How did the “Six Degrees of Separation” come to be linked to Kevin Bacon?
singwell-is off researching a lot Sep 30th, 2008 According to Wikipedia: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon first surfaced at about the same time.[citation needed] On April 7 1994, a lengthy newsgroup thread headed “Kevin Bacon is the Center of the Universe” [1] appeared. The game was created in early 1994 by three students at Albright College, Craig Fass, Brian Turtle, and Mike Ginelli. According to an interview with the three in the Spring 1999 issue of the college’s magazine, The Albright Reporter, they were watching Footloose during a heavy snowstorm. When the film was followed by Quicksilver, they began to speculate on how many movies Bacon had been in and the number of people he had worked with. In the interview, Brian Turtle said, “It became one of our stupid party tricks, I guess. People would throw names at us and we’d connect them to Kevin Bacon.” The trio wrote talk show host Jon Stewart a letter telling him that “Kevin Bacon was the center of the entertainment universe” and explain
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