Interview With Actor Kevin Bacon
SANCHEZ: All right. The Sundance Film Festival might be just the perfect best place to play the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You know the drill -- or at least some of you do. You connect any famous person to the actor within six steps. But Bacon is hoping to turn the game into something much more meaningful. He's joining us now from Park City, Utah, the home of Sundance. You've actually turned this into a way of making money for charity, right?</s>KEVIN BACON, ACTOR: Yes. I started this site sixdegrees.org. And, you know, I acquired the domain a couple years ago and I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do with it, but I knew that the game Six Degrees was not getting me rich. So I figured maybe I would turn it around and try to do something good with it. And we came up with this idea of a place where you could go and look for any kind of charities, any kind of concerns that you had about the world, and we'll direct you to a way to give or volunteer or do whatever you want.</s>SANCHEZ: By the way, I'm looking at you out there and it looks like you're freezing. How cold is it out there? Are you wearing enough clothes?</s>BACON: It's cold. Why couldn't we have a fireside chat?</s>SANCHEZ: I'm feeling your pain.</s>BACON: I got up to your -- I got up to your studio here and I saw the camera out on the balcony, and I said, "You've got to be kidding me."</s>SANCHEZ: We're going to have to have a talk with these guys. All right. Just a couple of questions and then we'll be able to let you go. By the way, do people -- do the stars go on there and find out what their Six degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon is? And are they all playing along?</s>BACON: Well, frankly, I don't think the stars really care, but I've gotten a lot of people who have come on and have charities and causes that are really close to their hearts. And one of the things...</s>SANCHEZ: Like who?</s>BACON: ... that's cool about -- oh, I mean, I've got a really, really long list at this point, and the list is getting longer since we've been at Sundance. But I don't know, you know, everyone from Kanye West, to Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell. I mean, there's a whole bunch of people on there -- Kyra Sedgwick. And you can come on and see what they -- what they care about and the things that are important to them. And you can donate -- donate right at our site. We make it very, very easy to help out.</s>SANCHEZ: So this thing is really taking off. How much money are we talking about at this point?</s>BACON: You know, I don't really know. We have a ticker and I haven't -- I haven't checked it. But it's only been up for about three days. So, you know, whatever we're doing is pretty good.</s>SANCHEZ: By the way, Six Degrees From Kevin Bacon. Or crack staff here decided to figure out one for me. So I think we can put it up now and share it with our viewers if we can.</s>BACON: OK.</s>SANCHEZ: This is the six degrees of separation from me. I'll read it to you as it appears here in just a moment. And it goes something like this -- Rick Sanchez interviewed Fidel Castro, who met Muhammad Ali, was in "When We Were Kings" with Spike Lee, was in "Famous" with Sandra Bullock, was in "Loverboy" with Kevin Bacon. So there you go.</s>BACON: That's great, man.</s>SANCHEZ: So there's my connection to you.</s>BACON: That's fantastic. I mean, we're all connected, let's face it.</s>SANCHEZ: Well, people really have been doing -- way before you caught on, by the way, people were using your name to do this. Why did they choose you? Have you ever gotten a sense of that?</s>BACON: No, I have no idea. I mean, I don't think it's any kind of -- I don't think there's anything special about me. You know, actually, a lot of the scientists and mathematicians have gotten together and figured out that there's a lot more people that are a lot more connected. But, you know, it's just -- it's just this weird thing. And I kind of thought it would go away a long time ago, and it seems to have hung around. And, you know, with sixdegrees.org, I figured maybe I'll just try to do something kind of cool with it and something that, you know, gives a little back. And that's really the idea behind the site.</s>SANCHEZ: All right. Good luck...</s>BACON: Plus, I mean, I -- you know, I sort of feel like if you take me out of the equation, the idea that we're all connected on this planet is kind of a beautiful one. So that's what -- that's what we're here for.</s>SANCHEZ: Couldn't agree with you more. Amen. Appreciate that. Kevin Bacon. You want movie stars? We've got movie stars. There he is. Hey, listen, go get some hot chocolate or something.</s>BACON: Cold, cold movie stars.</s>BACON: Yes, thanks.</s>SANCHEZ: Thanks for being with us. By the way, here's Kevin's Web site. It's sixdegrees.org. He paid money to get that so that he could be able to put the Web site together. To explore it on your own, there you have it, sixdegrees.org. Our very own meteorologist Jacqui Jeras is tracking some of the storms that may cause your Monday travel delays. No doubt she has some kind of connection to Kevin Bacon. And she's going to join us. I see you smiling. She'll be up in just eight minutes.</s>JOAN BRADY, "TECH-NO": People want to be accessible and they want to be interrupted and needed all the time. And I'm just -- I'm the opposite. I like to get away from people and unhook.</s>SANCHEZ: Then unplugged, detached, relax. Some people who are just saying no to modern technology.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, you've got to keep the roommate off my Doritos.</s>SANCHEZ: Do you consider this spot worthy to be shown in a Super Bowl? Well, plug in, and you'll be able, if you stay with us, to check them out.