In 1941, an inmate of Alcatraz, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), is tried for killing a fellow-prisoner.

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With the Kevin Bacon game Bacon himself is an example of such a super connected person.

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"When I was a kid, I wanted to BE Davy Jones, " actor Kevin Bacon tweeted.

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Jimenez, the detective, was often assigned to show actors including Kevin Bacon what it was like to ride in a squad car.

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Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, Nicholas Hoult and January Jones also starred.

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On Thursday it honoured Kevin Bacon, the star of Footloose.

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So let's do the postmortem and guess what contributed to the low sales more: high prices, a half baked product or ads featuring a hairy-legged TV and Kevin Bacon?

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"I just did Kevin Bacon today, " he said.

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Twenty-five years later he is still shrouded in dreams and terror, and his two friends, Sean (Kevin Bacon), a homicide detective, and Jimmy (Sean Penn), an ex-con who runs a corner grocery, still feel the shame of not helping him.

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With Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Sissy Spacek as his wife, Gary Oldman as Oswald, and an all-star cast of witnesses and conspirators: Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci (an abominable performance), Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner, John Candy, Walter Matthau.

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Kevin Underhill is a partner at Shook, Hardy and Bacon L.L.P and the author of the popular legal humor blog Lowering the Bar.

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