wasitgood4u said:

BUT rowan was also in Never say Never again.... which had Kim Bassinger in it as well, who... uh, okay, nevermind.... no correlation.

Don't even Google "Chili Sauce preview 3"

Militant said:

Nate dogg is snoop dogg's cousin. Snoop's performed a duet with Mariah Carey on "say something". Mariah has covered "the beautiful ones" by prince.

Next person. Charles Nelson Reilly.
[Edited 9/1/09 20:10pm]

ElCapitan said:

Charles Nelso Reilly
Appeared frequently on the old game show "Match Game" with Nipsey Russell

Who had a starring role in the movie the Wiz with

Michael Jackson who asked Prince to star in his music video "BAd"

Next up

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine was in Bewitched with Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell was on SNL
Prince was the music guest on SNL

You know, if you use SNL, everything is probably like three degrees or less.

Superstition said:

Hey Supersition you forgot your Next...

so if there is somebody out there that's not tired of this shhh yet how about

Betty White

sgmusic said:

Easy
Betty White appeared on the series Boston Legal with
William Shatner who appeared in Hooker with
Heather Locklear who was married to
Tommy Lee who was engaged to
Mayte Garcia who was married to

PRINCE!

Whew.. I didn't think I would make 6 degrees.

Okay, this is fun, next up

Whitney Houston

Tyler Perry to Prince


Tyler Perry directed Why did I get Married starring Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson was in the movie Poetic Justice starring Tupac

Tupac recorded on Death Row Records with Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre's protege was rapper Mac 10

Mac 10 used to be married to T-Boz from TLC

TLC included rapper Rozanda Thomas aka Chili

Chili used to date Prince


voila!!!!

okay that's 7 but 7 is lucky number for Prince and me so again....viola!!!

DesireeNevermind said:

Actually Mack 10 was Ice Cube's protege so you needed another one - Dr. Dre was in the group NWA with Ice Cube.

You forgot to add another one. How about Gene Simmons.

Militant said:

Ahhh good catch.


Gene Simmons is too easy though.
He was in some wack ass movie with Vanity (Never Too Young To Die?) who dated Prince.


I have one for you...

Bill Clinton!!! Gone on...Try.

DesireeNevermind said:

ha ha.
I got this one.

Bill Clinton's vice president was Al Gore who
was college roommate was Tommy Lee Jones who
appeared in movie Men in Black with Will Smith who
appeared in tv show Fresh Prince of Bel Aire produced by
Quincy Jones who also produced
Michael Jackson Thriller album who
asked prince to be in his Bad video

6 degrees!

prodigalfan said:

Bill Clinton's VP was Al Gore
who was married to Tipper Gore
who came down hard on P for lyrics to Darling Nikki which pretty much introduced the "Explicit Lyrics" warning stickers to the world

PsychedelicMama said:

Bravo 2 u both!

And let's not leave out...


Bill Clinton appeared on Arsenio Hall's show back in the day.
Arsenio Hall is friends with Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy had an album produced by Rick James
Prince was once Rick's opening concert act and they both dated Vanity. (also Eddie and Prince are friends)


or


Bill Clinton is married to Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State as appointed by Prez Obama
Prez Obama had Beyonce perform at his innaugural ball
Beyonce performed at the Grammy's with Prince.


Ok. maybe Clinton really was too easy. NPI

PsychedelicMama said:

Ahhhh you burned me! only 2 degrees!

DesireeNevermind said:

ohh, I never thought about the Rick James connection and Eddie Murphy.

I wasn't sure if a single appearance on a tv show would constitute an association but yeah, Clinton was too easy since he was such a media hound during his campaign days.

nyse said:

That seemed like a bit of a cop out. Here's my version:

Pee Wee Herman had the Pee Wee Herman show
Laurence Fishburne was Cowboy Curtis on the Pee Wee Herman Show
Laurence Fishburne starred in Matrix: Revolution with Nona Gaye
Nona Gaye starred with Prince in Love Sign (and dated him around this time)

Se7en said:

very nice... and I did not know that Fishburn was on the Pee Wee show.

prodigalfan said:

ooops, that wasn't my intention Just adding an alternative

PsychedelicMama said:

It's all good. I think this thread is the most fun on the org today.

Ah, I never knew about that movie with Gene Simmons and Vanity. I guess choosing any contemporary musician of the last 30-40 years is going to be an easy one, lol.

Alright, let's pick someone more obscure.

William Shakespeare. (lol)

Militant said:

Easy one!

William Shakespeare wrote 'Romeo & Juliet,' which was remade by
Baz Luhrmann in 1996 with "When Doves Cry" on the soundtrack.
"When Doves Cry" was, of course, written by Prince.

And someone left Whitney Houston dangling earlier:
Whitney Houston covered "I'm Every Woman" by Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan released an album on NPG Records produced
by Prince.

Okay...Franklin Roosevelt. Go!

renfield said:

Well that's pretty easy too.

Franklin Roosevelt was an American president, just like
Barack Obama, who was sung to at his inauguration party by
Beyonce Knowles who at the Grammy Awards in 2004m duetted with
Prince.

My turn again! How about:

Thomas Edison!

Militant said:

having the same job as someone connected to P doesn't count, does it?

^^

Dang! this one will be hard if not impossible.

Militant said:

William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet
Mel Gibson remade Hamlet into a movie in 1990
Prince and Mel Gibson appeared together on The Tonight Show in 2004

prodigalfan said:

co-sign


but then again, I never watched that show.

ElCapitan said:

nope, there needs to be an actual association of one person to another. shit if we include having the same job then errbody up in here has one connection to Prince cuz we shit and fart just like him.

This game was designed to be connected to movies. If you are truly going to play 6 degrees of Prince...play it only connected to his movie roles.

hales said:

actually that's not entirely correct...wasn't designed to be played in connection to movies even though it is mostly played that way. The six degrees premise comes from the Will Smith film "Six Degrees of Separation" in which the main character played by Will and based on a real con artist passing himself off as Sidney Poitier's son, tells his victims how all persons are separated by six degrees, i.e. six other people. The game as we know it originally was based on actor Kevin Beacon who has worked so much in Hollywood that he can be separated from other performers (which included musicians) by six degrees. It has evolved to where anybody can the starting point, you just have to have six other associations to that person.

Example....

Prince to Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds was in "Singin in the Rain" with Gene Kelley
Gene Kelley was in "Zanadu" with Olivia Newton John
Olivia Newton John was in "Grease" with John Travolta
John Travolta was in "The Generals Daughter" with Clarence Williams the III
Clarence Williams the III was in "Purple Rain" with Prince

Movies people...movies

Other great connections are Kristen Scott Thomas and the dad from "Under the Cherry Moon"

DesireeNevermind said:

But the Kevin Bacon game is strictly movie role related...which makes it far more challenging and fun. Anyone can say...Prince brushed up against someone in a hallway...blah, blah, blah. How many can connect Pince in 6 degrees striclty through movie roles. Use the Clarence Williams the III and Kristen Scott Thomas connections and it becomes much easier.