There is a sort of pop-culture game out there, which many of you may have heard of or even played, called "The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"; affectionately named after the widely-known actor. The concept is, because Kevin Bacon himself seems to have starred or appeared in every movie under the sun (see for yourself here), to select another actor/actress and try to connect the two from a film history perspective as quickly, and in as few matches, as possible. For example, Johnny Depp. I could say Johnny Depp was in "Ed Wood" with Sarah Jessica Parker who was in "Footloose" with Kevin Bacon. So, it took me two matches to connect Depp to Bacon. Obviously, the more obscure the actor/actress, the more difficult to match that individual to Kevin Bacon. Today, while mindlessly browsing the Internet as a break from reality, I came across a very unique website that was created I suppose to assist one in his efforts to master the Bacon game. It's called The Oracle of Bacon. It enables you to enter a name of any actor/actress, then automatically provides the matches that will connect the two. If you don't like the initial match, there's also a button which you can click to see an alternative match. The site also gives each actor/actress a Bacon number that indicates how many matches it took to connect that person to Kevin Bacon. For example, the Johnny Depp scenario above would have a Bacon number of 2. Anyway, nothing groundbreaking about it, but something new nonetheless. If you have some time to kill and a computer handy it might be worth checking out for a few minutes.
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