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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon is an game where you start with any actor or actress and try to link them to the actor Kevin Bacon through the movies they have both been in. For example, if you start with Tom Hanks, you could link him to Kevin Bacon through the movie Apollo 13, where they both starred. The game is called "Six Degrees" because it is said that any two people on Earth are connected by a chain of no more than six people. So, the idea of this game is that you can link any actor to Kevin Bacon using six connections or fewer.
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