Here's yet another in my blogs about "brushes with greatness".
I have always loved to play the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game. My personal favorite moment was when I realized I'm THREE degrees from Kevin Bacon.
The connection is as follows:
I screen tested for a movie called "Come See the Paradise" (for those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend it) starring Dennis Quaid (I actually got a callback but the message wasn't relayed in time, throw that in the "what might have been" bin).
Dennis Quaid was in "The Right Stuff" with Ed Harris, who was in "Apollo 13" with...Kevin Bacon.
Incidentally, the Quaid connection is double, as my cousin was an extra in "Breaking Away", which also starred Quaid.
signing off,
Gideon MacLeish