Tim Topper was the choreographer for our drama productions when i was in high school...He was an extra in the movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" with Burt Reynolds....Burt and Demi in "Striptease"....Demi and Kevin in "A Few Good Men"

So I guess that is 4 degrees?

I met Sean Penn at a dinner party when he was filming "Milk" here in the City. Mr. Penn was in "Mystic River" with Mr. Bacon so that would be one degree of separation.

You're right. Sorry honeychile -- not sure how I did that or why I didn't notice.

Michael Keaton was in The Paper with Clint Howard who was in My Dog Skip with Kevin Bacon.

Or, if you prefer, Michael Keaton was in Mr. Mom with Edie McClurg, who was in Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Kevin Bacon.

;)

Thanks, MC. Mrs. Douglas (Michael Keaton's mother) was such a gracious lady - when someone gushed, "You have such a wonderful son!", she responded, "Dear, I have nine wonderful children." Michael paid for her care, and we always referred to the payment as "The BatCheck". (You probably had to be there)

I'm pretty sure that the game was based on an interview in which he had said he's worked with everyone in Hollywood or someone mutual (so...two degrees).

I don't know the rest of the story, but I remember hearing about it in the late nineties at work.

The Wiki on Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The article includes a reference to Bacon's charity website SixDegrees.org. It also includes this bit from Will and Grace, when Bacon appeared as himself:

Will: You — you did a movie with Val Kilmer?
Kevin: No, but Val was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise, and Tom was in A Few Good Men with me. Huh, that was a short one.

"Kevin Bacon is the Center of the Universe"

:D I remember that! They danced to "Footloose" in that episode. Very funny.

I interned for a California congressman, who obviously works with the Governator, who was in Red Heat with Laurence Fishburn, who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon. That's four!