At SXSW, thousands get a Kevin Bacon number of one  Twenty years
later, the game that shows how many connections actors have to
Kevin Bacon is still strong. Bacon showed up at SXSW, perplexed
as to why.  Actor Kevin Bacon, speaking at SXSW Saturday. Daniel
Terdiman/CNET  I now have a Kevin Bacon number of one.
Technically, that's not true. But given that I was in the
audience today, along with at least a thousand other people at
South by Southwest (SXSW), listening to the famous actor talking
about the now 20-year-old Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, I'm
going to stake a claim to a score of one. With an asterisk.  In
1994, after watching a couple Kevin Bacon movies, Brian Turtle,
along with friends Mike Ginelli and Craig Fass, decided to
figure out how many connections it would take to get from actors
like Robert De Niro to Bacon. Before long, their little game
went viral, and countless people knew what a Bacon Number was:
The number of connections between a specific actor and Bacon.
For De Niro, it's one (t