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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 13:06:27
MY BIRTHDAY TREAT FOR YOU!
On Friday I'll be a year older, and I'll be feeling very generous to you all. So if you feel like playing this ego-trip game, I'll be handing out votes.
This year's game is: SIX DEGREES OF BAFTA/BACON
and the object is to trace my onscreen connection to Kevin Bacon. I will provide a start film and an end film and you just have to research the connections. If you post your connections and they are correct connections, you can then post links to two pages of your choice for me to vote on. This is the way I vote: I go through each row on a page and pick the review I think is top. So that means a potential 20 votes per question. I think. My math is crap!
NB - the connections are usually actors ... but not always!
1. Animal House to MouseyWON BY SALOPIAN
2. Starting Over to FutzWON BY LEMMYCAUTION VOTED!
3. The Gift to Futz WON BY SALOPIAN
4. Diner to Reds WON BY SALOPIAN
5. Footloose to Love & Death WON BY BEANMIMO VOTED!
6. White Water Summer to Unusual Ground Floor Conversion WON BY DEMONIC VOTED!
7. JFK to The Great Gatsby WON BY SALOPIAN
8. Mystic River to Reds WON BY SALOPIAN VOTED!
And two bonus questions because they involve theatre so will take much more research!
BONUS
9. The Big Picture to Privates on Parade WON BY MM0rkeleb VOTED!
BONUS WON BY DEMONIC VOTED!
10. Flatliners to Steel Magnolias WON BY MM0rkeleb VOTED!
Have fun!
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| demonic |
Posted - 05/30/2008 : 18:46:44
Yes Ma'am!
My first two links are somewhere on the second page - here are my bonus-ey ones.
First 100 lowest voted, unvoted by you
Second 100 lowest voted, unvoted by you |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/30/2008 : 12:32:03
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
Ooh. What do I get for my bonus? Surely not another two pages?
You have one more day to post your bonus links ... you have been warned!!!!
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| demonic |
Posted - 05/26/2008 : 16:26:24
Ooh. What do I get for my bonus? Surely not another two pages? |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/25/2008 : 23:14:06
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
I shall attempt to steal that bonus by guessing "Blue Bitch".
Woof Woof! 
Post your page links and a bonus will be yours! 
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| demonic |
Posted - 05/25/2008 : 23:03:22
I shall attempt to steal that bonus by guessing "Blue Bitch". |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/24/2008 : 18:25:06
quote:
Originally posted by MM0rkeleb
I get it now ... since you weren't in the film Privates on Parade, I initially assumed you were in some stage production and that's what I had to link to (hence my roundaboutness).
Now that I've got the gist of it, let me try to finish Demonic's attempt on #9:
Kevin Bacon <Flatliners> Julia Roberts <Steel Magnolias> Sam Shephard <Melodrama Play> Beth Porter
And my pages:
Page 1
Page 2
Perfecto! Will vote onya soonas!
PS if you want extra bonus - try to discover the UK television play of his I starred in ... in the days when they still did live telly over here!! No it was NOT run by steam you cheeky monkey 
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| MM0rkeleb |
Posted - 05/24/2008 : 17:12:58
I get it now ... since you weren't in the film Privates on Parade, I initially assumed you were in some stage production and that's what I had to link to (hence my roundaboutness).
Now that I've got the gist of it, let me try to finish Demonic's attempt on #9:
Kevin Bacon <Flatliners> Julia Roberts <Steel Magnolias> Sam Shephard <Melodrama Play> Beth Porter
And my pages:
Page 1
Page 2
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/24/2008 : 08:33:49
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
But how's about this...
Kevin Bacon <Flatliners> Julia Roberts <Steel Magnolias> Robert Harling <Steel Magnolias> Beth Porter...
What do you think? 
Hiya
Starts out good then goes off rails and doesn't connect me with anything, since my connection with Steel Mag is someone who's in it with whom I'm linked by theatre stuff - actually - and here's a hint - also by a tv thing, too.
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/24/2008 : 08:27:49
quote:
Originally posted by MM0rkeleb
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
NB Demonic ... you're definitely on the right track with Peter Nichols. If you tweak the web hard enough it will reveal to you my theatrical connection with him
Assuming this was for me ...
so my googling did in fact uncover a theatre link between you and Mr. Nichols, but it didn't involve Privates on Parade (instead, it involved Chez Nous). I thought PoP had to be on the other end of a chain starting with The Big Picture.
I'm confuzled.
Hi MM0rky
Sorry to be so late getting back to you - and more for confuzling you with demonic 
The PoP confuzling comes because in my original post I said:
"the object is to trace my onscreen connection to Kevin Bacon."
But with the Bonus questions I didn't make it clear at all that the final film would lead to a stage play which connects me to the final film in the list. My bad!
But - you clever old MM0rkeLeb - you got it anyway!!! albeit by a slightly longer route. But post your two pages and votes will be yours soon as I can.
BTW
Here's the short way to the answer:
Kevin Bacon > The Big Picture > John Cleese > Privates on Parade > Peter Nichols > Chez Nous > ME
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| MM0rkeleb |
Posted - 05/24/2008 : 02:43:28
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
NB Demonic ... you're definitely on the right track with Peter Nichols. If you tweak the web hard enough it will reveal to you my theatrical connection with him
Assuming this was for me ...
so my googling did in fact uncover a theatre link between you and Mr. Nichols, but it didn't involve Privates on Parade (instead, it involved Chez Nous). I thought PoP had to be on the other end of a chain starting with The Big Picture.
I'm confuzled.
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| Salopian |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 02:35:37
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Not really ... the films are the ones I've pre-chosen. If you'd like to research some others, go right ahead, but I'm handing out votes for my 10.
Quite, so they only mean anything if one has to go via your and Bacon's co-stars in those films. If one can immediately change to another of Bacon's (or your) films, as demonic and I initially did, then any film of his(/yours) can be specified on the end without making any difference.
Anyway, it was fun. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 01:57:42
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
B.B., wouldn't you rather just vote on whoever comes up with the shortest one? I've already given one minimal one, so that could account for my votes. )
Well, shorter is snappier! But as I can't feed you all birthday cake, I can slice off votes in your collective directions
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 01:55:52
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
[quote]Originally posted by BaftaBabe
If one can start with any Kevin Bacon film, then one can presumably end with any Beth Porter film, and all the answers are the same except for tacking the specified films on either end. Just sayin'.
Not really ... the films are the ones I've pre-chosen. If you'd like to research some others, go right ahead, but I'm handing out votes for my 10.
And don't forget the two bonus questions need a stage play to finish them off properly ... i.e. I'm not personally connected either to Privates on Parade or Steel Magnolias, but I am connected [in a theatrical context]to people connected with those films.
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| Salopian |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 00:43:00
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
But Birthday girl has spoken... and you're rolling in potential vote gain already...
Yup, to be honest, I don't mind if I don't get any more votes from this. I am sure that BirthdayBabe has already seen most of my reviews and I don't want her to feel obliged to vote for ones she doesn't like. (That said, I answered that one before you anyway. B.B., wouldn't you rather just vote on whoever comes up with the shortest one? I've already given one minimal one, so that could account for my votes. ) |
| demonic |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 00:40:11
Okey dokey... in four....
Kevin Bacon <White Water Summer> Caroline McWilliams <Mermaids> Winona Ryder <A Scanner Darkly> Robert Downey Jnr <Richard III> Adrian Dunbar <Unusual Ground Floor Conversion> Beth Porter.
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