Celebrity Connections!

I'll confess: I like to play association games. Like when my family would play the Name Game on long car rides. Someone would start with a celebrity's name, then we'd have to follow with the name of a famous person whose first name started with the first letter of the preceding person's last name. Complicated? Here's an example:

Dad: Humphrey Bogart.

Mom: Bernadette Peters.

Me: Peter Jackson.

My brother: James Taylor.

My other brother: *gets distracted because he's ADD*

Our parents didn't believe in portable DVD players, so instead we got books like this.

But anyway, you get the point. So now I've found a new game to occupy my time, and it's all thanks to the website Who's Dated Who?

Yes, it is shameless celebrity gossip, but I find myself typing in celebrities at random and clicking from girlfriend to boyfriend trying to get back to the original celebrity, without retracing my steps. It's like an intricate, digital tabloid maze. For instance, I just went from Angelina Jolie to Brad Pitt to Jennifer Aniston to Gerard Butler to Rosario Dawson to Colin Farrell all the way back to Angelina Jolie.

Okay, I know Brangelina was an easy connection, but I had no idea Gerard Butler and Rosario Dawson had had a thing!

I'm performing my own six degrees of separation demonstration, only it's more like six diseases of sexual transmission. Who knows if these celebrities are smart enough to use protection.