Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - To listen to the Obama camp and the liberal media, the anti-Obamacare protesters at last month’s town halls are a grave threat to our way of life, Mary Katharine Harn writes in the Weekly Standard. But “the climate of paranoia and violence that enveloped our political system... More »

MORE ABOUT:
violence • Kevin Bacon • health care reform • town hall meeting • protesters • conservatives • Obama administration • President Obama • Footloose • progressives

(Newser) - A brazen Manhattan subway thug swiped actor Kevin Bacon's Blackberry, likely packed with phone numbers of his A-list celebrity pals, reports the New York Post. Bacon gave chase, but the thief maneuvered through the crowd at a midtown subway station to freedom. Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, are no... More »

MORE ABOUT:
entertainment • crime • Manhattan • theft • BlackBerry • Kevin Bacon • New York City Subway • Kyra Sedgwick

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Lead to Madoff

Actor, wife Kyra Sedgwick lost money
in Ponzi scheme

Dec 30, 08 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - It turns out Kevin Bacon didn’t put enough degrees between himself and Bernie Madoff. Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick join Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg on the list of Hollywood denizens duped by the Ponzi schemer, Bacon’s rep confirmed to New York magazine. Rumor has... More »

MORE ABOUT:
fraud • Kevin Bacon • Ponzi scheme • six degrees of separation • Bernard Madoff • recession depression

Aussie Feces Fracas Drags Bacon's Name Down Under

Squabble falls within
6 degrees of culprit

Oct 28, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - No, actor Kevin Bacon did not poop in anyone’s ice cream, reports Australia's Age. That we know of. But Stephen and Jessica Whyte insist someone put human feces in the gelato they were served at a Sydney hotel. Newspapers noticed that the Whytes have ties to a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Australia • Sydney • Kevin Bacon • ice cream • poop

'70s Vigilantes Take '07 in Hands

New slate of vigilante films in era that
mirrors '70s anxiety

Sep 14, 07 6:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Our era of economic upheaval and political powerlessness mirrors that of the 1970s, and now we’re getting our own silver screen vigilantes to clean up the mess. Everyman killers like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle took action when the system wouldn’t, says Slate, and this season “vengeance... More »

MORE ABOUT:
film • death sentence • Brave One • Kevin Bacon • Jodie Foster • Taxi Driver • death wish • Dirty Harry • vigilante justice • movies

5 Stories


from our news partners