Kevin Bacon is well known for a college movie trivia game called [Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon]
?, which is intended to find the
Bacon number of an arbitrary actor or actress. The Bacon number of an actor or actress is determined as follows:
- Kevin Bacon has a Bacon number of zero.
- The Bacon number of actor or actress A is defined to be the minimum of the Bacon numbers of all the actors or actresses with whom M appeared in a movie produced by a major studio, plus one.
It is an unproven theorem of this game that everyone who has ever appeared in any movie has a finite 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 +infinity by definition.)
The Bacon number is an application of the same idea as the Erdos number in Mathematics to the movie industry.
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