The Oracle of Bacon

Discussion in 'Movies, TV and Music' started by slipknotter, Mar 31, 2003.

  1. slipknotter

    slipknotter New Member

    May 31, 2000
    Austin, TX
    Kevin Bacon is God? http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/
    I have yet to find someone whose Bacon # is bigger than 3. Give it a go and notice how the Bacon rules the Universe.
     
  2. Nobby

    Nobby New Member

    Feb 18, 2002
    Kirkland, WA
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    N. Poltavseva was in Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) with Aleksandr Antonov
    Aleksandr Antonov was in Seeds of Freedom (1943) with Russell (I) Collins
    Russell (I) Collins was in Niagara (1953) with George Ives
    George Ives was in Stir of Echoes (1999) with Kevin Bacon

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  3. Unorthodox Yank

    Feb 27, 2001
    Constant Flux
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    ive actually seen it before.

    what is harder (or...maye even easier) is the complete game weher you can compare anybody to anybody else.
     
  4. Frieslander

    Frieslander Member
    Staff Member

    Feb 14, 2000
    North Jersey
    7 or 8 years ago, while I was a freshman in college, before the Kevin Bacon thing got popular I had a roommate who could connect any actor you could think of to any other actor. Not just Kevin Bacon. It often took more than 7 "degrees" but it was mighty impressive.
     
  5. MeridianFC

    MeridianFC Member

    Jul 26, 1999
    Washington, DC USA
    I've been completely obsessed with this all day. I was going to get 4 if it killed me:

    Utaemon Ichikawa was in Oedo go-nin otoko (1951) with Isuzu Yamada
    Isuzu Yamada was in Kurosawa (2001) with James Coburn
    James Coburn was in Mr. Patman (1980) with Gary Chalk
    Gary Chalk was in Trapped (2002) with Kevin Bacon

    I think a Bacon numbe of 5 is not possible unless you list your name from home movies.
     
  6. slipknotter

    slipknotter New Member

    May 31, 2000
    Austin, TX
    According to the inbreds at UVA, here's their current breakdown, a ratio of Bacon number/how many actors/actresses have that Bacon number:
    0 1
    1 1666
    2 129073
    3 340639
    4 80736
    5 6327
    6 727
    7 118
    8 24
    9 9
    10 1
     
  7. YITBOS

    YITBOS Member+

    Jul 2, 2001
    1.3 hours from CCS
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Saddam Hussein:
    3 degrees.

    Saddam Hussein was in Saddam Hussein: Defying the World - A Visual Biography (1990) with George Bush
    George Bush was in Last Party, The (1993) with Laura Dern
    Laura Dern was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon

    The oracle gave Osama bin Laden as infinity.

    From the web site:
    About 12% of all actors cannot be linked to the rest of the movie universe, either because they have appeared only in TV features or straight-to-video releases that the Oracle doesn't count, or because they have not appeared in any features with actors from the Hollywood mainstream.

    However, I watched an episode of South Park the other night that clearly had Osama in it! Therefore, the link goes:

    Osama bin Laden appeared in South Park episode 509 (2001) with Eric Cartman.

    Eric Cartman was in South Park episode 301 (1999) with Jennifer Aniston's voice of Miss Stevens, the Choir Teacher.

    Jennifer Aniston was in Picture Perfect (1997) with Kevin Bacon.

    This means that bin Laden has a Kevin Bacon number of 3!
     

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