Idina Menzel was in Rent with Taye Diggs
Diggs was in Chicago with Dominic West
Dom was in Mona Lisa Smile with Maggie Gyllenhall
and Maggie was in Stranger than Fiction with Kristen Chenoweth


Barbara Bricker to Harry Anderson (of Night Court fame).

Wow, you like to find the obscure people UTM.

Barbara Bricker was in Night of Evil with William Campbell
William Campbell was in The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman with Martin Landau
Martin Landau was in The Majestic with Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey was in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events with Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly was in Muppet Treasure Island with Tim Curry
Tim Curry was in It with Harry Anderson

Let try two knights:
Sir Ben Kingsley to Sir Michael Caine

Let try two knights:
Sir Ben Kingsley to Sir Michael Caine


Sir Ben was in Lucky Number Slevin with Morgan Freeman
Freeman was in Batman Begins with Sir Mikey

Let's see..

Helena Bonham Carter to Diana Sowle, the two Mrs. Buckets

Helena Bonham Carter was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp was in Ed Wood with Biff Yeager
Biff Yeager was in Another You with Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder was in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Diana Sowle

try a little Salt, V. (with almost same first names)
Julie Dawn Cole to Julia Winter

Julie Dawn Cole was in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Roy Kinnear
Kinnear was in The Return of the Musketeers with Christopher Lee
and Lee was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Julia Winter

Theodore Salt to Barry Pepper

Theodore Salt was in 49th Parallel with Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier was in War Requiem with Sean Bean
Sean Bean was in Troy with Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt was in Oceans Elevem with Matt Damon
Matt Damon was in Saving Private Ryan with Barry Pepper

Bloodrayne 1 to 2 (unfortunately Uwe Boll is directing the second one as well)

Kristanna Loken to Natassia Malthe (try to do this without the obvious connection of Will Sanderson)

Kristanna Lokken was in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines with the Governator
Ahhnold was in Batman and Robin with Uma Thurman
Uma was in Pulp Fiction with Bruce Willis
Willis was in Sin City with Josh Hartnett
and Hartnett was in 40 Days and 40 Nights with Natassia Malthe


Guess I'd better add another connection challenge: Connect Mustard to The Mayo!

Mustard was in Bandits of El Dorado with Clayton Moore
Clayton Moore was in The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold with Belle Mitchell
Belle Mitchell was in Crazed with Rigg Kennedy
Rigg Kennedy was in Swarm of the Snakehead with The Mayo

now that we have mayo and mustard
try
Harry HAM to Paul CHEESE

next we need some bread to complete the sandwich

Harry Ham was in The Four Feathers (the 1921 version) with Roger Livesey
Roger was in Hamlet (the 1969 version) with Sir Anthony Hopkins
Hopkins was in Bad Company with Chris Rock
Rock was in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back with Carrie Fisher
Fisher was in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi with Jeremy Bulloch
and Bulloch was in Number One, Longing. Number Two, Regret with Paul Cheese

Nice one, Sam. Go with Ali Larter to Masi Oka.

Ali was in Legally Blonde with Reese Witherspoon
Witherspoon was in LB 2 with Masi

The two alfreds..

Michael Gough to Michael Caine

Michael Gough was in Batman Forever with Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman was in Bewitched with Sir Michael Caine

The Librarian to Robin Hood

Noah Wyle to Cary Elwes

Noah was in Donnie Darko with Patrick Swazye
Dirty Dancine Pat was in Point Break with Gary Busey
Busey was in Predator 2/Lethal Weapon with Danny Glover
Glover was in Saw with Cary

God to Satan

George Burns to Gabriel Byrne

George Burns was in Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with Steve Martin
Martin was in L. A. Story with Kevin Pollack
and Pollack was in The Usual Suspects with Gabriel Byrne


William Sadler to James M. Glenn - one Grim Reaper to another.

Man, that Glenn guy is obscure..

