Six Degrees of Ego-Separation

I'm sure some of you have heard about or even played that game, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". It started with the belief that all actors can be linked by tracing their co-stars back to Kevin Bacon, you know from "Footloose". Confused? Here's an example...
Let's pick some obscure actor like... Curtis Armstrong from "Revenge of the Nerds", fondly remembered as "Booger".

Booger(1) was in "One Crazy Summer" with John Cusack(2),
who was in "Runaway Jury" with Dustin Hoffman(3),
who was in "Rain Man" with Tom Cruise(4),
who was in "Cocktail" with Elizabeth Shue(5),
who was in "Hollow Man" with... Kevin Bacon(6).

See? Simple. If you know your movie history or know people who do (my sisters and Mike Chase are excellent choices), you should give it a shot. I decided to go for the ultimate ego-boost and take it a step further and use my name. Is that possible, you ask? Since my acting chops have only taken me as high as the worst theatrical production in Prince Georges Community College history, how the hell could I possibly use my own name?

Well, if you watch CSI, than there's the connection. Archie Kao plays the computer expert "Archie" (creative, huh?) on "CSI", the most watched show on TV. I went to George Mason with Archie Kao in 1991-92. We were in the same fraternity. He was Student Council President and Homecoming King. We shared an acting class my second semester. I went down with him and some other friends to Daytona Beach for spring break. Played frisbee all day, that week in March and he tutored me on how to talk to women. Well, he left for L.A. that summer to become an actor and now he is on the 2nd best show on TV (Battlestar Gallactica being #1, of course). Pretty cool, don't you think? Archie got his big break when he played the Blue Ranger on the "Power Rangers" in the late 90's. Archie also was in some forgetful movie with Mark Harmon I happened to catch late one night on cable. I don't know what the name of that cinematic masterpiece was, but it was about surfers and luckily I only caught the last 10 minutes of it.

I know a dude who is a supporting cast-member on a great TV show; he was a fracking Power Ranger, and has been in some other stuff we might have seen. So, when a friend one night suggested we try to do the Kevin Bacon game, I had an idea. She knew Archie from "CSI". I told her of my acting gigs from high school and college. We figured out a way to only use actors. Community College theater is acting, folks. My friend said so. I qualify to use my own name in the game.
With that in mind, here we go...

John Murray(1)--went to college with Archie Kao(2)
Who is on "CSI" with Marg Helgenberg(3)
Who was in "Species" with Forest Whittaker(4)
Who was in "Phenomenon" with Kyra Sedgwick(5)...
Who is married to Kevin Bacon!(6)
(Sedgwick and Bacon have been in a few movies together, but being married to the guy has to count for bonus points, right?)

So there it is! I'm practically famous! Thanks to my friend Archie, who seems to have done well out in Tinseltown. "CSI", the movie "Local Boys" with Mark Harmon... Small world, huh? I can say my friend was a Power Ranger! How cool is that?