The Kevin Bacon Game - Tournament Level

The Kevin Bacon Game: can you get to Kevin Bacon, who has been in so many movies, in six steps or less? Because one of us is over 60, we play Tournament Level: five or less, no matter who or when.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Smoke and Mirrors -- James Arness


Dan has made me into as big a movie geek as he is.  We started playing the KBG about two years ago, and recently it's gotten to the state that we start trying to trace the links to everybody in a movie.  This blog isn't really for you or the average modern film geek -- most of these movies and tv shows are old -- but to keep a record for us.  Neither of us is so young any more (oh, hell, we're old), and I really can't play this with anybody else.  It's in the black template so it will look like movie credits.

This particular jump sequence is easy.  At Emerald City Comicon, I stood near where Leonard Nimoy was signing autographs and looked upon him long enough for those little light waves to register.  This is a loose or sloppy link (no direct conversation or interaction), so our connection to James Arness isn't difficult or distant.  We start easy, so future posts will be more insane.

James Arness the hard way:  my husband Dan Barr - our friend Angela Rhoads - Angela's father, who was in the Pearl Harbor documentary December 7th - the director John Ford - the actor James Arness, whom Ford directs as the idiot Klegg brother in Wagonmaster.
I'm not going to count Nimoy for Boston Legal because I got that years ago watching George Takai play ping-pong.

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