Glenn to Alec Nemser in Spookies (The only movie 80 percent of the people in it have been in)
Nemser to John Rhys Davies in Princess Diaries 2
Davies to Harvey Keitel in Shadow Dancer
Keitel to Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction
Willis to Sadler in Die Hard 2

Let's try something different..three way dance, if you can do it in standard six, brownie points, if not, up to 12 (six each)

Something easy.. I think Bruce Willis to Sly Stallone to Arnold Schwarzenegger

Willis was in Pulp Fiction with Christopher Walken
Walken was in Antz with Sly Stallone
Stallone was in Rocky with Carl Wethers
and Wethers was in Predator with The Governator


Try femme fatales: Glenn Close to Sharon Stone to Rebecca DeMornay

Glenn Close was in Hook with Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman was in Sphere with Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone was in Quick and the Dead with Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Dicaprio was in The Departed with Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson was in A Few Good Men with Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland was in The Three Musketeers with Rebecca DeMornay


Lisa Brenner to Alyson Hannigan to Isla Fisher

Brenner was in The Patriot with Heath Ledger
Heath was in Brokeback Mountain with Linda Cardenelli
Linda was in Dead Man on Campus with Hannigan
Then you sort of backtrack by saying Hannigan was in Dead Man with Linda
Linda was in Scooby Doo with Isla.


How about...

Burt Ward to Chris O'Donnell to Evan Sabara, 3 Robins.

Waycos or Prod - please delete the offending post above mine...



BALEETED? Delteeted?

Taken care of. Just took a bit.
-Prodigal

Burt Ward was in Batman: The Movie with Burgess Meredith
Burgess was in Grumpy Old Men with Daryl Hannah
Hannah was in Kill Bill Volume 2 with Uma Thurman
and Uma was in Batman and Robin with Chris O'Donnell
O'Donnell was in Batman and Robin with George Clooney
and Clooney was in Spy Kids with Evan Sabara

May the luck o' the Irish be with ye. Catharine O'Hara to Rosie O'Donnell to Chris O'Donnell.

I know that a lot of you have been PMing me to alert me of spam in here and I appreciate it. We (me and my fellow mods) have been taking care of it as we get to it but just don't have enough time to PM everyone one of you back. Thanks.

Another one right after you posted that Waycos! Jeez. What's gotten into the spammers?
-Prodigal

::waycos:: And there was another after that. What I find curious is why the 6 degrees thread.

Okay, I can do that in 7 steps on my own, 5 with the help of IMDb. Averages out to 6. (I figure since it's been unanswered for 10 days, it's a wide open field.)

Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy were in Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration
Eugene Levy and Steve Martin were in Bringing Down the House
Steve Martin and Rick Moranis were in Parenthood and My Blue Heaven
Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell were in The Flintstones
Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd were in Exit to Eden
Dan Aykroyd and Drew Barrymore were in 50 First Dates
Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell were in Mad Love

Or we can get rid of Eugene Levy and Steve Martin entirely, if you count voice work in straight-to-video movies:

Catherine O'Hara and Rick Moranis were in Brother Bear 2
Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell were in The Flintstones
Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd were in Exit to Eden
Dan Aykroyd and Drew Barrymore were in 50 First Dates
Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell were in Mad Love

Then again, there might be some creative way to get Moranis/Aykroyd for Ghostbusters (or Little Shop of Horrors), Aykroyd/Barrymore for 50 First Dates, and Aykroyd/O'Donnell for Exit to Eden. Dan Aykroyd's something of a nexus point there.

Here's one that I haven't checked out myself, but it should be interesting -- any plausibly short list will be considered a winner. But first, why are they on this list together?

Michael Landon, Michael J. Fox, and Jack Nicholson. In any order.

