2017 - My Year of Bacon
Every year, I get a new calendar. I take this choice very seriously, as I know I will be looking at the pictures every day for an entire year.
My 2016 calendar was black and white photographs of Paris landmarks like Notre Dame and the Louvre and the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre. I could imagine myself sitting at a sidewalk bistro by the River Seine, reading poetry as I sipped my cafe au lait.
The year before I had Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos calendar which took me to the farthest ends of the universe with his Ship of the Imagination. When things got hectic, it was very calming to look at a close up of the rings of Saturn or a worm hole. Always put things into perspective.
This year, my calendar is classic movie posters. I figured with all the chaos going on in the world right now, I could use a reminder of my favorite way to escape--watching a good movie.
After I hung up the calendar in the kitchen, I decided that I'd have a little fun with the various posters, playing Six Degrees of Bacon with one of the stars in each month's featured film.
It is quite a challenge, especially since the first movie was 1925's "The Gold Rush" starring Charlie Chaplin. But he wrote, directed and had a cameo appearance in a film called "A Countess from Hong Kong" starring Sophia Loren.
Who was in "Desire Under the Elms" with Burl Ives.
Who was in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Paul Newman.
Who was in "Road to Perdition" with Tom Hanks.
Who was in "Apollo 13" with KEVIN BACON!!!!
Normally I avoid using all caps, but when you play Six Degrees of Bacon, you always shout his name at the end.
For the rest of the year, I will be posting my degrees of Bacon on the first of each month on my Facebook page.
I've already gone through all 12 movies and have my transitions ready. I've vowed never to use the same Bacon film twice. Which was also a challenge, as my favorite go-to Bacon movies are "River Wild," because Meryl Streep has been in so many films with so many actors, and "Sleepers" because that has damn near every big Hollywood star in it (Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt).
February is the classic Billy Wilder film "Double Indemnity" starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. Go to my Facebook page to check out how I got to Bacon. Or should I say who I got to Bacon?
Feel free to print your own alternative routes to other Bacon movies.
Judy Nichols is the author of several mysteries available on Amazon.
My 2016 calendar was black and white photographs of Paris landmarks like Notre Dame and the Louvre and the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre. I could imagine myself sitting at a sidewalk bistro by the River Seine, reading poetry as I sipped my cafe au lait.
The year before I had Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos calendar which took me to the farthest ends of the universe with his Ship of the Imagination. When things got hectic, it was very calming to look at a close up of the rings of Saturn or a worm hole. Always put things into perspective.
This year, my calendar is classic movie posters. I figured with all the chaos going on in the world right now, I could use a reminder of my favorite way to escape--watching a good movie.
After I hung up the calendar in the kitchen, I decided that I'd have a little fun with the various posters, playing Six Degrees of Bacon with one of the stars in each month's featured film.
It is quite a challenge, especially since the first movie was 1925's "The Gold Rush" starring Charlie Chaplin. But he wrote, directed and had a cameo appearance in a film called "A Countess from Hong Kong" starring Sophia Loren.
Who was in "Desire Under the Elms" with Burl Ives.
Who was in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Paul Newman.
Who was in "Road to Perdition" with Tom Hanks.
Who was in "Apollo 13" with KEVIN BACON!!!!
Normally I avoid using all caps, but when you play Six Degrees of Bacon, you always shout his name at the end.
For the rest of the year, I will be posting my degrees of Bacon on the first of each month on my Facebook page.
I've already gone through all 12 movies and have my transitions ready. I've vowed never to use the same Bacon film twice. Which was also a challenge, as my favorite go-to Bacon movies are "River Wild," because Meryl Streep has been in so many films with so many actors, and "Sleepers" because that has damn near every big Hollywood star in it (Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt).
February is the classic Billy Wilder film "Double Indemnity" starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. Go to my Facebook page to check out how I got to Bacon. Or should I say who I got to Bacon?
Feel free to print your own alternative routes to other Bacon movies.
Judy Nichols is the author of several mysteries available on Amazon.
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