Quantifying 'The Kevin Bacon Game': A Statistical Exploration of Hollywood’s Most Connected Actors
Examining 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' and its statistical underpinnings.
Intro: Kevin Bacon, Nucleus of Hollywood
How did Kevin Bacon become a folk hero for movie nerds? Well, the strange saga of Bacon's cult status begins with an innocuous quote in an unremarkable magazine article.
In a Premiere interview from January 1994, Kevin Bacon mentioned that he had "worked with everybody i…
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