally more closely linked to everyone else on average than Creator/EricRoberts is, by a mere 0.0041 degrees. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe but a fair way behind the likes of, say, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/VinnieJones, Creator/GaryBusey or Creator/DianeKeaton.
As a fun diversion, note that as soon as an individual acts with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from their own then they will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation. For instance, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent-era]] icon Creator/BusterKeaton appeared, late in life, in a 1960 film of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' with child actress Patty [=McCormack=] -- who, 48 years later, appeared in ''Film/FrostNixon'' with... Kevin Bacon, giving Keaton a Bacon Number of just 2. In 1989 Bacon starred in ''Film/TheBigPicture'', in which he appeared with Creator/JuneLockhart (b.1925), who made her film debut in ''Film/AChristmasCarol1938'', which featured Lionel Braham (b.1879) as the Ghost of Christmas Present.[[note]](Plus an uncredited Halliwell Hobbes, b.1877.)[[/note]] Lockhart's most recent credited film role was in 2016; Braham's first was in 1915. In 2023's ''Leave The World Behind'', meanwhile, Bacon played the father of 10-year-old Alexis Rae Forlenza -- who, born in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, therefore has just 3 degrees of separation from actors born in the 1870s...!
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The perhaps surprising thing is that the ''average'' Bacon Number is just a little under '''3.1'''. When you stop to think about it, though, it quickly becomes apparent why.
Over the several decades of his career, Kevin Bacon has appeared in movies that together credit over 2100 distinct co-stars -- by which we mean everybody with even a tiny onscreen role in those productions, even if they never shared a scene with him. Each of them has a Bacon Number of 1.
And between them those couple of thousand people link to a couple of ''hundred'' thousand other people who have acted in things with at least one of them, but not alongside Bacon himself; each of whom therefore has a Bacon Number of 2. Then at one step further removed, there are over ''680,000'' actors who have at some point appeared alongside one (or more) of those B.N.2s although never alongside a B.N.1 or Bacon himself, making a B.N. of 3 tremendously common.
And here's the interesting bit. Beyond that, as the possible routes back to Bacon have increased exponentially, the number of people with a B.N. of 4 immediately drops sharply to back around the 250,000 mark -- and at a B.N. of 5 the figure collapses to only 32,000, then at 6 to barely 5000 and at 7 to less than a thousand individuals. Because, naturally, once you've got around 1 million more closely connected actors already accounted for, and the algorithms mapping every pathway between them, it swiftly becomes almost impossible for a film actor to ''never'' have worked with anyone in the business who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's ever worked with Kevin.
Researchers have demonstrated (true story!) that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to KB at one point or another appearing in movies with people who've appeared in movies with people who've appeared in movies ''(... etc.)'' with people who've appeared in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. The Oracle of Bacon claims that 21 persons on TMDB have Bacon Numbers of 10, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.
This is all just a silly game, of course. Yet those mathematics associated with it have genuine real-world implications -- see the bottom of this page.
!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon, per se -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been acting in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links. And as soon as you act with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from your own then you will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" shifts over time -- but typically it will be someone who has appeared in many, many films over a considerable period. During his long life and prolific career, for instance, Creator/ChristopherLee was often credited as being this. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson, who on a score of 2.89828 is fractionally more closely linked to everyone else on average than Creator/EricRoberts is, by a mere 0.0041 degrees of separation. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe but a fair way behind the likes of, say, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/VinnieJones, Creator/GaryBusey or Creator/DianeKeaton.
Over the several decades of his career, Kevin Bacon has appeared in movies that together credit over 2100 distinct co-stars -- by which we mean everybody with even a tiny onscreen role in those productions, even if they never shared a scene with him. Each of them has a Bacon Number of 1.
And between them those couple of thousand people link to a couple of ''hundred'' thousand other people who have acted in things with at least one of them, but not alongside Bacon himself; each of whom therefore has a Bacon Number of 2. Then at one step further removed, there are over ''680,000'' actors who have at some point appeared alongside one (or more) of those B.N.2s although never alongside a B.N.1 or Bacon himself, making a B.N. of 3 tremendously common.
