How many degrees am I?

[hellziggy]

dibsy was talking about six degrees of separation/Kevin Bacon in his LJ.

So, a challenge to y'all... Name someone and I'll figure out if I can link myself to them in six degrees or less.

Doesn't have to be an actor, but someone like "Joe Smith" in Pennsylvania wouldn't work, because I have to be able to know who they are to connect myself.

I am no more than 4 degrees from Kevin Bacon. I could probably bring it down to only two or three with a little bit of effort... but I don't feel like going through the casts of Kevin Bacon's movies at the moment.

I met Adam Baldwin at a convention
Adam Baldwin was in Full Metal Jacket with Matthew Modine.
Matthew Modine was in Notting Hill with Julia Roberts.
Julia Roberts was in Flatliners with Kevin Bacon.

Comments

[girlpire.livejournal.com]

you are only three degrees from me! because i have met alan tudyk and summer glau. :)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[kokopellinelli]

Gerard Butler OR Oded Fehr!

[freyjakj.livejournal.com]

Ooo--good challenge.

A Sci-Fi actor...no no, you have been to too many cons...

How about: Bill Gates

[freyjakj.livejournal.com]

Ooo - I just thought of a possible link, though me - do you want a hint??

[mhuot.livejournal.com]

I found a closer conection

Adam Baldwin was in Ordinary People with Donald Sutherland.
Donald Sutherland was in Animal House with Kevin Bacon.

Isn't IMDB a wonderful thing!

[kajicarter.livejournal.com]

Animal House is a wonderful shortcut for this game...so many interesting people were in it!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

me.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Oded Fehr was in Presidio Med w/Julianne Nicholson.
Julianne Nicholson was in the movie Tully.
I met one of the writers of the movie at the 2002 Central Standard Film Festival.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

sure. :)
I'm not 100% awake yet to think about these things!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Not sure who Gerard Butler is so I'll have to try that one later.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Oded Fehr was in Presidio Med w/Julianne Nicholson.
Julianne Nicholson was in the movie Tully.
I met one of the writers of the movie at the 2002 Central Standard Film Festival.

Or, if this doesn't count because I can't remember the name of the dude I met:

Oded Fehr was in Presidio Med w/Julianne Nicholson.
Julianne Nicholson is in the new series Conviction w/J. August Richard.
J. August Richard was on Angel w/James Marsters & Adam Baldwin, both of whom I have met.

[dibsy.livejournal.com]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

Greg Bear.

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Me. Using the "legitimate" rules of movies-only links.

Remember, I have been in one feature film.

By my own work, my movies-only Bacon number is 3.

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

By the way, I think you're a 3, not a 4.

Adam Baldwin was in My Bodyguard with Matt Dillon.
Matt Dillon was in Loverboy with Kevin Bacon.

[kokopellinelli]

*fangirls you*

[kokopellinelli]

He's the Phaaaaaaaaantom oooof the Oooop'raaaaaaa!

[kokopellinelli]

Who was Adam Baldwin on Angel?

Man, you've met a lot of famous people. I've met...uh...none. Though I have been in the same room as Romulus and Laura Linney.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

He's a sci-fi author, right?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

He was Hamilton at the end of Season 5 (the liason to the senior partners after Eve)

It's almost all conventions! Remember, I'm the drooling fangirl that drove 1000 miles to touch James Marsters! I offered to pick you up on our way through Wisconsin...

[kokopellinelli]

I know it was all conventions. Doesn't make it any less impressive. We occasionally have semi-famous people (more often playwrights than actors or musicians, though) coming into town to attend the summer theater conference, which might not be happening this year due to the woman who was manning the helm fleeing the city.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that I'll get there through a political route:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez' good friend Maruja Pachon de Villamizar was kidnapped by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in 1990.
If I figure out how to get from Escobar to Ronald Reagan then I've got it because my Uncle Roddy knew Reagan.
so I've got to get from Escobar to Reagan (or Carter or Nixon) in two steps and I've got it!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, MHuot found a three for me too. I just didn't have the energy to find it last night, but I knew it had to be there! :)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

K. Think I got it.
He won a Hugo the same year as Michael Whelan. I'm going to assume they were both at the ceremony.
I'm also going to assume that Whelan has met Anne MacCaffrey since he did so many Pern covers.
My sister & brother-in-law met MacCaffrey at a World Con and got me much battered & loved copy of Dragonflight signed by her.

Or... If he has ever met Harlan Ellison,
Harlan petted chebutykin's bald head when she was the auction runner at an auction he was MCing.
Chebutykin used to live in my basement.

[freyjakj.livejournal.com]

I used to be babysitter for three heirs of the Binger/McKnight fortunes (wife was a McKnight, husband was a Binger) ...that must hook up to Bill Gates somehow...


^_^

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I seem to remember meeting Greg Bear himself at a convention somewhere...

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

SCORE!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

One. dakegra is my LJ friend!
Oh, you mean like involving actual physical meetings, don't you?
So, who have you met that I might have heard of? You've met Jasper Fforde, haven't you? Any other authors or actors?

is this three or four?

[jenwolf.livejournal.com]

My husband went to UIUC, where he took an entemology class taught by Lawrence Hanks, Tom Hanks' half brother. Tom Hanks was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon.

Re: is this three or four?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Jim's three, you're four. :)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Got it in four!
Bill Gates was once a guest on the Rosie O'Donnell show.
Rosie O'Donnell was on 3 episodes of the US Queer as Folk with Scott Lowell.
Scott Lowell used to hang out with James Marsters when they were both in Chicago theater.
James is my boyfriend. :) He did call me 'love,' after all.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Three.

Gerard Butler was in Dracula 2000 with Nathan Fillian
Nathan Fillian was on Firefly w/Adam Baldwin.
I met Adam Baldwin in Toronto.

[kokopellinelli]

Nathan was in Dracula 2000? Huh.

[freyjakj.livejournal.com]

Yay! Very cool.

[passaddhi.livejournal.com]

Can I please be farther away from Adam Baldwin?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Sure. I'll take him off your hands!
(I still need to see the yearbook photo!)

[passaddhi.livejournal.com]

It's sitting right by the front door, actually, so I remember next time I see you!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Hey, remember this from months ago?
I never did link myself to Gerard Butler, but now I can do it in TWO!!!
Gerard is in New York filming P.S. I Love You with James Marsters, and James is my boyfriend! Yay!
You can't even imagine how much I want to hop a plane to New York 'cuz James is being super sweet about talking to fans who come to the set.

[kokopellinelli]

YAY!