Though Kevin Bacon may not be the kind of star that can open a movie, he is enough of a cultural phenomenon to have inspired the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" parlor game, whose creators guaranteed that anyone in Hollywood in the past fifteen years could be linked to the versatile actor in six strokes or less. With the support of his parents, he ventured to NYC at age 17 and became the youngest apprentice at Circle in the Square, embarking on a stage career that would see him win an OBIE before the age of 25 and perform on Broadway opposite Sean Penn in "The Slab Boys" (1983). Bacon made his