And here's the interesting bit. Beyond that, as the possible routes back to Bacon have increased exponentially, the number of people with a B.N. of 4 immediately drops sharply to back around the 250,000 mark -- and at a B.N. of 5 the figure collapses to only 32,000, then at 6 to barely 5000 and at 7 to less than a thousand individuals. Because, naturally, once you've got around 1 million more closely connected actors already accounted for, and the algorithms mapping every pathway between them, it swiftly becomes almost impossible for a film actor to ''never'' have worked with anyone in the business who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's ever worked with Kevin.
Researchers have demonstrated (true story!) that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to KB at one point or another appearing in movies with people who've appeared in movies with people who've appeared in movies ''(... etc.)'' with people who've appeared in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. The Oracle of Bacon claims that 21 persons on TMDB have Bacon Numbers of 10, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.
This is all just a silly game, of course. Yet those mathematics associated with it have genuine real-world implications -- see the bottom of this page.
!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon, per se -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been acting in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links. And as soon as you act with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from your own then you will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" shifts over time -- but typically it will be someone who has appeared in many, many films over a considerable period. During his long life and prolific career, for instance, Creator/ChristopherLee was often credited as being this. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson, who on a score of 2.89828 is fractionally more closely linked to everyone else on average than Creator/EricRoberts is, by a mere 0.0041 degrees of separation. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe but a fair way behind the likes of, say, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/VinnieJones, Creator/GaryBusey or Creator/DianeKeaton.
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Over the several decades of his career, Kevin Bacon has appeared in movies that together credit over 2100 distinct co-stars -- by which we mean everybody with even a tiny onscreen role in those productions, even if they never shared a scene with him. Each of them has a Bacon Number of 1.
And between them those couple of thousand people link to a couple of ''hundred'' thousand other people who have acted in things with at least one of them, but not alongside Bacon himself; each of whom therefore has a Bacon Number of 2. Then at one step further removed, there are over ''680,000'' actors who have at some point appeared alongside one (or more) of those B.N.2s although never alongside a B.N.1 or Bacon himself, making a B.N. of 3 tremendously common.
And here's the interesting bit. Beyond that, as the possible routes back to Bacon have increased exponentially, the number of people with a B.N. of 4 immediately drops sharply to back around the 250,000 mark -- and at a B.N. of 5 the figure collapses to only 32,000, then at 6 to barely 5000 and at 7 to less than a thousand individuals. Because, naturally, once you've got around 1 million more closely connected actors already accounted for, and the algorithms mapping every pathway between them, it swiftly becomes almost impossible for a film actor to ''never'' have worked with anyone in the business who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's ever worked with Kevin.
The perhaps surprising thing is that the average Bacon Number across ''every single person'' in the database, no matter how obscure, is just a little under '''3.1'''. When you stop to think about it, though, it quickly becomes apparent why.
Over the several decades of his career Kevin Bacon has appeared in productions which, put together, feature over 2100 distinct co-stars -- by which we mean everybody with even a tiny onscreen role in them. Even if they never shared a scene with him, each and every one of them has a Bacon Number of 1.
And between them those couple of thousand people link to a couple of ''hundred'' thousand other people who have acted in films with at least one of them, but not with Bacon himself -- each of whom therefore has a Bacon Number of 2. Then at one step further removed, there are over ''680,000'' actors who have at some point appeared alongside one (or more) of those #2s although never alongside a #1 or Bacon himself, making a B.N. of 3 tremendously common.
Now here's the interesting bit. Beyond that, since the possible routes back to Bacon increase exponentially, the number of people with a B.N. of 4 immediately drops sharply to back around the 250,000 mark... and at a B.N. of 5 it collapses to only 32,000, then at 6 to barely 5000 and at 7 to less than a thousand individuals. Because, naturally, once you've got around 1 million more closely connected actors already accounted for, and can map every pathway between them, it swiftly becomes almost impossible for a film actor to have ''never'' worked with anyone in the business who's ever worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with Kevin.
Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Film/SixDegreesOfSeparation''.[[note]](However, Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse'' -- meaning ''Six Degrees Of Separation'' is at two degrees of Kevin Bacon!)[[/note]]
This is all [[JustForFun just a silly
!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon, per se -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been acting in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links. And as soon as you act with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from your own then you will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" shifts over time -- but typically it will be someone who has appeared in many, many films over a considerable period. During his long life and prolific career, for instance, Creator/ChristopherLee was often credited as being this. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson, who on a score of 2.89828 is fractionally more closely linked to everyone else on average than Creator/EricRoberts is, by a mere 0.0041 degrees of separation. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe but a fair way behind the likes of, say, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/VinnieJones, Creator/GaryBusey or Creator/DianeKeaton.
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In professional sports, players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Miñoso number, after Minnie Miñoso, who played in five different decades.
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In professional sports, players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey [[UsefulNotes/IceHockey Ice hockey]] has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} players have the Miñoso number, after Minnie Miñoso, who played in five different decades.
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Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Film/SixDegreesOfSeparation''.[[note]](However, Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse'' -- meaning ''Six Degrees Of Separation'' exists at two degrees of Kevin Bacon!)[[/note]]
For applications in fiction, see OneDegreeOfSeparation.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below).
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films, while others do not include animation or documentaries.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]] The site originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for its connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally TMDB.
Mathematicians have extrapolated this phenomenon and given it a name: "Bacon Number", which sounds like one of those impossibly high numbers with dangerous implications for the future of the Universe but is in fact incredibly low. Researchers have demonstrated (''true story!'') that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to Kevin Bacon appearing in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. For instance, Kevin Bacon, himself, has a Bacon Number of 0. Chew on ''that'', Creator/MrT! (The Oracle of Bacon claims that four persons on the The Movie Database have Bacon Numbers of 10, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.)
Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe.
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films, while others do not include animation or documentaries.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]] The site originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for its connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally TMDB.
Mathematicians have extrapolated this phenomenon and given it a name: "Bacon Number", which sounds like one of those impossibly high numbers with dangerous implications for the future of the Universe but is in fact incredibly low. Researchers have demonstrated (''true story!'') that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to Kevin Bacon appearing in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. For instance, Kevin Bacon, himself, has a Bacon Number of 0. Chew on ''that'', Creator/MrT! (The Oracle of Bacon claims that four persons on the The Movie Database have Bacon Numbers of 10, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.)
Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe.
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This is a game, pop-culture [[JustForFun game]], whose title is a mondegreen {{mondegreen}} of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to the actor Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. steps.
Or, in other words, pick a random actor. Any actor. Now think of someone they've ever appeared in a movie with. Now think of a chain of such individuals, each of whom has acted alongside a ''different'' person, until you reach anyone who's acted in something with Kevin Bacon -- and thereby reach the man himself, in as few steps as possible. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen''with with... Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below).
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films, while others do not include animation or documentaries.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]] The site originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for its connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally TMDB.
''Voilà.''
Mathematicians have extrapolated this phenomenon and given it a name: "Bacon Number", which sounds like one of those impossibly high numbers with dangerous implications for the future of the Universe but is in fact incredibly low. In the example above, Clooney has a Bacon Number of 3: three degrees of separation from the target individual. Damon has a Bacon Number of 2, and Nicholson has the lowest attainable Bacon Number of 1. Kevin Bacon, himself, has the unique Bacon Number of 0.
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]](For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.)[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films; some vary on whether or not to include animation or documentaries.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]] The site's algorithms originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for tracing its web of connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally The Movie Database ([[https://www.themoviedb.org/ TMDB]]).
!! Average Bacon Number
The perhaps surprising thing is that the ''average'' Bacon Number is just a little under '''3.1'''. When you stop to think about it, though, it quickly becomes apparent why.
