timster
10-02-2003, 06:35 AM
If you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, now there's only one degree of separation between you and Kevin Bacon.
The actor received the 2,238th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday in front of the Ivar/Cinespace Nightclubs, where he and his sibling have performed music as The Bacon Brothers band.
Bacon, whose films include the ensembles "Animal House," "Diner," "JFK" and the upcoming "Mystic River," also is the subject of the parlor game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," a takeoff on "Six Degrees of Separation."
The trick is to connect anyone usually an actor to Bacon in only six steps. Marlon Brando is two degrees away: Brando starred in "The Score" with Robert De Niro, and De Niro played a conflicted priest opposite Bacon as a ruthless prison guard in "Sleepers."
Bacon told the crowd on Hollywood Boulevard that he was grateful to have the support of his family, even though they didn't always understand his acting ambition.
"I had two great parents who didn't know anything about the movies, they never saw movies or went to the movies," the 45-year-old said. "They said if I wanted to be an actor, go pursue acting. I think it might be weird for my family who is here to watch their annoying little brother become a movie star. It's kind of a strange thing to deal with."
In "Mystic River," a story of revenge, violence and its aftermath directed by Clint Eastwood, Bacon plays a police detective who investigates when the teenage daughter of a childhood friend, played by Sean Penn, is murdered.
The actor received the 2,238th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday in front of the Ivar/Cinespace Nightclubs, where he and his sibling have performed music as The Bacon Brothers band.
Bacon, whose films include the ensembles "Animal House," "Diner," "JFK" and the upcoming "Mystic River," also is the subject of the parlor game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," a takeoff on "Six Degrees of Separation."
The trick is to connect anyone usually an actor to Bacon in only six steps. Marlon Brando is two degrees away: Brando starred in "The Score" with Robert De Niro, and De Niro played a conflicted priest opposite Bacon as a ruthless prison guard in "Sleepers."
Bacon told the crowd on Hollywood Boulevard that he was grateful to have the support of his family, even though they didn't always understand his acting ambition.
"I had two great parents who didn't know anything about the movies, they never saw movies or went to the movies," the 45-year-old said. "They said if I wanted to be an actor, go pursue acting. I think it might be weird for my family who is here to watch their annoying little brother become a movie star. It's kind of a strange thing to deal with."
In "Mystic River," a story of revenge, violence and its aftermath directed by Clint Eastwood, Bacon plays a police detective who investigates when the teenage daughter of a childhood friend, played by Sean Penn, is murdered.