MOVE OVER, BACON...

[ASIDE: That was a long enough break from blogging, no?]

OK, so if you don't already know about that lame trivia game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, here's the (very) skinny: at some point in time, so Resivoir Dogs-loving movie nerd, uh, I mean... movie buff figured out that all actors can be linked back to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less. Uncle John gives this example: O.J. Simpson was in Naked Gun, with Priscilla Presley, who was in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane with Gilbert Gottfried, who was in Beverly Hills Cop II with Paul Riser, who was in the movie Diner, with... yup, you've guessed it!

And as if that wasn't nerdy enough, some computer scientist at the University of Virgina crunched the data to arrive at the number of actual degrees an actor rests from the Footloose-one. This number is called a bacon number. [Insert off-color Miss Piggy joke here.] The average distance is 2.917, or less that three degrees...

but that isn't the scary part.

No, this theory was applied to other actors (based on information at IMdB), and it seems there are other actors with lower bacon numbers. Some of the winners include Shelley Winters (who clocked in at 2.75 degrees). Wanna know who else beat the Bacon-Master? Check out the site dedicated to the study of Bacon Numbers. Until then...