Over the several decades of his career, Kevin Bacon has appeared in movies that together credit over 2100 distinct co-stars -- by which we mean everybody with even a tiny onscreen role in those productions, even if they never shared a scene with him. Each of them has a Bacon Number of 1.
And between them those couple of thousand people link to a couple of ''hundred'' thousand other people who have acted in things with at least one of them, but not alongside Bacon himself; each of whom therefore has a Bacon Number of 2. Then at one step further removed, there are over ''680,000'' actors who have at some point appeared alongside one (or more) of those B.N.2s although never alongside a B.N.1 or Bacon himself, making a B.N. of 3 tremendously common.
And here's the interesting bit. Beyond that, as the possible routes back to Bacon have increased exponentially, the number of people with a B.N. of 4 immediately drops sharply to back around the 250,000 mark -- and at a B.N. of 5 the figure collapses to only 32,000, then at 6 to barely 5000 and at 7 to less than a thousand individuals. Because, naturally, once you've got around 1 million more closely connected actors already accounted for, and the algorithms mapping every pathway between them, it swiftly becomes almost impossible for a film actor to ''never'' have worked with anyone in the business who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's ever worked with Kevin.
Researchers have demonstrated(''true story!'') (true story!) that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to Kevin Bacon KB at one point or another appearing in movies with people who've appeared in movies with people who've appeared in movies ''(... etc.)'' with people who've appeared in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. For instance, Kevin Bacon, himself, has a Bacon Number of 0. Chew on ''that'', Creator/MrT! (The The Oracle of Bacon claims that four 21 persons on the The Movie Database TMDB have Bacon Numbers of 10, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.)
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This is all just a silly game, of course. Yet those mathematics associated with it have genuine real-world implications -- see the bottom of this page.
!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon, per se -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been acting in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links. And as soon as you act with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from your own then you will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that thecentre "Center of the Hollywood universe Universe" shifts over time.time -- but typically it will be someone who has appeared in many, many films over a considerable period. During his long life and prolific career, for instance, Creator/ChristopherLee was often credited as being this. As of July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Creator/SamuelLJackson, who on a score of 2.89828 is fractionally more closely linked to everyone else on average than Creator/EricRoberts is, by a mere 0.0041 degrees of separation. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe.
universe but a fair way behind the likes of, say, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/VinnieJones, Creator/GaryBusey or Creator/DianeKeaton.
!! Similar numbers in other fields
Or, in other words, pick a random actor. Any actor. Now think of someone they've ever appeared in a movie with. Now think of a chain of such individuals, each of whom has acted alongside a ''different'' person, until you reach anyone who's acted in something with Kevin Bacon -- and thereby reach the man himself, in as few steps as possible. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen''
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films, while others do not include animation or documentaries.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]] The site originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for its connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally TMDB.
Mathematicians have extrapolated this phenomenon and given it a name: "Bacon Number", which sounds like one of those impossibly high numbers with dangerous implications for the future of the Universe but is in fact incredibly low. In the example above, Clooney has a Bacon Number of 3: three degrees of separation from the target individual. Damon has a Bacon Number of 2, and Nicholson has the lowest attainable Bacon Number of 1. Kevin Bacon, himself, has the unique Bacon Number of 0.
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]](For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.)[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films; some vary on whether or not to include animation or documentaries.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]] The site's algorithms originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for tracing its web of connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally The Movie Database ([[https://www.themoviedb.org/ TMDB]]).
!! Average Bacon Number
The perhaps surprising thing is that the ''average'' Bacon Number is just a little under '''3.1'''. When you stop to think about it, though, it quickly becomes apparent why.
Over the several decades of his career, Kevin Bacon has appeared in movies that together credit over 2100 distinct co-stars -- by which we mean everybody with even a tiny onscreen role in those productions, even if they never shared a scene with him. Each of them has a Bacon Number of 1.
