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- <string>Kevin Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
+ <string>Ricky Hui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
-Kevin Bacon
+Ricky Hui
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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-For other uses, see Kevin Bacon (disambiguation) .
-Kevin Bacon
-Born Kevin Norwood Bacon
-July 8, 1958 ( 1958-07-08 ) (age�51)
-Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States
-Occupation Actor
-Years active 1978–present
-Spouse(s) Kyra Sedgwick (1988–present)
-Official website
+Ricky Hui
+Chinese name 許冠英 ( Traditional )
+Chinese name 许冠英 ( Simplified )
+Pinyin Xǔ Guànyīng ( Mandarin )
+Jyutping heoi2 gun3 jing1 ( Cantonese )
+Ancestry Panyu , Guangdong
+Origin Hong Kong
+Born ( 1946-08-03 ) August 3, 1946
+Panyu , Guangdong
+Died November 8, 2011 ( 2011-11-08 ) (aged 65)
+Hong Kong
+Occupation Actor, singer
+Genre(s) Cantopop
+Years active 1972–2011
+Parents Hui Sai Cheung (father)
+Lee See Wun (mother)
-Kevin Norwood Bacon [ 1 ] (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater
actor whose notable roles include Footloose , Flatliners , A Few Good Men ,
Apollo 13 , Mystic River , The Woodsman , Friday the 13th , Hollow Man , and
Tremors .
-
-Bacon has been nominated for Emmy , Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild
Awards [ 2 ] and has been called one of the best actors to never receive an
Oscar nomination. [ 3 ]
+Ricky Hui Koon-Ying (August 3, 1946 – November 8, 2011) ( Chinese : 許冠英 ) was
a Hong Kong movie star. He and his brothers, Michael and Sam , made several
comedy blockbusters in the 1970s and 1980s.
Contents
-1 Biography 1.1 Early life and career
-1.2 Acclaim and success
-1.3 Career slump
-1.4 Comeback
-1.5 Continuing success
-1.6 Personal life
-1.7 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
-1.8 Music
+1 Biography 1.1 Films
+1.2 Music
-2 Filmography 2.1 Films
-2.2 Television
-
-3 Awards
+2 Death
+3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links
-[ edit ] Biography
-[ edit ] Early life and career
+Biography [ edit ]
-Bacon, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in a close-knit
family in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. A former Park Avenue debutante, [
citation needed ] his mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes; 1916–1991), taught
elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Bacon ,
was a well-respected architect. At 16, Bacon attended the Pennsylvania
Governors School for the Arts, an invaluable state-funded five-week arts
program which helped solidify Bacon's passion for the arts. From there,
Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York, where he was
one of the youngest students ever admitted, and the youngest student to appear
in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School . "I wanted
life, man, the real thing", he later recalled to Nancy Mills of
Cosmopolitan . "The message I got was 'The arts are it. Business is
the devil's work. Art and creative expression are next to godliness.'
Combine that with an immense ego and you wind up with an actor." [ 4 ]
+Ricky Hui Koon Ying was born August 3, 1946 in Panyu , Guangdong , China . He
has four siblings, Samuel, Michael, Stanley and Judy. The Hui family migrated
from mainland China to Hong Kong in 1950 and settled in the then poor area of
Diamond Hill . His father worked hard and undertook any work available to be
able to support his family. In the Hui family Arts played a very significant
role. Ricky's father played the violin and his mother loved Cantonese opera .
+Films [ edit ]
-Bacon's decision to become an actor did not come without pressures.
Describing his father to Mills as a "city-planning superstar", he set
very high goals for himself because he "felt nothing less than stardom
would be enough." [ 4 ] However, his movie debut in the fraternity comedy
Animal House in 1978 did not lead to the instant fame for which he had hoped,
and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in
theater. He did a couple of stints on television soap operas Search For
Tomorrow (1979) and The Guiding Light (1980–81) in New York while waiting for
larger roles to come along. He refused an offer of a television series based on
Animal House to be filmed in California in order to remain close to the New
York stage. Some of his early stage work included Getting Out performed at New
York's Phoenix Theater , and Flux which he did at Second Stage Theatre
during their 1981–1982 season.
