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Aside from his acting career, Kevin Bacon is well known for a college movie trivia game which is intended to find the Bacon number of an arbitrary actor or actress.
# the actor or actress is chosen
# If the actor or actress appeared in a movie with Kevin Bacon, the movie is named, and the Bacon Number is one.
# If the actor or actress never appeared in a movie with Kevin Bacon, but someone else appeared in a movie with them, and also in a separate movie with Kevin Bacon, then the actor or actress gets a Bacon number of two, and 'linking' person is mentioned, and both movies are named.
# Progressively longer chains of connecting persons are constructed.

It is an unproven theorem of this game that everyone who has ever appeared in any movie has a Bacon number. Movies with no actors are ignored as are movies with only one actor. (Although some people claim actors who only appeared in a single movie and were the only actor in that movie have a Bacon Number of Zero by definition)
See also Bacon number.

Kevin Bacon is an American actor who starred in Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among others.

See also Bacon number.


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