The Oracle of Bacon, one of my long-time favorite sites.
The object of the game is simple: find the shortest route, via movies, from any actor to Kevin Bacon using other actors who were fellow cast mates in a particular movie, creating a chain of mutual movies. For example, just the other day I saw a movie with the lovely actress Teri Polo in it. I entered her name (spelling it wrong, but the site will offer up choices of actors if there's any doubt) and found that there were only two movies and one mutual fellow cast mate between Polo and Bacon:
The object of the game is simple: find the shortest route, via movies, from any actor to Kevin Bacon using other actors who were fellow cast mates in a particular movie, creating a chain of mutual movies. For example, just the other day I saw a movie with the lovely actress Teri Polo in it. I entered her name (spelling it wrong, but the site will offer up choices of actors if there's any doubt) and found that there were only two movies and one mutual fellow cast mate between Polo and Bacon:
The site uses the database of another of my favorite sites, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) The results are cached on their server, so any new queries will appear quickly. There's also a couple of other interesting features of the site, finding out the "Center of the Hollywood Universe" ranking of a particular actor as well as a useful one, finding actors with a certain letter of their last name. (one of those "tip of the tongue" tools)
For you baseball fans, there's also an Oracle of Baseball which will link baseball players in the same manner as the Bacon Oracle, only using teams and mutual teammates.
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