- For the Battlestar Galactica episode, see Six Degrees of Separation (Battlestar Galactica).
Six Degrees of Separation is a 1993 film based on the John Guare play, starring Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland and Will Smith. It explores the premise that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in the world by a chain of only 6 acquaintances (see six degrees of separation). Image File history File links Six_Degrees_of_Separation_film. ...
Frederick Alan Schepisi (born 1939-12-26) is a film director and scriptwriter from Richmond, Victoria, Australia. ...
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John Guare (gwâr) was born February 5, 1938 in New York City and raised in Queens. ...
Stockard Channing press kit photo Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard on February 13, 1944) is an American actress. ...
Will Smith listens intently to a reporters questions at the media scrum for the 2006 Time 100, as covered by vlog Rocketboom. ...
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. ...
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Six Degrees of Separation is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica televison series. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ...
John Guare (gwâr) was born February 5, 1938 in New York City and raised in Queens. ...
Stockard Channing press kit photo Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard on February 13, 1944) is an American actress. ...
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. ...
Will Smith listens intently to a reporters questions at the media scrum for the 2006 Time 100, as covered by vlog Rocketboom. ...
Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. ...
The plot of the movie was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. After the film became a financial success, Hampton unsuccessfully sued for a share of the profits. David Hampton (1964-2003) was an African-American con artist who gained infamy in the 1980s after taking a group of wealthy Manhattanites for thousands of dollars by convincing them he was Sidney Poitiers son. ...
A confidence trick, confidence game, also known as a con, scam, grift or flim flam, is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ...
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Sidney Poitier Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor. ...
One of the most disturbing, yet provocative, themes in the film is its assertion that the ultra-rich privileged members of American society, at least in New York, live right next to people who are dirt poor and frequently victims of violent crime. In order to forget about these unpleasant aspects of modern urban life, the rich concentrate their considerable free time on collecting and discussing art and show little to no interest in any of the millions of people living in their city who are not members of their privileged class. Equally disturbing is how easily Smith is able to make his audience believe that he is the son of Sidney Poitier and, later, that they desperately want to earn the respect of their (ungrateful) children, or, more humorously, that they could so desperately want to have small roles in a film version of Cats. Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens violent force upon the victim. ...
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The film features walk-ons by a number of New York society types inluding Kitty Carlisle Hart and the artist Chuck Close. Kitty Carlisle in Die Fledermaus, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Kitty Carlisle Hart (b. ...
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- "I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find that extremely comforting, that we're so close, but I also find it like Chinese water torture that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the connection. It's not just big names -- it's anyone. A native in a rain forest, a Tiero del Fuegan, an Eskimo. I am bound -- you are bound -- to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people. It's a profound thought -- how Paul found us, how to find the man whose son he claims to be, or perhaps is, although I doubt it. How everyone is a new door, opening into other worlds."
- character Ouisa Kittredge
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Stockard Channing press kit photo Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard on February 13, 1944) is an American actress. ...
Will Smith listens intently to a reporters questions at the media scrum for the 2006 Time 100, as covered by vlog Rocketboom. ...
Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. ...
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE, (born May 25, 1939) is a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ...
Mary Beth Hurt (born Mary Supinger on September 26, 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa) is an actress who was married to Oscar-winning actor William Hurt from 1971 to 1981. ...
Davison as Senator Robert Kelly in X-Men Bruce Davison (born June 28, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ...
Richard Masur (born 20 November 1948, New York, New York) is an actor who has starred in over 80 movies during his career. ...
Anthony Michael Hall Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall (born April 14, 1968 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts) is a U.S. movie actor who became famous playing a nerd in several successful, teenage Brat Pack films of the 1980s. ...
Heather Graham on the cover of Life magazine Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film and television actress. ...
Anthony Dean Rapp is an American stage and film actor. ...
Catherine Kellner (born on 2 October 1970 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actress. ...
Jeffrey J. Abrams (usually credited as Jeffrey Abrams or J.J. Abrams) (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, writer, actor, composer and director. ...
Jeffrey J. Abrams (usually credited as Jeffrey Abrams or J.J. Abrams) (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, writer, actor, composer and director. ...
See also The small world phenomenon (also known as the small world effect) is the hypothesis that everyone in the world can be reached through a short chain of social acquaintances. ...
The trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, inspired by the stage play Six Degrees of Separation, requires a group of players to connect any film actor to Kevin Bacon as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible (see Small World Phenomenon). ...
The Erdős number, honouring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers, is a way of describing the collaborative distance, in regard to mathematical papers, between an author and Erdős. ...
31 Days of Oscar is a programming franchise aired each Oscar season by the U.S. Turner Classic Movies cable network during the month of the Academy Awards. ...
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