Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: The Stars of "9 to 5"

Tonight, we thought we'd go back to the days when we blogged about the degrees of separation given stars were from Kevin Bacon through the web site The Oracle of Bacon, devised by computer scince at the University of Virginia a decade and a half ago.

With that in mind, we focus on the three female leads for "9 to 5" (1980), which was turned into a tv sitcom and a Broadway musical. The film starred Jane Fonda (pictured top), Dolly Parton (pictured bottom) in her film debut and Lily Tomlin.

None of the women have actually been in a film with Bacon, and each of them are two degrees removed from his.

Fonda was in "Stanley and Iris" (1989) with Robert DeNiro and he was in turn in "Sleepers" (1995) with Bacon.

Parton was in "Miss Congeniality 2" which I reluctantly saw at a movie theatre in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with Stephen Tobolowsky who was in  "Murder in the First" (1995) with Bacon.

Tomlin was in the Woody Allen film "Shadows and Fog" (1991) which co-starred Peter McRobbie who was in "Sleepers" with Bacon.

Parton will be performing in Portland, Ore., on June 8th for Dolly Parton Hoot Night (we are not making this up!).

Amazingly enough, Bacon is also only two degrees removed from early film star Lillian Gish and Shirley Temple, who hasn't made films since she was a child star. But, he is a full three degrees from Mary Pickford, a star in the 1920s, and Turkish actress Turkan Soray, who is known as the queen of Turkish cinema.

http://www.oracleofbacon.org

http://www.dollyparton.com

http://www.portlandlive.com

Comic Strip Dialogue_ Even More Exclamation Points...

Happy New Year to those of you in Dubai! We thought we'd post an image of a Shirley Temple, a nonalcoholic cocktail, in your honor....and, who says that Muslims don't have a sense of humor?!!!

Here is some dialogue from the Sunday, Dec. 23rd edition of "The Washington Post;" we hope you enjoy!!!:

1) "It's a playlist!" (from "Zits")!

2) "It's adorable! I love it!" (from "Sherman's Lagoon")!

3)  "We're prisoners in the king's dungeon on Christmas Eve!" (from "Hagar the Horrible")!

4) "So, we'll see our son's wedding on a video after the fact!" (from "Judge Parker")!

5) "It's ridicilous!" (from "Big Nate")!

6) "I need a few more things!!" (from "Blondie")!

7) "Somebody needs to teach you about naughty and nice!" (from "Knight Life, a comic strip by Keith Knight")!