Michael Landon was in Fight for the Title with Bill Erwin
Bill Erwin was in Somewhere In Time with Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour was in Quest For Camelot with Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan was in Mars attacks with both Michael J. Fox and Jack Nicholson

On a Sci-fi kick this morning...
Ellen Muth to Erica Cerra to Gina Torres

Damn, you're good. I bow down before you. Had no idea I'd unwittingly given up a double-bagger with Fox and Nicholson. Mars Attacks cracked me up, but I had no recollection of either of them being in it.

Oh, and the reason I picked those three... They were all werewolves.

Michael Landon: I Was a Teenage Werewolf, 1957
Michael J. Fox: Teen Wolf, 1985
Jack Nicholson: Wolf, 1994

I knew I should've gone with David Naughton. Although it turns out that he also co-starred with Michael J. Fox in Midnight Madness (1980). That's it! Michael J. Fox is spreading werewolf-ism!!

Ellen Muth was in Dolores Claiborn with Kathy Bates
Bates was in Rat Race with John Cleese
Cleese was in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle with Lucy Liu
Liu was in Payback with Kris Kristofferson
and Kris was in Blade: Trinity with Erica Cerra

Cerra to Snipes in Blade: Trinity
Snipes was in Money Train with Woody Harrelson
Harrelson was in She Hate Me with the luscious Monica Belluci
and Belluci was in Matrix: Reloaded with Gina Torres


I know there's gotta be a faster way, but nine degrees was the best I could come up with. Now go with Kate Mulgrew to William Shatner to Scott Bakula without using Star Trek.

Kate Mulgrew was in Throw Mama From the Train with Billy Crystal
Bolly Crystal was in City Slickers 2:The Legend of Curly's Gold with Jon Lovitz
John Lovitz was in National Lampoon's: Loaded Weapon 1 with William Shatner
William Sharner was in National Lampoon's: Loaded Weapon 1 with Kathy Ireland
Kathy Ireland was in Necessary Roughness with Scott Bakula

3 Daisys -- 2 Dukes and a Princess
Catherine Bach to Jessica Simpson to Samantha Mathis

Catherine Bach was in Cannonball Run II with Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds was in The Dukes of Hazzard with Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson was in The Master of Disguise with Erick Avari
Erick Avari was in Ritual with Tim Curry
Tim Curry was in FernGully: The Last Rainforest with Samantha Mathis

try a br bk bb
Burt Reynolds to Buster Keaton to Barry Bostwick

Burt Reynolds was in Deliverance with Ned Beatty
Beatty was in 1941 with Robert Stack
Stack was in Airplane! with Ethel Merman
and Merman was in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Buster Keaton

Keaton was in Watership Down with John Hurt
Hurt was in Valiant with Tim Curry
and Curry, of course, was in the Rocky Horror Picture Show with Barry Bostwick

And now for something... completely different. John Cleese to Weird Al Yankovic to Ryan Stiles.

Only had to do half the work on this one...

John Cleese was in Rat Race with Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson was in Hot Shots: Part Deux with Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges was in Airplane with Leslie Nielson
Leslie Nielson was in The Naked Gun with Weird Al

Now mirror part of that...

Weird Al was in The Naked Gun with Leslie Nielson
Leslie Nielson was in Airplane with Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges was in Hot Shots: Part Deux with Ryan Stiles

Scrooges...

Sir Michael Caine (Muppet Christmas Carol) to Bill Murray (Scrooged) to Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol) (at least one must use their corresponding Christmas Carol movie)

Sir Michael Caine was in A Muppet Christmas Carol with Frank Oz
Oz was in The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd
and Aykroyd was in Ghostbusters with Bill Murray

Murray was in Charlie's Angels with Cameron Diaz
Diaz was in The Mask with Amy Yasbeck
and Yasbeck was in Robin Hood: Men in Tights with Patrick Stewart

Child stars: Shirley Temple to Fred Savage to Dakota Fanning

I think we need more stringent registration process. These messages are getting very annoying.