And between them those couple of thousand people link to a couple of ''hundred'' thousand other people who have acted in things with at least one of them, but not alongside Bacon himself; each of whom therefore has a Bacon Number of 2. Then at one step further removed, there are over ''680,000'' actors who have at some point appeared alongside one (or more) of those B.N.2s although never alongside a B.N.1 or Bacon himself, making a B.N. of 3 tremendously common.
And here's the interesting bit. Beyond that, as the possible routes back to Bacon have increased exponentially, the number of people with a B.N. of 4 immediately drops sharply to back around the 250,000 mark -- and at a B.N. of 5 the figure collapses to only 32,000, then at 6 to barely 5000 and at 7 to less than a thousand individuals. Because, naturally, once you've got around 1 million more closely connected actors already accounted for, and the algorithms mapping every pathway between them, it swiftly becomes almost impossible for a film actor to ''never'' have worked with anyone in the business who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's worked with anyone who's ever worked with Kevin.
Researchers have demonstrated
Curiously,
This is all just a silly game, of course. Yet those mathematics associated with it have genuine real-world implications -- see the bottom of this page.
!! Center of the Hollywood Universe
Whisper it, but there isn't really anything special (in this context) about Kevin Bacon, per se -- bar his name's happy resemblance to the word "separation".
Anybody who's been acting in Hollywood for any length of time will, the chances are, represent their own Ground Zero in a comparable network of radiating interconnections. There are a few key factors: appearing in large casts, and/or with people who themselves have acted alongside a whole lot of other people, are quick ways of establishing a significant number of close connections. Long-term, a diverse range of productions will broaden the web of possible links. And as soon as you act with someone whose heyday is a long way removed from your own then you will, at a stroke, be connected to a host of actors from decades earlier or later at just a degree or two of separation.
Certainly, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the
!! Similar numbers in other fields
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On a less specific level, the aforementioned serious research into this phenomenon actually has some importance for fields like sociology and epidemiology. In the modern global world, any living or recently deceased person on Earth can apparently be connected to any other person by an astoundingly short chain of connections. For example, in 2019-2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic spread from China to rural tribes within a couple months, simply because statistically there are going to be a handful of people in every major city with a particularly short chain of physical connections to that village.
Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation''. [[note]]However, Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]]
Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation''. [[note]]However, Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]]
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On a less specific level, the aforementioned serious research into this phenomenon actually has some importance for fields like sociology and epidemiology. In the modern global world, any living or recently deceased person on Earth can apparently be connected to any other person by an astoundingly short chain of connections. For example, in 2019-2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic spread from China to rural distant tribes on other continents within a couple of months, simply because statistically there are going to be a handful of people in every major city with a particularly short chain of physical connections to that tribal village.
Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation''. [[note]]However, ''Film/SixDegreesOfSeparation''.[[note]](However, Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]]
''Film/AnimalHouse'' -- meaning ''Six Degrees Of Separation'' exists at two degrees of Kevin Bacon!)[[/note]]
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/HarveyKeitel. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe.
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March July 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/HarveyKeitel.Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking among the top 600 centers of the Hollywood universe.
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/HarveyKeitel. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of among the top 1,000 600 centers of the Hollywood universe. The highest-ranked actress is Creator/GeraldineChaplin (she's in 39th place as of March 2023).
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of the top 1,000 centers of the Hollywood universe. The highest-ranked actress is Creator/GeraldineChaplin (she's in 39th place as of March 2023).
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson.Creator/HarveyKeitel. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of the top 1,000 centers of the Hollywood universe. The highest-ranked actress is Creator/GeraldineChaplin (she's in 39th place as of March 2023).
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Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films, while others do not include animation.
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Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game should be limited to feature-length films, while others do not include animation.
animation or documentaries.
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In professional sports, players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Miñoso number, after Minnie Miñoso, who played in five different decades. Basketball doesn't seem to have a consensus center.[[note]]Ish Smith has played for 13 teams across his career, while Vince Carter is the only player to suit up in four different decades.[[/note]]
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In professional sports, players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Miñoso number, after Minnie Miñoso, who played in five different decades. Basketball doesn't seem to have a consensus center.[[note]]Ish Smith has played for 13 teams across his career, while Vince Carter is the only player to suit up in four different decades.[[/note]]
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There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]]
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There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]]
]] The site originally used the Website/{{IMDb}} for its connections, before moving to Website/{{Wikipedia}} and finally TMDB.
