h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Don't know if this has been done here before but it doesn't appear to have been done recently so....

It's a kind of variation on the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game.

You think of 2 film stars, and (with varying degrees) you have to link them together, via other actors they've appeared alongside. That's a rubbish explanation so I'll give an example:

Link Sean Connery and Brad Pitt.

Sean Connery & Kevin Costner in Untouchables
Kevin Costner & Morgan Freeman in Robin Hood
Morgan Freeman & Brad Pitt in Seven.

Obviously you can make it harder by using more people to link them, but lets start with 2

(and there's probably more than one way you can do many of them, so you have to get the one the person asking was thinking of)

so...

Jack Nicholson and Sigourney Weaver

Ahhhh...6 Degrees of Separation! I LOVE this game. Used to play it all the time with the family as a kid. :D

Here's one answer (not sure if it's the shortest)

Jack Nicholson to Adam Sandler in "Anger Management"
Adam Sandler to Winona Ryder in "Mr. Deeds"
Winona Ryder to Sigourney Weaver in "Alien Resurrection"

Here a new one:

Marilyn Monroe to Rowan Atkinson



Myjo

Marylin Monroe and Jack Lemmon (Some Like it Hot)

Jack lemmon and Gary Oldman (JFK)

Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal)

Anthony Hopkins and Dan Hedaya (Nixon)

Dan Hedaya and Anjelica Huston (Addam's Family)

Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson (Roald Dahl's The Witches.)



I thank you.


Now..lemme see.



Scott Glenn to Joan Cussack. (It can be done, I just checked.

I can do Atkinson -> Monroe in fewer steps. Took me a while to put it all together, though...

Rowan Atkinson with Seth Green in Rat Race
Seth Green with Robert Wagner in the Austin Powers movies
Robert Wagner with Bing Crosby in Say One For Me (1959)
Bing Crosby with Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960)

A tip for the future... Robert Wagner is one of those ultimately useful guys to link up old actors with new ones.

Who the hell is Scott Glenn?

oh alright then....


Arnold Schwarzenegger to Joan Cussack

Arnold Schwarzenegger to Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies)

Jamie Lee Curtis to Kevin Kline (Fish Called Wanda)

Kevin Kline to Joan Cusack (In & Out)

I've never played before, that is *fun*

Clint Eastwood to Heather Graham.

Whew! I'm out of practice. There has GOT to be a shorter path than this, but here you go:

Heather Graham to Mike Meyers in "Austin Powers II"
Mike Meyers to Amanda Plummer in "So I Married an Axe Murderer"
Amanda Plummer to Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction"
Uma Thurman to John Malkovich in "Dangerous Liaisons"
John Malkovich to Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire"

New one:

Toby McGuire to Sean Patrick Flanery



Myjo

Clint Eastwood with Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Gene Hackman with Orlando Jones in The Replacements
Orlando Jones with Heather Graham in Say It Isn't So

Next challenge... Sharon Stone to Sally Field

Doh! Simulpost. I'll see what I can do about the McGwire link...

That one wasn't too hard...

Sean Patrick Flanery with Tara Reid in Body Shots
Tara Reid with Reese Witherspoon in Cruel Intentions
Reese Witherspoon with Toby McGuire in Pleasantville

That leaves my previous challenge... Sharon Stone and Sally Field

Okay, here goes:

Sharon Stone to Michael Douglas in "Basic Instinct"
Michael Douglas to Sean Penn in "The Game"
Sean Penn to Robin Wright Penn in "She's So Lovely"
Robin Wright Penn to Sally Field in "Forrest Gump"

New one:

Orlando Bloom to Richard Harris



Myjo

That's a pretty interesting one, since it gives us the opportunity to link the two biggest fantasy movies ever. And here's the link:

Orlando Bloom with Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in "Lord of the Rings" (all of them)
Ian McKellen with Maggie Smith in "Richard III"
Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall) with Richard Harris in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (and Chamber of Secrets)

It took me about 2 minutes to put together. I knew there'd be a Shakespeare link, since British actors don't feel like they're actors unless they've done something of Shakespeare's.

Variation on the theme... Mark Hamill to William Shatner

ahhhh, I love this game!

There's probably a quicker way to do this, but:

Mark Hamill to Carrie Fisher in Star Wars
Carrie Fisher to Meg Ryan in When Harry met Sally
Meg Ryan to Hugh Jackman in Kate and Leopold
Hugh Jackman to Patrick Stewart in X-Men
Patrick Stewart to William Shatner in Star Trek: Generations


Alec Guiness to Tom Hanks

You gotta love it when you come up with a Kevin Bacon link:

Alec Guiness with Harrison Ford in "Star Wars - A New Hope"
Harrison Ford with Alec Baldwin in "Working Girl"
Alec Baldwin with Kevin Bacon in "She's Having a Baby"
Kevin Bacon with Tom Hanks in "Apollo 13"

Here's a cool one... Kate Hudson to her mom, Goldie Hawn

somehow, at the beginning of that I kept getting stuck and the only way to go was Steven Spielberg. I don't know how - but anyway - can we link through directors?

But here we go:

Kate Hudson to Billy Crudup in Almost Famous
Billy Crudup to Minnie Driver in Sleepers
Minnie Driver to Alan Arkin in Grosse Pointe Blank
Alan Arkin to Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross
Al Pacino to Diane Keaton in The Godfather
Diane Keaton to Goldie Hawn in First Wives club

A quicker version is Hudson to Jason Lee in Almost Famous
Jason Lee to Kurt Russell in Vanilla Sky
and Kurt Russell to Goldie Hawn in something called Overboard, which I'd never heard of before...

Penelope Cruz to Terence Stamp
should be fun

Overboard was a very funny movie in which Goldie Hawn played a rich, snobby type who had fallen overboard from her boyfriend's yacht. She was rescued by single father and poor white trash Kurt Russell. When he discovered Goldie's character had suffered amnesia in the accident, he convinced her that she was his wife, and his bratty kids were her children.

It's quite ironic for you to link Kate to Goldie through Kurt... Kurt is her father.

Onwards...

Penelope Cruz to Tom Cruise in "Vanilla Sky"
Tom Cruise to Val Kilmer in "Top Gun"
Val Kilmer to Terence Stamp in "Red Planet"

Next up: Jack Nicholson to James Garner

Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
Faye Dunaway & Gene Hackman - Bonnie & Clyde
Gene Hackman & Clint Eastwood - Absolute Power
Clint Eastwood & James Garner - Space Cowboys

Ahem!

What's the next challenge?

Sorry. Let's see. It will probably be easy. Ed Harris to Judy Dench.

Ed Harris and Sean Connery (The Rock)
Sean Connery and Desmond Llewellyn (Goldfinger et al)
Desmond Llewellyn and Judi Dench (Goldeneye and the other one...)

Winona Ryder and Judy Garland.

H.