Seven Degrees of Separation Game

[TJ]

You've heard the theory that all people are only separated by a mere seven different people - seven degrees of separation. The objective here is to connect two actors who have starred in separate movies based upon novels and connect them to each other through other actors with which they have acted through a maximum of seven people. The further disconnected they may seem the better. Then once you solve the “problem” you get to post the next connection. Remember, you can do it in less than seven, but that’s the maximum. I’ve started with an easy one as an example:

Gregory Peck who starred in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Matthew McConaughey who starred in “A Time to Kill.” Both movies based upon novels about lawyers defending clients in a very controversial case.

Gregory Peck was also in “Cape Fear” with Robert DeNiro
Robert DeNiro was in “Analyze This” with Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal was in “Parental Control” with Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei was in “The Lincoln Lawyer” with Matthew McConaughey

Get the picture? Next connection:

Reginald Owen (A Christmas Carol – 1938) and Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol – 1999)

[Jeni]

Reginald Owen was in "Mary Poppins" with Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews was in "Relative Values" with Colin Firth
Colin Firth was in "Nanny McPhee" with Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie was in "A Christmas Carol" with Patrick Stewart.

(This was fun!)

Next connection:

Cheech Marin and Chris Pine

[TJ]

Cheech Marin in Tin Cup with Kevin Costner
Costner in Field of Dreams with James Earl Jones
Jones in Hunt for Red October with Alec Baldwin
Baldwin in Rise of the Guardians with Chris Pine

Next...
Clark Gable - Ben Affleck

[TJ]

Next...

Clark Gable - Ben Affleck

[Jeni]

Clark Gable was in "The Misfits" with Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn was in "Some Like It Hot" with Jack Lemmon
Lemmon was in "The Legend of Bagger Vance" with Matt Damon
Damon was in "Good Will Hunting" with Ben Affleck

Next: Walter Matthau and Robin Williams

[TJ]

Walter Mathau was in "Grumpy Old Men" with Ann Margret
Margret was in Old Dogs with Robin Williams

[TJ]

Next...

James Gandolfini - Rock Hudson

[Jeni]

James Gandolfini was in "The Mexican" with Brad Pitt
Pitt was in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" with Angelina Jolie
Jolie was in "Taking Lives" with Ethan Hawke
Hawke was in "Gattaca" with Ernest Borgnine
Borgnine was in "Ice Station Zebra" with Rock Hudson

Next: Charles Bronson and Jim Caviezel

[Kressel]

TJ wrote: "Walter Mathau was in "Grumpy Old Men" with Ann Margret
Margret was in Old Dogs with Robin Williams"

You could have done it in one. They were both in a movie called "The Survivors." (And I see we've veered off the "based on a novel" part of the instructions.)

[TJ]

You're right, we have veered off the based on a novel part. Easy to do when you get into the thread. But it's still fun to do.

[TJ]

Charles Bronson was in "Breakout" with Robert Duval
Duval was in "Open Range" with Kevin Costner
Costner was in "Wyatt Earp" with Jim Caviezel

[TJ]

To get back to movies based on books:

Vivien Leigh from "Gone With The Wind" and Leonardo DiCaprio starring in the new movie "The Great Gatsby.'

[TJ]

To get back to movies based on books:

Vivien Leigh from "Gone With The Wind" and Leonardo DiCaprio starring in the new movie "The Great Gatsby.'