Six degrees of Kevin Bacon! LyingBrian wins!

[Sailor Jerry]

Six degrees - it works like this:

The names of two actors are posted in the thread. The aim is to link them together, using a chain of films in which they have appeared. For example:

1)

Tom Hanks - Sally Field

:

• They appeared together in Forrest Gump. That's
  one
  degree of separation.

2)

Tom Hanks - Lucy Liu

:

• Tom Hanks appeared in Forrest Gump with Sally Field.
  Sally Field appeared in Steel Magnolias with Daryl Hannah.
  Daryl Hannah appeared in Kill Bill with Lucy Liu.

That's

three

degrees of separation.

SCORING:

• Whoever links the two actors together first (in six degrees or fewer) scores a point and names the next actor in the chain.
  
  Anyone whose link connects their actors via Kevin Bacon gets a bonus point!
  
  Anyone who can improve on a previous link at a later time (by finding a shorter link - or an equal-length one that includes Bacon) can also have a bonus point.

OK. You've seen

Tom Hanks - Lucy Liu

. Continue the chain with:

Lucy Liu - Arnold Schwartzenegger

SCORES (as at Post 86):

LyingBrian - 13
BrizzyBoi - 10
Sailor Jerry - 8
Davidangelsummers - 6
Joshua - 4
STD - 3
Scalebane - 2
Sherlock - 2
PlaysWithSquirrels - 2
AniX - 1
Primate - 1
inhimshallibe - 1

[Sherlock]

EDIT

[Sherlock]

Lucy Liu was in Kill Bill with
Uma Thurman who was in Batman & Robin with
Arnold Schwarzenneger.
Sherlock-1
Arnold Schwarzenner - Gene Wilder

[Scalebane]

Gene wilder was in Young Frankenstein with
Peter Boyle who was in Walker with
Ed Harris who was in Apollo 13 with
Kevin Bacon who was in Where the Truth Lies with
Maury Chaykin who was in Twins with
Arnold Schwarzy.

6 degrees and Kevin Bacon.

Scalebane - 2
Sherlock - 1

Next task:
Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Connelly

[Sailor Jerry]

I'll grab a bonus point with:

Arnie - Danny DeVito (Junior)
DeVito - Kevin Spacey (LA Confidential)
Spacey - Gene Wilder (See No Evil, Hear No Evil)

Scalebane - 2
Sherlock - 1
filibuster - 1

And... two new actors? What about the chain?

[Sailor Jerry]

Especially since Hugh Jackman to Jennifer Connelly is so horrifically easy...

Hugh Jackman-David Bowie (The Prestige)
David Bowie-Jennifer Connelly (Labyrinth)

Scalebane - 2
Sherlock - 1
filibuster - 2

Jennifer Connelly - Joan Collins

[STD]

bah @ joan collins...

they have a bacon number of 2 though at least.

[STD]

Jennifer Connelly was in Blood Diamond with Djimon Honsou
Djimon Honsou was in Beauty Shop with Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon Mystic River with Eli Wallach
Joan Collins was in Seven Thieves with Eli Wallach

Joan Collins --> Howard Stern

[STD]

I'll grab a bonus point with:

Arnie - Danny DeVito (Junior)
DeVito - Kevin Spacey (LA Confidential)
Spacey - Gene Wilder (See No Evil, Hear No Evil)

Scalebane - 2
Sherlock - 1
filibuster - 1

And... two new actors? What about the chain?

BLASPHEMY!!!!

that should read Arnie - DeVito (Twins)

[Sailor Jerry]

Heh... because Twins was such an amazing movie

[Sailor Jerry]

AND...

Joan Collins-Lord Richard Attenborough (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Dickie-Mary McCormack (Miracle on 34th Street)
McCormack-Stern (Private Parts).

If anyone beats that - I'll eat my dinkle.

Howard Stern - Christian Slater

[Sherlock]

Howard Stern was in Private Parts with
Paul Giamatti who was in Lady in the Water with
M. Night Shyamalan who was in Unbreakable with (he's in all of his movies)
Samuel L. Jackson who was in True Romance with
Christian Slater.
Sherlock-2
Christian Slater - Ian Mckellan

[BrizzyBoi]

Christian Slater in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman in Die Hard with Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis in Sin City with Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood in LOTR with Ian McKellan

Ian McKellan to Eddie Murphy

[STD]

Christian Slater was in Murder in the First with
Kevin Bacon who was in Where the Truth Lies with
Gabrielle Rose who was in Eighteen with
Ian Mckellen

[Sailor Jerry]

Sir Ian McKellan - Patrick Stewart (X-Men)
Patrick Stewart - Malcolm McDowell (Star Trek: Generations)
Malcolm McDowell - Eddie Murphy (I-Spy)

Eddie Murphy - Cillian Murphy

[BrizzyBoi]

Eddie Murphy was in Shrek with Mike Myers
Mike Myers was in Austin Powers: Goldmember with Michael Caine
Michael Caine was in Batman Begins with Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy - Matt Le Blanc

[Thestatusquo]

This is derived from a dilbert strip.

[STD]

Is Scott Adams actually Hungarian writer Karinthy Frigyes?

[Sailor Jerry]

This is derived from a dilbert strip.

You're guessing :)

The game

was devised by three college students, Mike Ginelli, Craig Fass, and Brian Turtle in 1994. (Ginelli and Turtle later appeared as two members of the team "Peanut Butter and Ginelli" on 2006's VH1 World Series of Pop Culture.)

Six degrees of separation

is the hypothesis that anyone on Earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries.

The hypothesis was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Karinthy Frigyes in a short story called Chains. The concept is based on the idea that the number of acquaintances grows exponentially with the number of links in the chain, and so only a small number of links is required for the set of acquaintances to become the whole human population.

[PlaysWithSquirrels]

Ooh ooh I wanna play.

Cilian Murphy was in Cold Mountain with Nicole Kidman.
Nicole Kidman was in The Interpreter with Sean Penn.
Sean Penn was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon.
Kevin Bacon was in My Dog Skip with Luke Wilson.
Luke Wilson was in Committed with Heather Graham.
Heather Graham was in Lost in Space with Matt Leblanc.

Jesus fucking Christ that was hard.

New goal: Matt Le Blanc to David Cross
*shudder*

[Sailor Jerry]

Or...

Cillian Murphy - Scarlett Johansson (Girl With a Pearl Earring)
Johannson - Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)
Murray - Matt Le Blanc (Charlie's Angels)

[PlaysWithSquirrels]

What fun is it if you don't go for it all?

[PlaysWithSquirrels]

That one I suggested was easier than I thought X(.

[BrizzyBoi]

New goal: Matt Le Blanc to David Cross
*shudder*

Matt Le Blanc in "Charlies Angels" with Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu in "Kill Bill" with Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman in "Truth About Cats and Dogs" with David Cross

David Cross to Arnold Schwarzenegger

[AniX]

Please, this is easier than knowing who I love most of all.

David Cross' voice was in the movie Doctor Doolittle 2 with Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice.

Arnold Schwarzenegger to Gillian "Scully" Anderson