Conference bookie::movies

    
    If you liked "He Said, She Said," you'll also like him in "She's Having
    A Baby."
    
    He was also good in "Diner," although another smaller role.
    
    - Sean

    
    
    I thought he was likeable as Jimmy Dolan in "The Air Up There".  He
    played a real nut case in a white water rafting movie who's name
    escapes me right now.
    
    I don't know what it is about him but I like to watch him.  I thought
    it was funny when he gave Steve Martin a run for his money in catching
    a cab in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
    
    I wonder what it is about him?
    
    
    

    
    "He Said, She Said" was a moderately funny film.
    Unfortunately, I can set my watch to the times
    that some of the movie channels show this one.
    
    Wasn't he the cop who gets trampled on in the finale
    of "Animal House"??
    
    Kev --
    

    
    	RE: Sean
    
    	YES!!  Thank you.  I was going to mention that one too but I
    	forgot about it.  That one had the usual Kevin Bacon flash-
    	backs and daydreams also.
    
    							GTI

    Back when _A Few Good Men_ came out, I read something about "here's one
    of the leading-men pack who's decided to concentrate on being a
    character actor, and he's good at it."
    
    I don't think he has a lot of star power, so concentrating on secondary
    roles seems right for him.  He has a dependable kind of screen
    presence; he doesn't set the screen on fire, but it's nice to see him.

I used to watch him years ago in "The Guiding Light" - played a teenage 
alcoholic.

I pretty sure he was in JFK too, but can't remember the part right now.  

His wife is Kyra Sedgewick (from "Singles")

      
    In JFK, he was the prostitute that Kevin Costner approached in prison,
    to glean information about the Joe Pesci and Tommy Lee Jones
    characters.
    
    All three of 'em certainly were playing roles a bit different from what
    we expect to see them in.  I liked the movie just for Tommy Lee's white
    hair and Joe Pesci's weird eyebrows.  :)
    
    
    kim

    

    Hi!  I'm new to the conference so you may not know me, but here's my
    two cents...
    
    I like Kevin Bacon...he's reliable for what he is and has never made me
    cringe.  Also, ol' Kev made a "small" film (and this is going to be 
    very vague) about a film student who sets out trying to make the movie of 
    his dreams and gets trapped in the Hollywood nightmare.  Great little 
    movie, VERY accurate depiction of the Hollywood game, GREAT supporting 
    cast...
    
    Can anyone think of the name...
    
    Mary Jo 
  

    
    	Yup, that was "The Big Picture", with:
    
    	Jennifer Jason Leigh
    	Fran Drescher
    	Teri Hatcher
    	Martin Short
    	Michael McKean
    	
    	etc.
    
    							GTI
    

    He also made a movie about a stockbrocker who had a real bad day and
    lost all his money. He than became a Bicycle delivery boy and had a run
    in with a drug dealer. THat movie is calle Quicksilver.
    	The movie where he was a psycho white water guide was something
    like white water summer,or something.  Coinsidently he will be riding
    the rapids in a new movie, but I'm not sure of the title.
    	
    In ANIMAL HOUSE he was in ROTC.
    
    He has also done a movie where he an Kyra Sedgewick have an interesting
    relationship.
    

    He was also in Footloose

    Re: .10
    
    >He has also done a movie where he an Kyra Sedgewick have an interesting
    >relationship.
    
    _Pyrates_, available at your video store.

    
    	RE: .11/.12
    
    	You know, I mentioned both those movies in the base note.
    
    	Please try to follow along.  8^)
    
    							GTI

    One interesting film (which no-one in the world saw) was "Enormous
    Changes at the Last Minute", which was based on three or four stories
    by the non-prolific short story writer Grace Paley.
    
    Bacon played a young guy in a serious relationship with an older woman 
    in one of the stories.  The film also featured Ellen Barkin (back before
    she was recast by Hollywood as "sex goddess") in a very good role in
    another story.
    
    The film played briefly theatrically around 1985.  I have no idea
    whether it is available on videotape.
    
    - Dave

    Wasn't he also in Flatfliners?

    does he have a small part in pulp fiction as well ?

    RE: .16
    
    Yes he was also in Flatliners.  I liked his storyline the best.
    
    

    Quite a career once you sit down and think about it...
    
