Kevin Bacon’s face is everywhere.
The prolific character actor has appeared in numerous movies, television shows
and commercials — so many in fact that he is the subject of the popular game
known as “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
It’s based on the theory that anyone
on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of
acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. Theoretically you know
someone who knows someone else who knows this other person who knows someone
who knows someone else, by which time you should have established a connection
with just about anyone anywhere in the world.
In the case of the Kevin Bacon game,
one player names an actor and the other one attempts to make a connection in
six moves, through actors who have acted with that one actor, with Kevin Bacon.
Though Kevin Bacon is almost
instantly recognizable, there was this time he worked with a makeup artist who
created a prosthetic that made very subtle changes to Bacon’s face. Suddenly he
was able to walk around Los Angeles without being recognized.
He didn’t like it.
“It was almost disturbing,” he said.
“People kind of looked right through me and weren’t nice to me.” The actor said
that because of his fame, he was used to being treated well, and suddenly he was
no longer getting those strokes.1
Out of “uniform”
Most of us aren’t as famous as Kevin
Bacon, but we may have had a similar experience. Perhaps we clerk in a grocery
store, are a nurse in a doctor’s
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