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    I play a similar game sometimes, inspired by this one.

    Any time I read the page of anything about media, I try to make my way back to Will Oldham. It’s shockingly easy for an artist most people have never heard of

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    Title made me think this was just an article explaining the well known Kevin Bacon thing, but it’s so much more than that!

    Very well put together, lots of fun data to sift through. Turns out Bacon is not the centre of Hollywood and never has been.

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    All that data and they never mentioned that Kevin Bacon kind of rhymes with Separation and that made his name the best fit, given that six degrees of separation was already a phrase.

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    My mother worked at a company that also employed the mother of Brendan Fraser, who was in The Air I Breathe (2007) with Keven Bacon.

    So my Bacon Number is 4 despite not being an actor.
    My

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    Samuel L. Jackson ::: number is actually 1 higher.

    The company in question was a cemetery. My mom did telemarketing, they called it the “pre-need” dept.

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      Mines also relatively low, one of my mom’s old coworkers husbands did set design or something on a Kevin Bacon film in the 90s.

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      Adolf Hitler was in a number of propaganda films, including 1940’s The March for the Fuhrer, with German actress Elsa Wagner. Wagner starred in The Pedestian with Maximilian Schell, who starred in Telling Lies in America with Kevin Bacon.