    MJ

    
    	Speaking of "quite a career", Keifer Sutherland has been in 26
    	movies, and he's only 27 years old [he's about 6 months younger
    	than I am!!].
    
    							GTI

For those who don't follow USENET, there was a thread there a while ago
(I think it was inspired by some MTV talk show) about how most actors/actresses
could be linked to Kevin Bacon through a small number of films; of course, the
reality is that virtually *all* actors/actresses can be so linked, and the
choice of Bacon is arbitrary (in fact, people like Michael Caine and Gene
Hackman give shorter paths in most cases).  But you still occasionally see
a reference to "Bacon number" there.

In any case, here's the inevitable filmography; answers to many of the
questions posed earlier can be found in a careful study of this:

Name:  Bacon, Kevin
Birth Date:  8 July 1958, Philadelphia PA
Married:  'Kyra Sedgwick' (qv) (?-present) 
Filmography as Actor:
  "Search for Tomorrow" (1951) [program date, not his appearance]
  "Guiding Light, The" (1952)
  National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)  [Chip Diller]
  Starting Over (1979)  [Husband (Young Couple)]
  Gift, The (1979) (TV)
  Friday the 13th (1980)
  Hero At Large (1980)
  Only When I Laugh (1981)  [Don]
  Diner (1982)  [Fenwick]
  Forty Deuce (1982)
  Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)  [Dennis]    (aka Trumps)
  Demon Murder Case, The (1983) (TV)    (aka Rhode Island Murders, The (TV))
  Footloose (1984)  [Ren MacCormack]
  Quicksilver (1986)  [Jack Casey]
  Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)  [Taxi racer]
  End of the Line (1987)
  Lemon Sky (1987) (TV)  [Alan]
  White Water Summer (1987)  [Vic]    (aka Rites of Summer, The)
  She's Having a Baby (1988)  [Jake Briggs]
  Big Picture, The (1989)  [Nick Chapman]
  Criminal Law (1989)
  Tremors (1990)  [Valentine McKee]
  Flatliners (1990)  [Labraccio]
  He Said, She Said (1991)  [Dan Hanson]
  Pyrates (1991)  [Ari]
  Queens Logic (1991)  [Dennis]
  JFK (1991)  [Willie O'Keefe]
  Few Good Men, A (1992)  [Capt. Ross]
  Air Up There, The (1994)  [Jimmy Dolan]
  Murder in the First (1994) {I don't have a release schedule for this, sorry}
  River Wild, The (1994) {scheduled for release Sept. 30}

    
    White Water Summer.   Ugh.  Can't win 'em all....
    

    There was an interesting article in the Boston Globe yesterday
    (04AUG96) about a game that some guys invented called (tenatively)
    Makin' Bacon, or something like that.  The thing they seem to
    discovered is that EVERYONE who has made a movie in the last n (10?)
    years is no more than four degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.  In
    other words, if they made a movie with him, that's ONE degree of
    separation, if they made a movie with someone who made a movie with
    him, that's TWO, etc.  I don't have a scanner, but maybe someone who
    has one could capture the article for the conference.  
    
    	/jeff

    
    	If you consider how many big names appeared in "The Big Picture",
    	I guess it's not surprising.
    
    	I have a "RockNet" map that links bands together [this was made
    	by me [for the most part], manually, so is in no way automated]
    	by common performers, and I think it'd be interesting to try a
    	"StarNet" for movies ... but it'd be ALOT of work, since the
    	cast list for the typical movie is 10x as big as the player list
    	for a typical band [except for Earth, Wind and Fire 8^)].
    

>    I don't have a scanner, but maybe someone who
>    has one could capture the article for the conference.  

If you have Web access, you don't need no stinkin' scanner. :-)  You can
search 7 days' worth of Boston Globe articles from their Web site at
www.globe.com.  HOWEVER, their search engine leaves a bit to be desired...
(it can be a challenge to turn up the article you're looking for).  I just
tried various permutations of searching on "Kevin Bacon" and came up empty.
If you have the article handy when you're searching you can search for a
specific phrase and might have better luck...

-- Nina

    
    By the way, the biggest Bacon Number charted is 7 (7 links between
    Bacon and whatever actor)...  99% of actors performing over the
    past 15 years are <= 4.
    
    Like the inventors say "Kevin Bacon is the center of the universe!"
    
    - Sean