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Fri Sep 14, 2012, 05:21 PM Sep 2012

Google has a new Easter Egg... the "bacon number"


By Patrick Kevin Day
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-six-degress-of-kevin-bacon-google-bacon-number-20120914,0,2094415.story
September 14, 2012, 1:38 p.m.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was a short-lived fad from the late 1990s which sprang from the notion that anyone in Hollywood was no more than six steps removed from sharing a credit with actor Kevin Bacon. The creators of the game, college buddies Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli, had their moment of fame, promoted the game and it thrived for a bit before fading into obscurity.

Until now.

Just as Bacon is set to reinvent himself as a TV star in Fox's upcoming thriller series "The Following," the game that bears his name has been reinvented by Google as a fun little Easter egg on its search pages.

The way you find it is simple. Type "bacon number" (no quotes) into Google's search bar, followed by the name of an actor or actress. The results will give you that performer's Bacon Number. (Bill Murray's Bacon Number, for instance, is 1 since he appeared with Bacon in "Wild Things." Angus Scrimm has a Bacon Number of 2 since the Tall Man appeared with Howard Hesseman in "Munchie Strikes Back," who appeared with Bacon in "Mister Roberts.&quot Bacon's filmography is so extensive and varied and he's appeared in so many ensemble films that his name connections in Hollywood are easy to identify. On Thursday, Bacon himself tweeted his own Bacon Number, writing "What am I ... zero!" Followed shortly thereafter with "I guess in my heart of hearts I kinda knew I was a ZERO."

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