For the intellectual challenge of figuring out how the more glamorous are
connected to each other, there’s always http://www.lake.org/sixdgre2.htm. Every
week two unlikely movie stars are posted and it’s up to you to link them up
through their films. A popular variation of this game is called “Six Degrees of
Kevin Bacon”, the idea being that you can join any film star to the ubiquitous
actor Kevin Bacon in, at most, six steps. For the rules and the history see
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sasalm/sdokb.
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