May MacAvoy was in "The Wings of Eagles" with John Wayne. Wayne was in "Donovan's Reef" with Jack Warden. Warden was in "Edge of the City" (B+, my ass) with Ruby Dee. Unfortunately, Ruby Dee was in "Baby Geniuses" with somebody called Leo Fitzgerald.

I'm starting to get burnt out. What about W.C. Fields and Mary-Kate Olsen?

Sweet! Check this out...
W.C. Fields was in "Alice In Wonderland" (1933) with Gary Cooper, who was in "High Noon" with Lloyd Bridges who was in "Airplane" with Leslie Nielsen who was in "Naked Gun 33 1/3" with Olympia Dukakis who was in "I Love Trouble" with Eugene Levy who, of course, was in "New York Minute" with Mary-Kate Olsen. (And believe it or not, that is six degrees)
Try this one on for size...

Pauly Shore and Ernest Borgnine

Pauly Shore was in 'Jury Duty' with Tia Carerre, who was in 'True Lies' with Tom Arnold, who was in 'McHale's Navy' with Ernest Borgnine.

Uma and Oprah

Uma was In "Kill Bill" with Daryl Hannah. Hannah was in "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford. Ford was in "Apocalypse Now" with Albert Hall. Hall was in "Beloved" with Oprah.

Ramon Novarro and Jennifer Lopez.

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You kiddin' me?! Ramon Navarro was in "The Outriders" with James Whitmore who was in "The Majestic" with Jim Carrey who was in the "Truman Show" with Ed Harris who was in "Buffalo Soldiers" with Joaquin Phoenix who was in "U-Turn" with Jennifer Lopez.

Mickey Rourke and Shaq

Shaq was in "Blue Chips" with Nick Nolte. Nolte was in the "Cape Fear" remake with Robert DeNiro. DeNiro was in "Angel Heart" with Mickey Rourke.

It seems as if everybody's giving imdb a good workout, but you do learn a lot from this game.

Mary Pickford and Rachel Hurd-Wood.

Nice Mark...the girl who's been in ONE movie. BUT, that makes it even more fun...here we go...

Mary Pickford was in "Sparrows" with Roy Stewart who was in "Mystery Ranch" with George O'Brien who was in "Fort Apache" with Henry Fonda who was in "The Longest Day" with Sean Connery who was in "Thunderheart" (1996) with Jason Isaacs who was in "Peter Pan" with Rachel Hurd-Wood! AND AGAIN HE DOES IT IN SIX MOVES!!!

Dolph Lundgren and Lionel Barrymore

You mean "Dragonheart" (1996)?

Lionel Barrymore was in "Ah, Wilderness!" with Mickey Rooney. Rooney was in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Billy Barty. Barty was in "Masters of the Universe" with Dolph Lundgren.

Boy George and Rin Tin Tin (even IMDB says he's an actor)

EDIT- How long it takes doesn't matter, but it shouldn't take more than five.

The original game is "six degrees of kevin bacon" so I guess I was following those "rules" and actually surprising myself that I was doing it in so few moves. And thanks for the "Dragonheart" correction. Ok...I couldn't believe it...

Boy George was in "The Wolves of Kromer" with Rita Davies who was in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with John Cleese who was in "Time Bandits" with Sean Connery who was in (guess where this is going)"The Longest Day" with Henry Fonda who was in "The Grapes of Wrath" with Walter Miller who was in "The Lone Defender" with our boy, RIN TIN TIN!!! I thought it would take more than seven.

Wesley Snipes and Henry Walthall

Like you said before Mark, I think it is actually more fun if you take a bunch of detours on your "journey".

p.s. I'm out for the weekend. I'll catch you guys bright and early on Tuesday! Have a great Holiday!

Henry B. Walthall was in "The Birth of a Nation" with Lillian Gish, who was in "The Whales of August" with Mary Steenburgen, who was in "Cross Creek" with Alfre Woodard, who was in "Passion Fish" with Angela Bassett, who was in "Waiting to Exhale" with Wesley Snipes.

Cab Calloway and Fritz Lang (as an actor)

Cab was in "The Blues Brothers" with John Candy who was in "JFK" with Kevin Bacon (sweet!) who was in "Diner" with Daniel Stern who was in "City Slickers" with Jack Palance who was in "Contempt" (1963) with Fritz Lang, playing himself oddly enough.

George Barnes and Britney Spears I will be impressed if you can do it in six moves or less.

p.s. How was the weekend?

