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Article: Kevin Bacon Provides Key to Success for Hoboken, N.J., Game Company.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- June 9, 2002
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By Lauren Coleman-Lochner, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 9--In 1996, Endless Games of Hoboken was a tiny newcomer in a land of giants.
Then, it discovered that a movie star's comprehensive career was just the ticket to launch its own 15 minutes of fame.
It all began with three Albright College buddies gazing at Kevin Bacon movies in a bar in Pennsylvania. Riffing on the John Guare play, "Six Degrees of Separation," they invented The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Unlike the loftier goal of the former, which is to connect all of mankind, this game posits that one can link every Hollywood celebrity to Bacon ...