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In professional sports, players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Miñoso number, after Minnie Miñoso, who played in five different decades. Basketball doesn't seem to have a consensus center.[[note]]Ish Smith has played for 13 teams across his career, while Vince Carter is the only player to suit up in four different decades.[[/note]
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In professional sports, players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Miñoso number, after Minnie Miñoso, who played in five different decades. Basketball doesn't seem to have a consensus center.[[note]]Ish Smith has played for 13 teams across his career, while Vince Carter is the only player to suit up in four different decades.[[/note]
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Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Six Degrees of Separation''.''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation''. [[note]]However, Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]]
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of the top 1,000 centers of the Hollywood universe.
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. As of March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php the center of the Hollywood universe]] has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of the top 1,000 centers of the Hollywood universe.
universe. The highest-ranked actress is Creator/GeraldineChaplin (she's in 39th place as of March 2023).
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In professional sports, hockey players are generally connected through teammates, not by playing against other players. Hockey has the Sillinger number, named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Minoso Miñoso number, after Minnie Minoso, Miñoso, who played in five different decades.
decades. Basketball doesn't seem to have a consensus center.[[note]]Ish Smith has played for 13 teams across his career, while Vince Carter is the only player to suit up in four different decades.[[/note]
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors, even voice actors. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors, below).
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voiceactors. It's often a actors.[[note]]For example, Kevin Bacon voiced the title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''.[[/note]] Most players agree that the game for film nerds should be limited to test the abilities of each other.
feature-length films, while others do not include animation.
Every actor has a Bacon Number, even voice
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TabletopGame/{{Chess}} players have a Morphy number, for Paul Morphy, and TabletopGame/{{Go}} players have a Shusaku number, centered on Honinbo Shusaku. Both of those players died in the late 1800s, but if you're interested in a Stiglitz number of 1, economist Joseph Stiglitz is still alive and publishing. Hockey has the Sillinger number, for Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Minoso number, after Minnie Minoso.
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TabletopGame/{{Chess}} players have a Morphy number, for Paul Morphy, and TabletopGame/{{Go}} players have a Shusaku number, centered on Honinbo Shusaku. Both of those players died in the late 1800s, but if you're interested in a Stiglitz number of 1, economist Joseph Stiglitz is still alive and publishing. Hockey publishing.
In professional sports, hockey has the Sillinger number,for named after journeyman Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Minoso number, after Minnie Minoso.
Minoso, who played in five different decades.
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On a less specific level, the aforementioned serious research into this phenomenon actually has some importance for fields like sociology and epidemiology. In the modern global world, any living or recently deceased person on Earth can apparently be connected to any other person by an astoundingly short chain of connections. Even Amazonian tribes avoiding contact with the global modern world have the occasional crossing of paths with members of neighboring villages, which will have ''someone'' who visits the closest major city now and then. Thus, an outbreak of a virus can begin in a rural village in Africa and spread to downtown Tokyo and New York in only a few weeks, simply because statistically there are going to be a handful of people in every major city with a particularly short chain of physical connections to that village.
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On a less specific level, the aforementioned serious research into this phenomenon actually has some importance for fields like sociology and epidemiology. In the modern global world, any living or recently deceased person on Earth can apparently be connected to any other person by an astoundingly short chain of connections. Even Amazonian For example, in 2019-2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic spread from China to rural tribes avoiding contact with the global modern world have the occasional crossing of paths with members of neighboring villages, which will have ''someone'' who visits the closest major city now and then. Thus, an outbreak of within a virus can begin in a rural village in Africa and spread to downtown Tokyo and New York in only a few weeks, couple months, simply because statistically there are going to be a handful of people in every major city with a particularly short chain of physical connections to that village.
