Um, seeing as I'm out in Hollywood...well, I guess this came along at the right time. I am part of the "cast" for a docu entitled (for now) Weather Movie. (I hope they keep the title, tones of Scary Movie.) I will be playing myself. This is something I do all the time--sometimes more convincingly than others. But never before, at least to my knowledge, have I gotten into the Internet Movie Database for it.
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Back in May, we here at ScienceBlogs got an offer to get an advance screener copy of Randy Olson's new movie, "Sizzle", if we promised to review it.
How many degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon?
I had the same thought as Mike when I saw the feed, but since I was needing an excuse to procastinate, I tried some research. The Oracle of Bacon was not directly helpful, so I had to look at IMDB. I don't know what kind of participation and/or film is needed for bonna fide links, but being cavalier we get:
Chris Mooney (II)----Stephen Schneider (through Weather Movie)
Stephen Schneider----Leonardo DiCaprio (through The 11th Hour, who narrated the docu)
and the Oracle adds DiCaprio - Martin Sheen - Kevin Bacon.
That would give you a Bacon number of 4 (in fact, that's a lower bound).
If being a narrator doesn't count, then you can skip DiCaprio and use the Simpsons instead:
Chris Mooney (II) / Stephen Schneider / Stephen Hawking / Nancy Cartwright / Kevin Bacon