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.

Friday, November 18, 2011

The Body In The Bath

Dan is ONE step from the (possible) Seattle Sheraton Hotel ghost.

It's in room 2413.  No ghost was ever seen, but the TV won't stay off.

As a security supervisor, Dan guarded the body of a naked, strangled female found in the bathtub, until the police arrived.  The body was found by one of the female room attendants.  The chiropractor boyfriend had taken off for California, where he later turned himself in, in Sacramento.  The body was found Valentine's Day, 1988 (?).  His name was Christopher Edward Prebosky (he confessed and did some time).

Dan says room attendants would find the TV on, turn it off, leave, come back, and find it on again. This happened repeatedly.

Nothing else ever happened, but that's the room number, and a record of the incident, for the ghost-hunters out there,  if anybody's curious.

Play dem "Bones"

"Clark Edison" on Bones is played by Eugene Byrd, the angry young gun-slinger who ends up shot by Lance Henriksen in Dead Man.

That's four steps for us to Bones: Makah tribe, Eugene Byrd ("Clark Edison"), Bones.

And four steps to Al Pacino:  Makah tribe, Eugene Byrd, Lance Henriksen, Al Pacino (in Dog Day Afternoon) and Charles Durnning.

Five steps to the Coen brothers.

(But Dan's got that one at two steps because he used to help the teenaged "Clooney boy" load tomatoes into his aunt Rosemary's "big ol' pink Cadillac Coupe de Ville.  And it was pink.)