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TabletopGame/{{Chess}} players have a Morphy number, for Paul Morphy, and TabletopGame/{{Go}} players have a Shusaku number, centered on Honinbo Shusaku. Both of those players died in the late 1800s, but if you're interested in a Stiglitz number of 1, economist Joseph Stiglitz is still alive and publishing. Professional sports has the Sillinger number, for hockey player Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Minoso number, after Minnie Minoso.
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TabletopGame/{{Chess}} players have a Morphy number, for Paul Morphy, and TabletopGame/{{Go}} players have a Shusaku number, centered on Honinbo Shusaku. Both of those players died in the late 1800s, but if you're interested in a Stiglitz number of 1, economist Joseph Stiglitz is still alive and publishing. Professional sports Hockey has the Sillinger number, for hockey player Mike Sillinger. Baseball players have the Minoso number, after Minnie Minoso.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors, even voice actors[[note]]Most foreign voice actors are . It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors, even voice actors[[note]]Most foreign voice actors are .actors. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves,[[note]]She was in ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon.[[/note]] and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves,[[note]]She was in ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon.[[/note]] and most Japanese actors, even voice actors[[note]]Most foreign voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees.are . It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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Mathematicians have extrapolated this phenomenon and given it a name: "Bacon Number", which sounds like one of those impossibly high numbers with dangerous implications for the future of the Universe but is in fact incredibly low. Researchers have demonstrated (''true story!'') that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to Kevin Bacon appearing in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. For instance, Kevin Bacon, himself, has a Bacon Number of 0. Chew on ''that'', Creator/MrT! (The Oracle of Bacon claims that three persons on the Website/IMDb have Bacon Numbers of 9, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.)
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Mathematicians have extrapolated this phenomenon and given it a name: "Bacon Number", which sounds like one of those impossibly high numbers with dangerous implications for the future of the Universe but is in fact incredibly low. Researchers have demonstrated (''true story!'') that almost everyone has a Bacon Number less than 10, due to Kevin Bacon appearing in, mathematically speaking, almost every film on the planet. For instance, Kevin Bacon, himself, has a Bacon Number of 0. Chew on ''that'', Creator/MrT! (The Oracle of Bacon claims that three four persons on the Website/IMDb The Movie Database have Bacon Numbers of 9, 10, the highest listed, but does not say who they are.)
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TabletopGame/{{Chess}} players have a Morphy number, for Paul Morphy, and TabletopGame/{{Go}} players have a Shusaku number, centered on Honinbo Shusaku. Both of those players died in the late 1800s, but if you're interested in a Stiglitz number of 1, economist Joseph Stiglitz is still alive and publishing. Professional sports has the Sillinger number, for hockey player Mike Sillinger. Presumably, someone out there has a defined Sabbath-Bacon-Erdős-Morphy-Shusaku-Stiglitz-Sillinger number, [[note]]now ''that's'' gonna bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt![[/note]] but neither the person nor the number has yet been found.
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TabletopGame/{{Chess}} players have a Morphy number, for Paul Morphy, and TabletopGame/{{Go}} players have a Shusaku number, centered on Honinbo Shusaku. Both of those players died in the late 1800s, but if you're interested in a Stiglitz number of 1, economist Joseph Stiglitz is still alive and publishing. Professional sports has the Sillinger number, for hockey player Mike Sillinger. Presumably, someone out there has a defined Sabbath-Bacon-Erdős-Morphy-Shusaku-Stiglitz-Sillinger Baseball players have the Minoso number, [[note]]now ''that's'' gonna bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt![[/note]] but neither the person nor the number has yet been found.
after Minnie Minoso.
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, even fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]]
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, even fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]]
]] For TV show characters, there's the [[Series/StElsewhere Tommy Westphall]] number.
