The Six Degrees of Separation Game: the concept that we are separated from anyone in the world by six degrees, i.e., knowing someone who knows someone who knows..., etc. Usually played with actor Kevin Bacon, we'll substitute our favorite director. Anyone who has actually met the man can't play, obviously.
Joe Alaskey was a comedian in the Boston comedy club scene in the '80s. He now has a successful Hollywood career as a voice actor in films (
Forrest Gump, animated series, and recreating the voices of the classic Warner Brothers cartoon characters originated by the late Mel Blanc (whose tombstone actually says, "That's All Folks"!
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100.)
I met Joe Alaskey in Boston, but I never knew him well. My flatmate, Welton Barker, however, was friends with him, so that's one or two degrees, depending on how you look at it.
Alaskey starred in his single lead role, that I know of, in a dark comedy about cannibalism, incest, and having guests for Christmas dinner (obvious double entendre there) called
Lucky Stiff (1988.) The film was directed by none other than Anthony Perkins - no surprise, considering the subject matter.
Perkins worked with Russell in, of course,
Crimes of Passion.
So that's my three, or four, degrees. Anyone else want to play?