We're doing what we can folks, it appears to be some new type of bot that looks for famous peoples' names and then posts in that topic. Just keep sending us reports and we'll try to get them as fast as possible.
-Prodigal

Shirley Temple was in Curly Top with Rochelle Hudson
Rochelle Hudson was in Rebel Without A Cause with Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper was in Super Mario Bros. with Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis was in Broken Arrow with Christian Slater
Christian Slater was in The Wizard with Fred Savage
Fred Savage was in The Wizard with Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges is in Charlotte's Web with Dakota Fanning

Santas...
David Huddleston to Tim Allen to Edmund Gwenn

Mod Edit: I'm leaving this one as a warning to the rest of the spammers. I will start hunting your families if this crap keeps up. Oh and you fail at life, even if you're a bot.
-Prodigal

Due to the holidays being over I will excercise "power of last post" and change from Santas to dragon movies...

Christian Bale (Reign of Fire) to Sean Connery (Dragonheart) to Alicia Witt (supporting actress in Dark Kingdom)

Sorry, I was away for a while. Christmas in Florida with the in-laws...

Dave Huddleston was in Frantic with Harrison Ford
Ford was in Working Girl with Sigourney Weaver
and Weaver was in GalaxyQuest with Tim Allen

Allen was in Christmas With the Kranks with Dan Aykroyd
Aykroyd was in Ghostbusters with Bill Murray
Murray was in Charlie's Angels with John Forsythe
and Forsythe was in The Trouble with Harry with Edmund Gwenn



Christian Bale was in Batman Begins with Morgan Freeman
and Freeman was in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Sean Connery

Connery was in The Rock with Nicholas Cage
Cage was in Moonstruck with Olymnpia Dukakis
and Dukakis was in Mr. Holland's Opus with Alicia Witt


Try rednecks: Kevin Bacon (Tremors) to Woody Harrelson (Cowboy Way) to Randy Quaid (Independence Day)

I've been gone quite some time. Since when have we gone up to three?

Good work on both my previous posts...
Now for yours...

Kevin Bacon was in Wild Things with Bill Murray
Bill Murray was in Kingpin with both Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid



Assassins:
John Cusack (Grosse Point Blank) to Bridget Fonda (Point of No Return) to Uma thurman (Kill Bill)



Vash: We tried it last month to make this a little more challenging and it has stuck since...

Damn, I forgot all about Kingpin. Ah well.

Cusack was in America's Sweethearts with Julia Roberts
Roberts was in Flatliners with Oliver Platt
and Platt was in Lake Placid with Bridget Fonda

Fonda was in Jackie Brown with Samuel L. Jackson
and Jackson was in Pulp Fiction with Uma Thurman


SNL alumni: Jane Curtin to Eddie Murphy to Will Ferrell

Alright:

Jane Curtin was in Antz with Dan Aykroyd

Aykroyd was in Trading Places with Eddie Murphy

Murphy was in many a picture including all the Shreks with John Lithgow

Lithgow was in Orange County with Jack Black

Black abused poor baxter in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy with Will Ferrell.

Let's try Tom Baker to Sylvester McCoy to the sexiest man alive David Tennant.

A week??? Why did it takes so long? That is what happens when I take a hiatus to meet a work deadline.

Tom Baker was in Dungeons and Dragons with Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons was in Longitude with Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy was in Shaun of the Dead with Mark Donovan
Mark Donovan was in Do You Have a License to Save This Planet with Sylvester McCoy
tracking back...
Sylvester McCoy was in Do You Have A License to Save This Planet with Mark Donovan
Mark Donovan was in Shaun of the Dead with Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy was in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with David Tennant


Magician Assistants:
Jessica Biel (Illusionist) to Scarlett Johansson (Prestige) to Martin Short (Merlin)

You certainly knew how to toss around the key players. You are sooo right. definitely didn't think it would take a week. guess there just isnt enough doctor who fans.

anyway:

Jessica Biel was in Mutha-f**kin Home of the Brave with his Lordship Samuel L. Jackson

Jackson was in The Negotiator with Paul Giamotti

Giamotti will be in the Nanny Diaries with Scarlet Johansson

Johansson was in My Borther the Pig with Judge Reinhold

Reinhold was in Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause with Martin Short

(btw, LESS THEN 10 HOURS LATER!!!! MUhahahahahaha! Nah, yours was actually really tough.)

