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Bacon vs. Erdos - it's a numbers game

from The Mr Science Show

external site | Recommend | Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:51

Remember movie star Kevin Bacon, who fought so bravely for our right to dance in Footloose?His dance activism aside, Bacon is probably best known for spawning the trivia game Six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The game is based upon the assumption that all actors can be linked to Bacon through their film roles in six steps. For example, Brad Pitt starred with Bacon in Sleepers, so he is connected by one film and has what is known as a "Bacon number" of one. In Top Gun, Val Kilmer starred with Tom Cruise, who starred with Bacon in A Few Good Men, so he has a Bacon number of two.This theory that every actor...