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Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Six Degrees of Separation''. [[note]]However, Donald Sutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]]
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Ironically, Kevin Bacon did not have anything at all to do with the movie ''Six Degrees of Separation''. [[note]]However, Donald Sutherland Creator/DonaldSutherland featured in that movie, and he appeared with Kevin Bacon in ''Film/AnimalHouse''[[/note]]
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. The sheer amount of acting credits amassed by Creator/ChristopherLee seem to have entrenched him [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php as the center of the Hollywood universe]] for a while, even after his 2015 death. He still holds the title as of May 2021, but Creator/HarveyKeitel is nipping at his heels, and, among living actors, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/MartinSheen are close behind too. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of the top 1,000 centers of the Hollywood universe.
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Curiously, the most connected person in acting is not Kevin Bacon. Research by people who found it important enough to do so discovered that the centre of the Hollywood universe shifts over time. The sheer amount As of acting credits amassed by Creator/ChristopherLee seem to have entrenched him March 2023, [[https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php as the center of the Hollywood universe]] for a while, even after his 2015 death. He still holds the title as of May 2021, but Creator/HarveyKeitel is nipping at his heels, and, among living actors, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/MartinSheen are close behind too.has shifted to Creator/SamuelLJackson. Bacon himself isn't even all that high on the list, typically ranking somewhere in the 500s out of the top 1,000 centers of the Hollywood universe.
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On a less specific level, the aforementioned serious research into this phenomenon actually has some importance for fields like sociology and epidemiology. In the modern global world, any living or recently deceased person on Earth can apparently be connected to any other person by an astoundingly short chain of connections. Even Amazonian tribes avoiding contact with the global modern world have the occasional crossing of paths with members of neighboring villages, which will have ''someone'' who visits the closest major city now and then. Thus, an outbreak of a virus can begin in a rural village in Africa and spread to downtown Tokyo and New York in only a few weeks, simply because statistically there are going to be a handfull of people in every major city with a particularly short chain of physical connections to that village.
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On a less specific level, the aforementioned serious research into this phenomenon actually has some importance for fields like sociology and epidemiology. In the modern global world, any living or recently deceased person on Earth can apparently be connected to any other person by an astoundingly short chain of connections. Even Amazonian tribes avoiding contact with the global modern world have the occasional crossing of paths with members of neighboring villages, which will have ''someone'' who visits the closest major city now and then. Thus, an outbreak of a virus can begin in a rural village in Africa and spread to downtown Tokyo and New York in only a few weeks, simply because statistically there are going to be a handfull handful of people in every major city with a particularly short chain of physical connections to that village.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves,[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon.[[/note]] and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves,[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon.[[/note]] and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]]
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, even fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]]
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu/ number]].
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Thanks to {{Crossover}}s, fictional characters aren't exempt from this phenomenon. For video game characters, there's the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] [[https://www.fanbyte.com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu/ number]].
com/lists/six-degrees-of-ryu number.]]
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves,[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon[[/note]] and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves,[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon[[/note]] Bacon.[[/note]] and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon[[/note]], and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is found [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php here.]]
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is found [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php here.]]
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This is a game, whose title is a mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves[[note]]She moves,[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon[[/note]], Bacon[[/note]] and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that isfound [[http://oracleofbacon.org/index.php found here.]]
There is a whole website, The Oracle of Bacon, dedicated to this that is
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This is a game, whose title is a {{Mondegreen}} of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon[[/note]], and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
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This is a game, whose title is a {{Mondegreen}} mondegreen of ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to Creator/KevinBacon within six steps. For example: Creator/GeorgeClooney was in ''Film/OceansEleven'' with Creator/MattDamon, Matt Damon was in ''Film/TheDeparted'' with Creator/JackNicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' with Kevin Bacon. Nicholson has a Bacon number of 1, Damon has a Bacon number of 2, and Clooney has a Bacon number of 3 (see below). It should be noted that this spreads across all actors; Music/MegumiHayashibara can be linked to Kevin in only two moves[[note]]She was in ''Anime/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', which included Micheal [=McShane=] in the dub. He was in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' with Kevin Bacon[[/note]], and most Japanese voice actors can be linked to her within a few degrees. It's often a game for film nerds to test the abilities of each other.
