Six Degrees of Separation

Like Will Smith.

Do y'all remember his first role? Six Degrees of Separation.

What was y'all first Will Smith movie that y'all seen? That was your first

one?

I was Google at the time.

I remember my friends watched Six Degrees of Separation.

They were like, what the fuck did we just watch? Call Melissa.

She'll be able to dissect this because I'm also like this little bit of a cinephile.

I am 99.9% sure that I know of whom you speak.

We've all heard this term over our lives, especially since the Will Smith movie, Six Degrees of Separation.

And I'm convinced the more time I spend, especially in our city of 540,000 or whether I'm in one of the other 48 states or 33 countries, There's not six degrees of separation.

I've known you for several years, but you've known that person for a lot longer than that.

But I've known that person.

And we'll get into that in a little bit.

But also, like, this Oscars, the acting category... stacked crazy stacked like i'm just gonna like read off these names because it's insane okay best actor tom hanks won uh for philadelphia but it's tom hanks for philadelphia daniel day lewis for in the name of the father laurence fishburne for what's love got to do with it anthony hopkins for the remains of the day and liam neeson for schindler's list then actress Holly Hunter for the piano, Angela Bassett for what's love got to do with it, Stockard Channing for Six Degrees of Separation, Emma Thompson for The Remains of the Day, and Debra Winger for Shadowlands.

Actor and supporting role, Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, Leonardo DiCaprio for What's Eating, Gilbert Grape, Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, John Malkovich in The Line of Fire, Pete Possilthwaite in The Name of the Father.

uh actors in the supporting role anna pack pack when the piano holly hunter for the firm rosie perez for fearless renown winona rider for the age of innocence and emma thompson for in the name of the father which is like just so crazy but um and holly hunter nominated twice so

Yeah, so I got the idea for that song.

I was watching a movie called Six Degrees of Separation with Will Smith and Stalker Channing, and I can't remember exactly...

the scene but there's a scene in that movie where Donald Sutherland takes this painting off of an easel and he's talking about it and it's a two-sided painting and he flips it back and forth and he goes see chaos control chaos control and I just thought that was a really interesting idea that one thing could be both chaos and control And so that's kind of where the idea for the song came from.

I wrote that down just in my notes and had it for a while and then sat down one night and that was one of the very rare songs that came kind of all at once and just as it was.

He originated the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of Rent.

He played Charlie Brown in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and he was in the movies Beautiful Mind, School Ties, Road Trip, and Six Degrees of Separation, and he had a starring role in Star Trek Discovery.

His bully film, he was in Dazed and Confused, set on the last day of school.

High school seniors ruthlessly haze incoming freshmen.

And I kind of want to live in the mystery right now because I think that'll be more fun.

But he also directed the Six Degrees of Separation movie that I love so, so, so much.

and also there was another one too

Roxanne I think is an interesting one that we should do at some point because I've always wanted us to do an 80s Steve Martin movie because there's actually a few of