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Article: FOR KEVIN BACON, ACTING TRUMPS PUBLIC PERSONA.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- October 16, 2004
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Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
Tonight the Starz Denver International Film Festival becomes an actor's showcase as Kevin Bacon receives the John Cassavetes Award.
The award began in 1990 as way of honoring directors and actors who have made a substantial contribution to the world of independent film. Bacon made his first big-screen appearance as a frat boy in National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978. He has worked steadily ever since and has appeared in more than 40 movies, playing both lead and supporting roles.
As critic David Thomson wrote in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film: "Kevin Bacon has been too good too often to ...