Modified "Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon" minus Kevin Bacon

Don't get me wrong, I think Kevin Bacon is great. But if you'll notice, the huge influx of newer and younger actors is making it a little more difficult for our wonderful Mr. Bacon to keep up with his own game. I'll admit being in Beauty Shop was a brilliant move to open up a few more connections. Unfortunately Queen Latifah and Alicia Silverstone can take us only so far.

Tell you what. For the time being, I'll lend the general public my game. A while ago I was watching Law & Order: SVU and wanted to look up Mariska Hargitay. I think I wanted to show my boyfriend that she was expecting a baby with her husband or something to that effect. He was at the computer on imdb.com and he went to put in her name, but I stopped him for a second. I thought if it was me, I would totally butcher her name in the search box. (For the purpose of this post, I checked three times to make sure I got it right.) So rather than put in some gibberish resembling her name, I would see if I could find a path to her using something on the home page.

And that's what I did. I stretched my mind to think what has she been in and what can I connect it to? She has a small list so I worked backwards. My best bet was using Leaving Las Vegas and Nicholas Cage (yes, she was in that and she's credited as 'Hooker at Bar'). This was about the time Batman Begins had come out on DVD and so it all came to me. Click on Batman Begins and find Michael Caine. Click on Michael Caine and find The Weather Man. Click on The Weather Man and find Nicholas Cage. Click on Nicholas Cage and find Leaving Las Vegas. Click on Leaving Las Vegas and click on the cast list to find Mariska Hargitay.

Now would it have been easier to attempt to spell her name? Well, yeah, but now I have a fun game to play. (Ironically, today imdb has Mariska Hargitay on their home page because it's her birthday.)

So now there's this modified Six Degrees game we all can play. Hopefully this will tide us over until Mr. Bacon puts on hold being in these serious independent movies, throw us a bone, and star in some "uproarious" comedy with Frankie Muniz and the Olsen twins. (***Disclaimer: The author of this post has the utmost respect for Mr. Kevin Bacon and does not in any way feel he should attempt movie industry suicide by making a movie as described in the above text to make the Six Degrees game easier. For the love of God please read the sarcasm between the lines. Let's have more Mystic Rivers and less New York Minutes. I would be happy if there remains no simple links between Mr. Bacon and the young people in the cast of The O.C. (Don't call it that). Though if there would ever be one, it would be with Peter Gallagher already.

Now just for fun's sake, I want to play Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon with me. Now this is a little difficult for me considering that I lack the appropriate film credits typically necessary to be used in this game. Therefore, I shall cheat and you will accept that.

Okay, I found out last weekend that my brother-in-law's brother, or if you prefer my sister's brother-in-law (essentially no legal relation to me, but best man at the wedding in which I was the maid of honor) happens to be dating Paris Hilton's cousin. Now which cousin, I have no clue. But I got to hear about how he spent New Years at Paris Hilton's party in Las Vegas. And he was there again to watch the Steelers-Colts game. He's partying hard with the professionals. The point is that's my cheat.

Me to my brother-in-law (Legal relation)
My brother-in-law to his brother (Blood relation-brothers)
His brother to ______Hilton (Couple, boy toy, haven't figured it out yet)
______ Hilton to Paris Hilton (Blood relation-cousins)
Paris Hilton to Christian Slater (Zoolander)
Christian Slater to Kevin Bacon (Murder in the First)