Former IRS examiner John Snyder isn’t an actor, but it takes less than six links to tie him to Kevin Bacon.
Paul Caron of TaxProf Blog posted today that John Snyder, the IRS examiner who had taken peeks at the federal income tax returns of celebrity Kevin Bacon and hundreds of other celebrities, was sentenced to three years’ probation, sixty hours of community service and a $1,000 fine.
See TaxProf Blog’s original article on Snyder-the-Snooper titled IRS Service Center Employee Snoops on Tax Records of 200 Celebrities.
Wikepedia’s entry on “six degrees of separation” says that it refers to the idea,
[T]hat if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is an average of six “steps” away from each person on Earth.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game.
[B]ased on the concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon. The game requires a group of players to try to connect any film actor in history to Kevin Bacon as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible.
Frankly, I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who knows Kevin Bacon . . . but I did see the movie Diner three times.
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1 taxgirl’s Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon // Sep 6, 2008 at 10:50 am
[...] thought I’d offer my pop culture-laden response to the Tax Lawyer’s post where he says: Frankly, I don’t know anyone who knows anyone who knows Kevin Bacon . . . but I did see the [...]
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