Comment by js2

This isn't true. Here's the guys who invented the game appearing on Jon Stewart in March, 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMn3B4LAP48

They don't mention it on the Stewart performance, but they had just seen Bacon in two films on TV back to back:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-exact-history-o...

Now, maybe they named the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" because it sorta rhymes with "separation", but they didn't pick him to rhyme with the phrase.