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"six degrees of separation" (or "six degrees of kevin bacon ;) should find what you're looking for.

Check out the Oracle of Bacon, a fun way to kill some time.

Update: I just spent 10 minutes randomly entering actors/actresses, and I can't get a Bacon Number higher than 2!

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Re^4: Where are all the Perl programmers?
by SamCG (Hermit) on Feb 01, 2006 at 22:46 UTC
    Harpo Marx - 3
    Charlie Chaplin - 3
    W.C. Fields - 3
    Anthony J. Baker has a Bacon number of 3
    greta garbo has a Bacon number of 3.


    also randomly entering, though I got numbers as high as 4 by picking a chinese name, getting it slightly wrong, and then picking a different chinese name from the list of choices.
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