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Most complicated game of Six of Degrees of Kevin Bacon[0] that I've heard of. :)

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

What I find funny about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is that he is married to Kyra Sedgwick, who is the half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern. Mike Stern played with Miles Davis and Miles Davis is basically the Paul Erdos or Kevin Bacon of jazz.

I've heard that Kevin Bacon isn't actually the Kevin Bacon of the Kevin Bacon game; some researchers a few years back crunched the numbers and determined that the most-connected actor was actually Rod Steiger (having starred in a wide range of highbrow and lowbrow movies over a very long career).

Maybe somebody else has since overtaken Steiger, though. Maybe even Kevin Bacon himself!

Edit to add: ha, I see there's a calculation at The Oracle of Bacon: http://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php Not sure how frequently this is updated, but the top few names definitely sound plausible.

Bacon is actually #565 on that list. Probably not a serious contender :)

Interesting to see the first woman on that list is at #21 (Geraldine Chaplin).

> https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-pig-virus-potential-t...

I submit Danny Trejo as a candidate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo_filmography

Could have been Steiger at some point - only Trevor Howard (just) above him in the list predeceased him.

If you find it funny that Kevin Bacon is within 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon of someone else, you're kind of misunderstanding the idea of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Challenge: Find the link between Kevin Bacon and President Tyler

On a podcast I listened to recently, Kevin Bacon said he didn't really like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon because he felt it was fun of him at his expense.

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