Oh, ye of little faith. George Barnes was in "Ain't He Grand?" with Thomas Carrigan, who was in "Airmail" with Ralph Bellamy, who was in "Trading Places" with Dan Aykroyd, who was in "Crossroads" with Britney Spears.

The weekend was calm and lazy personally. I stirred up some trouble around the forums, mostly off-topic. How about you?

Jacques Tati and Mieko Harada (Piece of cake.)

Ok...here's the route I took...
Jaques Tati was in "Mon Oncle" with Jean-Pierre Zola who was in "The Train" with Burt Lancaster who was in "Field of Dreams" with Ray Liotta who was in "Goodfellas" with Bobby DeNiro who was in "Mean Streets" with Scorsese (who also directed of course) who was in "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams" with Mieko Harada.

How about...
Rossy de Palma and Rüdiger Vogler

Good weekend. Got some sun, did a little jet-skiing. Can't complain!

Wow, I was wondering if I made the forums crash earlier. I went to post my answer to this about 200 minutes ago, and after a big waste of time, no forums. I DIDN'T DO IT!

This is what I did: Rossy de Palma was in "Talk of Angels" with Frances McDormand, who was in "Short Cuts" with Jack Lemmon [who was in "Glengarry, Glen Ross"---NO! NOT THIS TIME!!!!], who was REALLY in "The Great Race" with Peter Falk, who was in "Faraway, So Close!" with Rudiger Vogler.

Lars Hanson (the silent one) and Jean Wallace (hubba hubba)

This was confusing at first because I use www.allmovie.com because I like the interface a lot better than imdb, but they have the dead Hanson's filmography mixed up with the living Hanson's. After I figured that out, it was relatively simple...

Lars Hanson was in "The Scarlet Letter" (1926) with our old friend Henry Walthall who was in "Judge Priest" with Francis Ford (not Coppola) who was in, that's right,
"Fort Apache" with, you guessed it, Henry Fonda, who was in "Jigsaw" with our lady, Jean Wallace.

Chick Ortega and Jeff Speakman (The Perfect Weapon rules!)

Chick Ortega was in "Until the End of the World" with William Hurt, who was in "Broadcast News" with Jack Nicholson, who was in "Chinatown" with James Hong, who was in "The Perfect Weapon" with Jeff Speakman.

I promise to open the game up with more well-known names, but first I have to offer these: Michele Valley and Vic Savage (Yes, I know, it's not fair.)

Ok, an easier route I took was...
Michelle Valley was in "Pretty Smart" with Patricia Arquette who was in "True Romance" with Dennis Hopper who was in "Speed" with Sandra Bullock who was in "Two Weeks Notice" with William Thourlby who was in "The Creeping Terror" with Vic Savage. BUT....

I like this route better...

Michelle Valley was in "Pretty Smart" with Patricia Arquette who was in "Bringing Out The Dead" with Ving Rhames who was in "Con Air" with Steve Buscemi who was in "28 Days" with Sandy Bottoms, I mean Bullock, who was in "2 Weeks Notice" with William Thourlby who was in "The Creeping Terror" with Vic Savage.

I LOVE Ving Rhames and Steve Buscemi so I had to do that route too.

Forget the easy ones Mark. It's the obscure actors that are more fun to try to find a way out of! So, with that in mind, let's try...

Dorothy Neumann and Paolo Lanza

Dorothy Neumann was in "Gigi" (1958) with Corinne Marchand, who was in "Lola" (1961) with Anouk Aimee, who was in "8 1/2" with Sandra Milo, who was in "Woman is a Wonderful Thing" with Tinto Brass, who was in "All Women Do It" with Paolo Lanza.

Hey, Jackie, if you want to do this one, go ahead, but could you put up a pair of more-known actors. I think we're freezing some people out who might want to play. I'm going on a hopefully-short moratorium.

Mackenzie Phillips and Rudolph Valentino

Ya, you're probably right. Well, real quick...

Mackenzie Phillips was in "American Graffiti" with Harrison Ford who was in "Working Girl" with Sigourney Weaver who was in "The Ice Storm" with Joan Allen who was in "Peggy Sue Got Married" with John Carradine who was in "The Inspector General" with Alan Hale who was in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with Rudolph Valentino.

Ok...someone help us out with this one...

Ron Howard and Matt Damon

YES! I finally did one...

Ron Howard was in "The Grinch" as townsperson #1 with Jim Carrey who was in "The Majestic" with Matt Damon who was the voice of Luke Trimble.

Billy Bob Thornton and Daniel Day-Lewis