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[davywavy]

There's an urban myth which may or may not be true that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else within a maximum of six steps. The game Six Steps to kevin Bacon is a somewhat satirical take on this, but as a game it's often more fun to play from your own perspective. Think of someone famous and see how quickly you can get to them from people you have met.
I was thinking about this last night in the light of the 'ten years on' episode of This Life, the 'neighbours with nudity' show which was so popular with late night masturbators in the mid-1990's. I once met Amy Jenkins, creator of This Life, and she obviously knows actor Jack Davenport, who is in Pirates of the Caribbean with Jonny Depp, getting me to Depp in three steps.
From there I started to think of less obvious people. I can get to Hitler (My dad, stationed in France after the war, once went for a drink with Josephine Baker, who in turn used her fame to know a number of senior Nazi officers during the occupation, and from there it's a short step to the moustached nutter himself) and Churchill (I went to the same school as William Hague, who was an MP at the same time as Winston Churchill's grandson). George Lucas is an easy one (Both from the Star Wars premiere I went to, and also in one step from my meeting Michael Sheard) and I can even get to Audrey Hepburn pretty quickly (from Dwight Schulz to George Peppard, who starred with her in Breakfast at Tiffany's).
The question is, who can you lot get to? What wierd and wonderful steps link you to the great, good, and not-so-good?
Bonus points can be earned by quick links to:
Neil Armstrong
Eva Peron
Fidel Castro
Carlos the Jackal
William Shakespeare

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[commlal.livejournal.com]

I can get to Samuel L Jackson in two steps. I've met (and had acting lessons) from Robbie Carlyle who was in 52nd State with Mr Jackson. This also gets me to Ewan McGregor and then onto so many.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

my dad meet Buzz Aldrin who went to the moon with Neil Armstrong.

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha!!!!

More

My line manager has met the queen, who has met RedKen, who has had a meeting with Fidel Castro!!!

I WIN!!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Her Maj met Ken? I hope it was to say "Piss off out of my Palace, you horrid little oik".

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Probably :D

[sea-cucumber.livejournal.com]

I went to an astronomy/astrophysics conference at university which had lecturers from the 'International Space University' summer school who worked for NASA who looked old enough to have been working on the moon landings, but that's probably a bit vague :)

But I have met Patrick Moore, who has met Neil Armstrong, so that's much less vague :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

- I was about 500 yards away from Eva Peron's grave on Friday. (we drove past the cemetery in the bus but I didn't do the city tour the next morning)
- I would assume I could get to Neil Armstrong reasonably quickly via compilerbitch who works for NASA
- Harrison Ford in one step (Anthony Daniels and all the other Star Wars actors I met)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Wow, your dad is actually useful for something for once...

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

On a similar vein I've shaken hands with the Queens gynocologist (He goes skiing with my Dad).

I've also met Rowan Atkinson (a patient of my Dad) who I'm sure must have met Shakespeare in one of his Blackadder turns.

JmC
Reflected glory

[(Anonymous)]

I once met Boris Johnson!
Do I win?

H

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

yes.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

My link in is a set/prop creator for the matrix sequels and star wars prequels. So I'm 2 steps from Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, George Lucas, Ewan Macgregor etc. From Ewan it's easy to get almost anywhere, the man gets around.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

does cutting up bits of famous people count as meeting them?

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

i got drunk with him in the red lion once

i fell over his bike


so did he

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

i asked patrick moore to marry me... he said no

but he was a gent about it

(i asked rolf harris too, but he was already taken)

((those are the only two men my mother has ever given her blessing to a union with, for some unholy reason))

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Which bits?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It's kinda like meeting Michaerl Sheard - the man appeared in both Star Wars and Indiana Jones and from there you can get pretty much anywhere in entertainment very quickly.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

see, i can mention which bit OR which person but not both!

fie for patient confidentiality!

one of them was really quite rude to me over the phone for taking too long (more than 6 hours) over a (very non-urgent) diagnosis when i was working in an extremely busy path lab

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

I can get to Fidel Castro. The question is, did Juan Peron and Castro ever meet, as if they did then I can get to Eva Peron as well...

Samuel L Kacjson, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ewan Mc G, Neve Campbell and probably several more I can do in one step. But I cheat. :-)

[adventink.livejournal.com]

Me to Issac Asimov To Neil Armstrong (Dr. A was a consultant to NASA) from there go to George Low (NASA Dirctor) to Kennedy (but I believe there was a direct meeting so forget Low. From Kennedy we go (if not directly, then from CIA Director Allen Dulles) to Castro and Peron.

Asimov to Kennedy to Richard Nixon to George Bush senior to Hugo Chavez to Carlos the Jakal (might be less, but the CIA disavows any knowledge...).

And the Bard?

Me to you to Baker to Churchill to King George and back to Liz the First...(do we get extra steps when covering 600 or so years?)

[(Anonymous)]

I had lunch with Castro's bodyguard.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

um.. so, I've met (as in at least held a decent conversation with)

Rolf Harris
Patrick Moore
Boris Johnson
Jean Paul Gaultier
Magenta Devine (http://www.facetoface.org/sp_3.html)
Richard Dawkins
Steve Jones (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/biology/academic-staff/jones/jones.htm)
Mark Chadwick (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/music/images/levellers_gig_270.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/music/levellers_rev.shtml&h=165&w=270&sz=28&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=N8HDUQ6iMM_J_M:&tbnh=69&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmark%2Bchadwick%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN) (and the other Levellers)
Gary Oldman
Matt Black (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Black)
Mark Moore (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=7900250)
Siobhan Fahey
Brian Sewell

There are probably a bundle more but that have slipped the memory temporarily (I've tended to meet odd people out clubbing, nuff said). I should think you can get quite a few wierd and wonderful places with that lot. My lab head got knighted last year too, so he's met HRH, and that should get me a few places!

God only knows how you could get to Shakespeare o_O

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

that means that you've vicariously touched the Queen's privates!

not many can say *that*

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

How on earth does one have a decent conversation with Magenta Devine?

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

The Queen and anyone in her "Household" who required his services. If this include any other royal I don't know...

JmC
Don't know how many would want to say that!