Letter: Ubiquitous Varney

From Peter Hamer

Maewyn Cummings reports that a major film buff was unable to link Reg Varney
with Kevin Bacon
(Letters, 4 July, p 54).

The “Oracle of Bacon at Virginia” (http://www.cs.
virginia.edu/~bct7m/bacon. html) gives him a Bacon number of three.

Reg Varney was in The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery (1966) with
George Cole; George Cole was in Mary Reilly (1996) with Julia Roberts;
Julia Roberts was in Flatliners (1990) with Kevin Bacon.

It remains a surprisingly small world.

P.G.Hamer@nortel.co.uk