Ok, lets try:

Joan Rivers to Michael Clark Duncan to Peter Sallis

Joan Rivers was in Look Who's Talking 2 with Bruce Willis
Willis was in Armageddon with Michael Clarke Duncan

Duncan was in The Island with Ewan McGregor
Ewan was in Big Fish with Helena Bonham Carter
and Carter was in Wallace & Grommit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit with Peter Sallis


Grace Jones to Orlando Jones to Orlando Bloom

Like the bastard son of the Riddler, you presented me a challenge here UTM. But nonetheless, I am the Bruce Wayne Butt Kick to your clever little enigma.

Here it Goes:

Grace Jones was in Palmer's Pick Ups with Robert Carradine

Carradine was in Long Riders with Ever Carradine

The second Carradine will be costaring in The Adventures of Beatle Boyin with Orlando Jones

Jones was in Runaway Jury with Rachael Weisz

Weisz will be in My Blueberry Nights with Jude Law

Law was in Wilde with Orlando Bloom

(I am aware I used two "going to be's" in my connections. In fairness, both are in Post-Production, meaning the used actors/actresses are already confirmed to be in them.)

Let's try some -ackmans. Hugh Jackman to Stacey Ackman to Gene Hackman

Heh, I expected you to use the easy Grace Jones - Arnold Schwarzenegger connection in Conan the Destroyer.


Hugh Jackman was in Kate & Leopold with Meg Ryan
Ryan was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise
and Cruise was in Born on the 4th of July with Jason Gedrick
and Gedrick was in Gentlemen Like Chris with Stacey Ackman

Since that's the only movie Ackman's appeared in...

Ackman was in Gentlemen Like Chris with Christopher Leirer
Leirer was in Headache with Saxon Trainor
Saxon (?!) was in Conspiracy Theory with Julia Roberts
Roberts was in The Pelican Brief with Denzel Washington
and Denzel was in Crimson Tide with Gene Hackman


How about the Smiths? Will Smith to Maggie Smith to Courtney Thorne-Smith

time out there UTM. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but you have to get to all three in six connections, no?

Nahh, we never actually set that up as a rule. That'd be asking people to connect 'em in just three moves, and there's some out there (like Stacey Ackman ) that just can't be done. Look back over the last few pages - we try to do 'em in six or less, but you actually get six degrees between the first two and six more between the second two.

Aaaaahhhh. Iti s suddenly clear.......



YOU ALL SUCK I've been racking my brains over last couple working together a six piece Kentucky Fried Stroke of Genius, and my reward is to discover i needn't have worked so hard. Whatever. I'll solve this one soon enough.

Will Smith was in Independence Day with Bill Pullman
Bill Pullman was in While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullow was in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith was in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with James Garner
James Garner was in Space Cowboys with Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones was in US Marshals with Donald Gibb
Donald Gibb was in Revenge of the Nerds 2 with Courtney Thorne-Smith

Ladies that have had the misfortune of being in a movie associated with Uwe Boll:

Kristanna Loken to Tara Reid to Claire Forlani

Sorry for beating you to this one Vash..

the beauty of the wind is that it shall blow another day. Nicely done. though for those of us who need a little refresher in bad films, I got BloodRayne, but what were the other two films?

Tara Reid was in Alone in the Dark
Claire Forlani will be in Dungeon Seige (still may have a slight glimmer of hope (but with Uwe Boll it is only a slight glimmer))

Has been a week. I think the dialouge between Vash and I may have confused some people... So I will post the three that are up...

Kristanna Loken to Tara Reid to Claire Forlani