Friday, May 17, 2024

Degrees Of Separation

Yesterday I played a version of the Degrees of Separation game. Here are the famous people I have been connected to in various ways (note I left out the lesser known intermediaries):

One Degree

  • Simone Bernard, Director Renens School of Music
  • Andree Juliette Brun, concert pianist
  • Freylon Coffey, Times Beach chemist
  • Erich Fromm, sociologist
  • Vil Mirzayanov, Novichok chemist
  • John Perkins, the Economic Hit Man
  • Hyman Rickover, father of nuclear navy
  • Irwin Shapiro, Harvard astrophysicist
  • George Takei, actor
  • Strom Thurmond, politician

Two Degrees

  • Rudy Bozak, audio pioneer
  • Pat Buchanan, politician
  • Jimmy Carter, US president
  • Salvador Dali, artist
  • Lewis Farrakhan, leader of Nation of Islam
  • Audrey Hepburn, actress
  • Newt Gingrich, politician
  • Aga Kahn IV, imam of Nizari Isma'ilis
  • Walter Lantz, creator of Woody Woodpecker
  • Imelda Marcos, first lady of Philippines
  • Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet statesman
  • Prince Peter II of Yugoslavia
  • Hanna Reitsch, German aviator known as Hitler’s pilot
  • David Rockefeller, globalist banker
  • Andy Rooney, TV personality
  • Frank Sinatra, entertainer
  • Barbara Streisand, entertainer
  • M. Emmet Walsh, actor
  • Andy Warhol, artist
  • Ted Williams, baseball great
  • Steve Wynn, casino mogul

Three Degrees

  • Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader
  • Meir Kahane, extremist rabbi
  • Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader

Somehow, most of them never had a great influence on my life. Easy come, easy go I guess.

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