| One night when I apparently had too much (way too much) time on my hands, I decided that there was no reason that I couldn�t link any Hollywood actor by six degrees to Mary Kay Place. Most folks are aware of the silly parlor game (I�m not old enough to use this term, but what the hell) The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, connecting him to just about any other actor by no more than six co-stars, any two having worked together in one film. So, I started thinking about two of my favorite old Hollywood actors and easily came up with these examples of the Mary Kay Six Degrees potential. Rita Hayworth >Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles >Citizen Kane Joseph Cotten >Shadow of a Doubt Teresa Wright >Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker Mary Kay Place Montgomery Clift >Lonelyhearts Maureen Stapleton >Reds Diane Keaton >Annie Hall Woody Allen >Bananas Louise Lasser >�Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman� Mary Kay Place Then I started getting some random names out of the back of my film guide. Christopher Lee >The Three Musketeers Geraldine Chaplin >A Wedding Carol Burnett >The Four Seasons Alan Alda >A New Life Mary Kay Place Bela Lugosi >The Raven Vincent Price >The Ten Commandments Anne Baxter >The Magnificent Ambersons Joseph Cotten >Shadow of a Doubt (sorry that I got redundant) Teresa Wright >Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker Mary Kay Place Ava Gardner >The Barefoot Contessa Humphrey Bogart >To Have and Have Not Lauren Bacall >The Mirror Has Two Faces Jeff Bridges >Jagged Edge Glenn Close >The Big Chill or Nine Lives or The Safety of Objects Mary Kay Place Jerry Lewis >The King of Comedy Robert DeNiro >New York, New York Mary Kay Place (I had no idea that this one would be so easy to get.) So, since that one turned out to be easier than I�d expected, I decided to try my Kevin Bacon game ender. Of course, I was cheating all the way here with my film guide, and at parties we don�t allow such luxuries. Anyway, here was my most difficult connection. Fatty Arbuckle >Our Congressman Will Rogers >Judge Priest Hattie McDaniel >Since You Went Away Jennifer Jones >Ruby Gentry Karl Malden >The Cincinnati Kid Ann-Margaret >A New Life Mary Kay Place Then, I went back to some random choices. Trevor Howard (I don't really even know who he is.) >Mutiny on the Bounty Marlon Brando >The Young Lions Dean Martin >Pardners Jerry Lewis (so easy to fall on the above mentioned crutch) >The King of Comedy Robert DeNiro >New York, New York Mary Kay Place Paul Henreid >Now, Voyager Bette Davis >Hush�Hush, Sweet Charlotte Agnes Moorehead (yes, I skipped the Joseph Cotten thing; Citizen Kane's too easy) >Alice Through the Looking Glass Nanette Fabray >Harper Valley P.T.A. Ronny Cox Now, here, I could end it with Bound for Glory in which Mary Kay Place appeared, but instead I wanted to see what else I could do and came up with six degrees by using >Robocop Kurtwood Smith >Citizen Ruth or Girl, Interrupted Mary Kay Place (and wasn�t Robocop worth it?) Richard Kiel (He was in Eegah! for any �MST 3K� fans out there.) >So Fine Ryan O'Neal >What's Up Doc? Barbra Streisand >The Mirror Has Two Faces Jeff Bridges >King Kong Jessica Lange >How to Beat the High Cost of Living Dabney Coleman >�Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman� or Modern Problems Mary Kay Place OR... >How to Beat the High Cost of Living Fred Willard >"The History of White People in America" or Sweet Home Alabama Mary Kay Place (I purposefully went a different route than the Glenn Close thing since it becomes such a crutch once you divine a path.) And to end this inanity, here�s the near-mandatory Kevin Bacon connection. There are probably more than 100 routes to link the two actors, but the easiest, and certainly the shortest, is: Kevin Bacon >Starting Over Mary Kay Place |
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| These are co-stars with whom Mary Kay has worked often: Alan Alda � �M*A*S*H;� A New Life; �The West Wing� Anne Archer � Leslie�s Folly; Waltz Across Texas Bess Armstrong � �My So-Called Life;� Pecker Orson Bean � Being John Malkovich; �Forever Fernwood;� Just My Imagination; �Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman� Candice Bergen � Starting Over; Sweet Home Alabama Eileen Brennan � The History of White People in America, Vols. I and II; Private Benjamin Bill Campbell � �Further Tales of the City;� �Tales of the City� Pamela Tice Chapman � Death and Texas; Francis Ford Coppola�s The Rainmaker Glenn Close � The Big Chill; Nine Lives; The Safety of Objects Dabney Coleman � �Forever Fernwood;� �Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman;� Modern Problems Chris Cooper � Bed of Lies; Silver City Claire Danes � Francis Ford Coppola�s The Rainmaker; �My So-Called Life� Laura Dern � Citizen Ruth; Smooth Talk Danny DeVito � Francis Ford Coppola�s The Rainmaker; Terms of Endearment Olympia Dukakis � �Further Tales of the City;� �Tales of the City� Charles Durning � Death and Texas; Leslie�s Folly; Starting Over Clea DuVall � Committed; Girl, Interrupted; How to Make the Cruelest Month Hector Elizondo � �Chicago Hope;� Samantha Ethan Embry � How to Make the Cruelest Month; Sweet Home Alabama Tippi Hedren � Citizen Ruth; Teresa�s Tattoo Christine Lahti � �Chicago Hope;� Crazy from the Heart; Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story; My First Mister (directed Mary Kay) Jared Leto � Girl, Interrupted; �My So-Called Life� Laura Linney � �Further Tales of the City;� �Tales of the City� Martin Mull � The History of White People in America, Vols. I and II; �Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman;� Portrait of a White Marriage Dermot Mulroney � Bright Angel; The Safety of Objects; Samantha Brittany Murphy � Girl, Interrupted; �King of the Hill� Ken Olin � Telling Secrets; �thirtysomething� Martha Plimpton � Eye of God; Pecker; Samantha Burt Reynolds � Citizen Ruth; Starting Over Wayne Rogers � The Girl Who Spelled Freedom; �M*A*S*H;� Nobody Knows Anything Mickey Rourke � Act of Love; Francis Ford Coppola�s The Rainmaker John Shea � Leslie�s Folly; A New Life Harry Shearer � The History of White People in America, Vols. I and II; Portrait of a White Marriage (also directed Mary Kay in all three HBO movies) Jean Smart � Just My Imagination; Sweet Home Alabama Kurtwood Smith � Citizen Ruth; Girl, Interrupted Lili Taylor � Bright Angel; Pecker Sam Wanamaker � Baby Boom (Mary Kay also directed him on the �Baby Boom� TV series); Private Benjamin Fred Willard � �Forever Fernwood;� The History of White People in America, Vols. I and II; Killer Diller; Nobody Knows Anything; Portrait of a White Marriage I think that Fred gets the award for the most individual titles associated with Mary Kay Place. She has worked with director Lisa Krueger twice in Committed and Manny & Lo. She also worked with writer Charlie Kaufman twice for Being John Malkovich and Human Nature. |
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