It is official - I am two degrees away from Kevin Bacon!
 

Kevin Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick.

Kyra Sedgwick is starring in a romantic movie set in the 1970's. Some scenes from that movie involve the lead charaters playing tennis.

They filmed the tennis scenes in the Township of Wayne's "Tiger Tennis of Wayne" tennis bubble earlier today.

The same bubble in which I play every Wednesday night.

Game, set, match!

-Z-man.

You play tennis? :)

So, just occupying the same space that someone who is somehow connected to Kevin Bacon did at one point in time qualifies? :rolleyes:

You'd have to appear in the movie with Kyra Sedgwick then you'd be two degrees away.

you would at least need to have a blt sandwich while watching a kyra sedgewick movie.

Please post any tasteless topless photos of Kyra, so that then you can wave your golden admin sword and delete and remove said photo to save the rest of our eyes and society as a whole..........

Kyra Sedgwick - Google Search

I'm only two degrees away from being married to Liv Tyler.

Yeah really, She's been around to my house a lot. Stayed the night quite a bit. Poured her heart out telling her deepest feelings.... The list goes on.

The two degrees bit is, sure it my house but I didn't actually live here at the time, and it certainly wasn't me she came to see. But, and a really big but, if it was me she came to see I'm sure we would be happy married and kids alll over the place.

well i guess that makes all of us in PPOT 3 degrees away. yay.

Mmmmmmmm, bacon.
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Yes, I'm still on a diet.

Worked with his sister, great gal.

So I work on about a dozen TV shows. So does Craigster and Varmint, and FXEditor, and CDrone what does that make us? One degree? so that would make all of you two degrees. You've been promoted!

FAIL

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If you'd lost millions thanks to Bernie Madoff you'd be 1 degree away.

Ok - well, I flew from LA to Newark in the same plane that Dick Clark rode on -- does that count?!? ;)

-Z-man.

My Dad had dinner with Jayne Mansfield one night.






Of course, she was on the other side of the aisle in the airplane...

my brush with fame:

Back in the mid 80's I was sitting in a bar in Mathattan Beach one Sunday watching a football game and I saw Bill Daily (Roger Healey on I dream of Jeanie) sitting by himself at a table.

I left him alone but when I was on the way to the restroom he looked up. I didn't want to be "one of those people" so I just said "I like your work, thanks" kinda low key and kept walking.
When I was done with my business I walked back and sat down, leaving him alone.
(He later told me that he thought that was cool, he hates getting bugged by fans asking for autographs and stuff).

About 15 minutes later he sat down at the bar a couple stools away, and I still didn't bother him except the glance and nod, "hey".

He started talking about the game, turns out he's a regular guy. Kind of quiet but pretty cool. (BTW before anyone starts making any of those kids of jokes, we're both straight).

We carried on a good converation over too many beers, eventually the stories drifted to show business but I still acted like it was no bid deal, just another interesting career. I thought it was a really big deal but didn't let on.

He said working on I dream of jeanie was a crack up except that Larry hagman was the biggest horse's butt he's ever met. Drunk every day and throwing tantrums like a 3 year old.
He said Hagman tried to get in a fight with him one time but he just moved to the side and hagman fell on his face and barfed.

I had to ask about Barbara Eden, all he said was that she was a sweetheart and I ever met her I'd fall in love with her in a hearbeat.

He also gave me a really good trivia question: In I dream of jeanie, he was supposed to be an air force test pilot turned astronaut but on the show he wore an army corp of engineers uniform because it was all they had in wardrobe that would fit him at the time (they didn't have any army astronauts back then).
He talked about working with Steve Allen and a bunch of other famous people.

Turns out Dailey was a musician and used to do it professionally before he got into comedy and still played bass.
Oh and he said Bob Newhart is the funniest man who ever walked the planet. He said after 5 minutes of hanging out with Newhart I'd have have beer shooting through my nose and I'd pass out because I'd be laughing so hard I wouldn't be able to breathe.
He said if newhart and Dick Van Dyke were ever in the same room they'd be so funny someone would actually die from laughing. That'd be a kick.

Wouldn't mind hanging out and killing some beers again with Dailey sometime but he's gotta be pretty old by now.

Snort!

Yep, you're the closest so far.

I really enjoyed his character in that show and loved Barbara Eden. :)

I hung out with Captain Lou in LAX once.

We ran into Richard Simmons at the Newark airport one time. A whole bunch of flights were grounded due to weather (surprise) and a crowd of us were all stuck in the terminal. He put one arm around my wife and the other around my mom for a photo op.

However goofy/weird/creepy you think that guy is on TV, he's worse in person. :eek:

One of my dearest female friends in the world is Courteney Cox's first cousin. But if you ask me, my friend outshines her famous cousin by a mile! :-)

I met Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes), Marion Ross (Mrs Cunningham from Happy Days) and Lyle Waggoner (Carol Burnett show) in LaJolla, CA during the early 80's and they were all extremely nice, kind people...

I had thanksgiving dinner at Strom Thurmonds house in 99. Now THAT is one funny s.o.b.!!
And I had dinner with Dale Earnhardt back in 00 when he came to the GM dealer I was service mgr , he was very cool and down to earth.
Oh, and when I was a service manager at a Freightliner dealer I got to hang out with they cool guys from Korn after their motor coach broke down which was awesome!!
And GW came to the rib joint I was at in Chattanooga, I got to shake his hand but the secret cervix guys wouldn't let anyone near their table .

So how close does this lowly experiences get me?:D

Just remembered another brush with fame -- about 20 years ago, I ate salad at Lou Piniella's house. His daughter attended a church youth group that I was a counselor for, and we had a progressive dinner with salad at Mr. Piniella's place. Real nice guy - down to earth. Love his little study which was filled with trophies, special bats and balls..etc.

-Z-man.

at the tender age of eight i became the official martini mixer for my parents. when i was ten in 1960 we moved to new rochelle. as we were getting the new house set up i told my folks that we needed to go to the liquor store to get more gin.
new house, new town, new liquor store.
we walked into wykagyl liquors on the north side of town,
i could not believe my eyes. standing behind the counter was buffalo bob smith.
apparently "the howdy doody show"was not his day job.

I used to bonk Angelina Jolie's epilation professional.

Top that. :D

My ex-wife slept with John Kerry...

Over the course of my near 30-years in a journalism related field I have had the opportunity to "meet" what seems to me countless "celebrities" from almost every realm imaginable.
What seems to be almost constant over all these past years is how disappointing most have been. Some are the worst people you could imagine. Some are wonderful.
I have boiled it all down to this way of looking at it: They're just like us "regular" people, they just have different jobs. Some make more money than most of us will ever see; some will lose more than we'll make, and by and large you can't count on them.
There are some exceptions, but most of them are dying off at a regular clip.
Not too many "young" ones that mean that much to me anymore.

LOL, i met Lyle Waggoner too. Before that I had no idea how SHORT he was. Really short. On the Carrol Burnett show they always tried to make him look like the big tall leading man type, but not even.