Degrees (was Other Academy Awards)

[wynnde1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/2002 11:22:39 AM GMT Standard Time, 
HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com writes:


> > I was in a high-school student film with a musician who was in a 
> > college student film with a theater major who later was in a film 
> > with the kid who played Josh's best friend in _Big_ (I think his name 
> > was David Moscow).  Thus, playing fast and loose with the definition 
> > of "actor" and "movie," I have a Kevin Bacon number of 5.  ;)
> 
> My ex-nanny's best friend is Eliza Dushku.  Faith from Buffy.  I met her.  
> ;-)
> 
> 

This is my first post here (haven't even posted to the main HP4GU group yet), 
and I'm somewhat embarrassed to be making my first post on this subject 
instead of saying something wildly profound and meaningful about Harry Potter 
<ggg> but I just LOVE this whole degrees thing. <G> I'm sure I can get to 
Kevin Bacon in 4, maybe even 3, but I'll need some help - (I'm actually not 
much of a KB fan, so I don't know much about his movies - I just love the 
concept of being degrees away from people). Actually, it seems that it would 
be difficult to be more than 6 or 7 degrees away from anyone on the planet 
(maybe that's the point of the whole thing, after all).

Here's me: When I was little and growing up in Los Angeles (somewhere around 
four years old), I had a piano teacher named Rose Perente (sp?). Years later, 
she played one of the nuns in "Sister Act" with Whoopi Goldberg. So that puts 
me just 2 degrees from Whoopi, who knows TONS of people in Hollywood! And 
around the world, for that matter! Has Whoopi been in a movie with KB? And if 
not, then what would be the next closest connection? I know it does get me to 
three with another of my fav actors - Jeremy Irons (Lion King). 

Also, just how close do you have to be to make that first connection? Does a 
45 -second conversation with Alan Rickman at the stage door of the Albury 
Theatre count? I did actually speak to him and he responded, and I said 
something else and he laughed. Does this get me 1 degree to Alan Rickman? 
This won't likely get me closer to Kevin Bacon any quicker, but I'd rather be 
close to AR than KB any day! ;-)

:-)
Wynnde

Wynnde A. St. John
Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
<A HREF="wynnde1 at aol.com">wynnde1 at aol.com</A>


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