So I thought this might be a fun game.  Hopefully you're all familiar with Six Degree of Kevin Bacon.  This is basically like that, but starting from yourself.

So each person will give their six degrees to the previous celebrity/politician/whatever and then pose another famous person for the next person to link to.

Rules:

1.  The person must be famous.  Now it can be a status of cult fame, but they should at the very least have their own wikipedia entry.
2.  While the person need not be living, they can't have been dead for more than, say, 50 years.  I mean it's great if you want to link back through your great-great-great-great-...-grandfather, but at that point the links become somewhat tenuous.
3.  To be linked to someone you need to have met them and at least had a one word conversation back and forth.  Seeing Kevin Federline at a bar, or worse in concert, doesn't qualify as a link in a bridge to Britney.  Going to an autograph signing and getting his autograph (assuming you asked for it and he said something back) does.
4.  Linking famous people doesn't need to be through movies (though movies and tv still count), but you do need to have proof of their meeting.  The fact that two of them attended the same movie premier doesn't count.  Them both attending the same G8 summit meeting does (most likely).  Having them acknowledge talking to someone ro knowing them during a press conference does count.
5.  Finally... no linking through other forumites.  I know Z met the Wesley twins from the Harry Potter movie, but I can't use that as a link between me and Daniel Radcliffe.

Make sense?

Let's start with someone topical:  Tina Fey

Hokay.....  Chuck Norris.

1. Chuck Norris.  Chuck Norris was in Walker: Texas Ranger, duh.  But Walker was used by Conan O'Brien a LOT for the "Walker Lever" sketch since like '04.  Now, that got big enough that Norris showed up on O'Brien's show.

2. In October '96, the Rockefeller Studios caught fire, leading to Conan doing an episode outside.  One of the guests that day was Samuel L. Jackson.

3.  Now, as we all know, Sam Jackson has done quite a few movies with a Mr. Quentin Tarantino.

4. Who directed and had a small role in Death Proof, which starred Kurt Russell.

5. Now, here's the non-movie thing.  My mom was training to be a nurse in the mid 90s, though that never really came to fruition, she did pull some interning for a doctor in a San Bernadino clinic.  One of the regulars to that clinic was Kurt Russell.

6. And well, she's my mom.

Next: Chuck Palahniuk.

1.  John Warner wins the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring and has dinner at the white house with president Bush.

2.  I used to work for John Warner when I first came out here.


Next:  Bruce Campbell

1.  Wierd Al once played a concert in my home town where Scott Erdman worked as security for the back entrance where Al entered and left from.

2.  Scott Erdman is my cousin.

Next:

John Cusack (who I SWEAR looks exactly like S*S's icon)

1. Sarah Silverman was a guest star on Star Trek: Voyager.

2. Andy Dick was a guest star on Star Trek: Voyager

3. When I was 7 I took an improv comedy class from a struggling actor in LA named Andy Dick just before he landed his first gig.

Next: Steve Buscemi

1. Sarah Palin is the running mate of John McCain.
2. My living great-uncle met John McCain at a ceremony for NVA POWs in the 1970s, because he and McCain both spent time in POW camps.

Too easy.

Jennifer Steele - the porn actress.


 

1.  Ty Murray was on Fast Cars & Super Stars w/ John "Spider" Sally

2.  Sally used to play on the Detroit Pistons with Isiah Thomas

3.  Isiah Thomas was the uncle of a student in the Holt school system.

4.  I was friends with this student.

Let's go back in time a little.

Next:  Martin Luther King, Jr.

1.  Robert Bakker was involved with Steven Spielberg in the filming of Jurassic Park.

2.  Steven Spielberg was involved with Michael Crichton in the same movie.

3.  Michael Crichton has attended many cons with Larry Niven.

4.  Larry Niven used to come come to the annual MIT Science Fiction Society picnics regularly with his wife "Fuzzy Pink" who he met through us.

5.  I know at least two other keyholders who were around back then.

EDIT:  Oops, how about (looks at book shelf) Hernando de Soto next.

I have this one:  1] Kevin Bacon co-starred in Animal House with John Belushi.

2] Belushi and Bill Murray were castmates on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970's.

3]  Bill Murray's first starring role was in Meatballs, which featured Keith Knight.

4]  Keith Knight and I were friends since he was a minor niner back at Sault Collegiate in 1969.

My turn:  Nicholas Cage

The Dalai Lama had tea with my husband's aunt Bronna, with whom I lived for a year.

Paul McCartney