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

Silly Picture to Fill Space- Big Southern Breakfast

For those of you who have the fortune or misfortune (well, those radical street preachers are a bit annoying) to live in the South like me, there is nothing like a Big Southern Breakfast. In fact, I understand there is a restaurant devouted to just that cuisine alone in Boulder, Colo.- of all places!

While researching this piece on the web, I came across a place where I will have to dine even if I have the chance to get back to the ultra-hip college town of Athens, Ga., which also happens to be the home of Eat At Mama's Boy Restaurant.

The establishment is located at 197 Oak Street (phone: 706-548-6249). and they feature the Mill Town Breakfast Plate for $6.95, which includes two eggs, cheese grits, a thick slice of bacon and a buttermilk biscuit. Mama's Boy also offers Georgia Peach French Toast?!

Mama's Boy was voted the best place to have breakfast in town by "The Athens Banner-Herald." Kids can eat free there on Sunday nights.

Movies of Our Youth (1 of 11)

"The Breakfast Club."

I couldn't resist!