Six Degrees of Separation fro Kevin Bacon: The Girls of Beverly Hills 90210

She was only on "Beverly Hills 90210" for a few episodes after she was fired from the show (?!), but we have decided to put two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank (pictured bottom) on this select list of female stars of the teenage or tweenage soap opera which ran for 10 years and 292 episodes.

For this entry, we are looking at how many degrees of separation each actress is away from Kevin Bacon. And, as to not offend, blog readers in Algeria, Dubai and Pakistan, we have halal bacon (yes, we are not making up!) as out center image.


Let's start with Tori Spelling (pictured top), she is two degrees separated from the star of the original "Footloose" as was in the film "Sol Goode" (2003) with Octavia Spencer who was in "Beauty Shop" (2005) with Bacon.

Or 'fellow Turkish-American' (well, she is like one-eighth Turkish) Tiffani Thiessen is also two degrees removed as she was in "Ladies Man" (2000) with Julianne Moore who was in "Crazy Stupid Love" (2011) with Bacon.

Shannen Doherty, one of the anchor stars of '90210,' was in "Night Shift" (1982) with Clint Howard, who was the brother of that film's director Ron Howard, and Clint was in the tear-jerker "My Dog Skip" (2000) with Bacon.

Lastly, Swank was in "P.S. I Love You," which is NOT one of the films she Oscared for with Harry Connick Jr. who was also in "My Dog Skip" with (you guessed it) Kevin Bacon!


http://www.torispelling.com

http://www.oracelofbacon.org

http://www.bacontoday.com

http://www.ilovebacon.com

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: The Stars of "Three Amigos"

Wow! We were actually experiencing Blogger's Block, something we seldom get stuck in here. In fact, if anything we have too many ideas, and we've worried that blogging was keeping us from doing the important things in life like grooming our pet Yorkie Terrier Mandy (this is a joke...btw).

But, we were listening to the Queen record "The Game," and the track "Another One Bites the Dust" made us realize that our faithful readers in Latvia, Slovenia and Bulgaria (yes, we do get regular hits from these places!) had to have a new entry for today.

So, we came up with a look at what is now a bit of a retro web site, since it became popular way, way back in the late 1990s: It is The Oracle of Bacon; the site refers to actor Kevin Bacon and it was devised by a former University of Virginia student.

For this entry, we initially thought we'd check out some very obscure actors, by American standards, including the late Turkish comic actor Kemal Sunal, who is three degrees removed from Kevin Bacon, but we thought that might just cause too much confusion.

Hence, we came up with the three stars of the kinda cult film "Three Amigos" (1986) which was a comedic homage of sorts to "The Wild Bunch."

Those three actors are Steve Martin (pictured top), Chevy Chase (pictured bottom) and Martin Short.

Steve Martin and Martin Short have both actually been in films with Bacon. Steve Martin was in "Novocaine" (2001) with the original "Footloose" star while Martin Short teamed together with him in "The Big Picture" (1989).

But, Chase is two degrees removed from Bacon. He starred in the film "Vegas Vacation" (1997) which also featured Jeffrey Donovan who was with Bacon in "Sleepers"(1996).

Steve Martin is also a highly regarded banjo player (in addition to being a writer), and he will perform with the Steep Canyon Rangers in Waterbury, Conn., on June 21.

So, there you go Blogger's Block is over, now we have to take care of insomnia!

http://www.oracleofbacon.com

http://www.stevemartin.com

Six Degrees of Separation_ Rodney Dangerfield (Entry 5 of 11)

Since we featured Chevy Chase for our last entry, we will turn to his "Caddyshack" golf partner the late Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) for today's entry which shows the degrees of separation a given star has from Kevin Bacon.

We are, of course (don't tell anyone), borrowing this from the oracleofbacon.org

The man who got 'no respect' was in "Back to School" (1986) with Burt Young who was in "New York, I Love You" (2008) with Bacon.

Upcoming entries in this series will include Turhan Bey and Rin Tin Tin........!

"Caddyshack" airs at 8 p.m. on January 8 (Thursday) on AMC.

Six Degrees of Separation_ Gene Autry (entry 3 of 11)

According to the Oracle of Bacon web site, singing cowboy actor Gene Autry of "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" is three degrees of separation away from Kevin Bacon, for whom the site is named after.

Autry was in "Robin Hood of Texas" (1947) with Paul Bryar who was in "A Change of Season" (1980) with Steve Eastin who was in "Rails and Ties" (2007) with Bacon.

Tomorrow we will offer a special edition of this series with another actor known for a certain Christmas film.

Six Degrees of Separation_ Bing Crosby (Entry 2)

Since we are still in the holiday season, I thought I'd go with the late crooner Bing Crosby, who has a baseball stadium named after him in Front Royal, Va., for my second entry in the Six Degrees series, in which we see how many films separate a given star from Kevin Bacon (oracleofbacon.org)

Bing Crosby was in "Say One for Me" (1959) with
Robert Wagner who was in "Wild Things" (1998) with
Kevin Bacon.

Yes, we go from Frank Zappa to Bing Crosby. I loved their duet version** of "Little Drummer Boy" way back when..........









**(yeah, I know it's Crosby and David Bowie)

Six Degrees of Separation (Entry 1 of 11)

Actor Peter Billingsley, who is a producer for the current Vince Vaughn/Reese Whitherspoon comedy "The Four Christmases," was the chubby star of "A Christmas Story" (1983), a delightful comedy which has stood the test of time.

He is also two degrees away from Kevin Bacon, according to The Oracle of Bacon (oracleofbacon.org):

Peter Billingsley was in "Iron Man" (2008) with Clark Gregg who was in "The Air That I Breathe" with Bacon.

If you have any ideas for the next entry in this series, feel free to leave a comment here!