Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a parlor game created in 1994 by three college students. Premised on the notion that any two humans are no more than six acquaintances apart, and also that Kevin Bacon claimed in a 1994 interview he had worked with just about everybody or their colleagues in Hollywood, the game starts with an arbitrarily chosen Hollywood name and the players must trace his/her connection to Bacon. My wife, Deborah, it so happens, is herself only two degrees of separation from Bacon. [...]
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