Before I get sued, I should start by saying I have no idea if Kevin Bacon is kinky or not. Instead I had in mind the game named after the eponymous actor, where you try and connect actors and actresses via movies to him. What got me started on this was research for yesterday’s post.
The post itself featured The Spirit, in some artwork created by the artist Darwyn Cooke. Looking him up I discovered that he’d created a series of graphic novels based on Donald Westlake’s (aka Richard Stark) Parker series. I’m a big fan of these books. They’re classic hard boiled American fiction. Raw, exciting and blunt. The first novel, called The Hunter, has been turned into two movies. The rather excellent Point Blank with Lee Marvin and the less good but still entertaining Payback with Mel Gibson. And in that second version, Lucy Liu plays a vicious dominatrix, bringing me all the way back around to femdom again. You can see her longest scene in this clip or a compilation of her scenes here.
Admittedly that’s more a circular connection than anything, but it got me wondering, who would be the kinky equivalent of Kevin Bacon? Who would you pick as the ideal center of the kinky scene to connect everyone to? According to wikipedia Kevin Bacon is himself not the ideal person for the most optimal actor graph. The easiest person to connect changes over time as movies are made, and right now it’s Dennis Hopper, which sounds about right. You want someone who worked with a lot of stars, was around a longtime, and did a wide range of material. So who would you pick for that from the BDSM porn or kink community?
Well, I would suggest Maitresse Maideline from kink.com . She was in a lot of films herself, with a lot of other actors, and she also directs. Kink.com is one of the major bdsm porn producers. There might be other people, but Madeline is hot, so she would be my “Kevin Bacon” of choice.
As far as the rest of your post is concerned:
Wow, I had a thing for Lucy for a long time, but I never knew she had a dominatrix role. Very intriguing.
That’s a pretty good suggestion. She has been a lot of stuff and, as you say, directs others. Although on the same basis, I might be tempted to go for David Acworth, the owner of kink.com. I’m pretty certain he’s been in some of their top floor productions and he gets you a link to every kink.com performer! Of course the rules are a lot trickier for kinky Kevin Bacon – exactly who qualifies as a link in the graph isn’t as clear as it is in the hollywood version.
-paltego