+Ricky worked as a correspondent for the French Press Agency in Hong Kong. He
also frequently appeared in Shaw Brothers films between 1972 and 1976, such as
The Lizard (1972), The 14 Amazons (1972), The Sugar Daddies (1973), The
Generation Gap (1973), Rivals of Kung Fu (1974), Hong Kong 73 (1974) etc. For
him the big break came when he joined his brothers on screen.
-His motivation to remain in New York still has resonance for Bacon. "I
think my decision had a lot to do with just being afraid" he explained to
Chase in Cosmopolitan . " L.A. scared me. I call it the city of fear. I
get scared when I land, and I live in fear there, and I think a lot of people
do. I mean, I've had a hard time in New York City too, but aesthetically
and spiritually, I'm an East Coast person." [ 5 ] With the support of
his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick , Bacon believes that he has come to terms with
his qualms about Los Angeles , thus strengthening his commitment to acting.
"Our lives are still crazy, we still spend a ton of time out [in L.A.],
and I've finally admitted that the movie business means a lot to me",
he told Chase. "I used to say, it's okay, I can do it, but it
isn't that important, and then I realized I was out of my mind; this is
what I do for a living." [ 5 ]
-[ edit ] Acclaim and success
+The first time was in Games Gamblers Play (1974) as a card player followed by
The Last Message (1975) with a short appearance as a waiter. The dialogue
between him and Sam's character is hilarious. Ricky got a slightly bigger role
in The Private Eyes (1976) and with that film a new era of the Hong Kong Cinema
started. The brothers together made the best comedies the Hong Kong film
industry has ever seen. Their films were packed with visual gags and the unique
Cantonese humor. Although Ricky had only a small role in The Private Eyes , it
remained one of the all time favorites among fans. According to Michael Hui,
Ricky had only brief appearance in this film because at that time he had a
contract with Shaw Brothers . Sources believe that contract ended around 1976,
because the last Shaw Brothers film he appeared in was Challenge of the Masters
that year. The following year found Ricky at Golden Harvest with a leading role
in John Woo 's Money Crazy . In 1979 Games Gamblers Play was released for the
Japanese market. For this edition Michael shot a new scene, a fight between
Ricky and Sam on the beach, and replaced the original Sammo Hung vs Sam Hui
fight with it. The next Hui brothers production where Ricky teamed up with his
brothers again was The Contract in 1978, followed by Security Unlimited (1981),
one of the biggest success of the brothers, full of gags and their trademark
Cantonese humor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Ricky played leading roles
in John Woo films like From Riches To Rags (1979), To Hell with the Devil
(1982) or Plain Jane To The Rescue (1982).
-Known for having what Entertainment Weekly called "bone-dry humor and
[an] average-Joe ability to tell it like it is", [ 6 ] Bacon has always
been forthcoming about his lack of professional self-confidence, which has
never stopped him from delivering powerful performances. His charm and style
earned him the nick-name "The Baconator" which only his fans and
friends recognize him by. In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in
Forty-Deuce , a play about street hustlers, and soon after made his Broadway
debut in Slab Boys , with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer . However, it
was not until he portrayed Timothy Fenwick that same year in Barry Levinson
's Diner �– costarring Steve Guttenberg , Daniel Stern , Mickey Rourke ,
Tim Daly and Ellen Barkin �– that he made an indelible impression on film
critics and moviegoers alike. [ citation needed ] Set in Baltimore during
Christmas week of 1959, Diner depicts the lives of nine young men in their
early twenties who have been close friends since childhood but are gradually
moving in different directions. By far the most aimless of the group, the
surly, sarcastic Fenwick gets increasingly drunk as the story progresses,
deriving great pleasure from playing practical jokes on his friends and
outanswering contestants on the television quiz show College Bowl from the
safety of his sofa. The New Yorker 's Pauline Kael , who included
Bacon's name on her list of the film's "amazing"
performances, also noted that "with his pointed chin, and the look of a
mad Mick , [he] keeps Fenwick morose and yet demonic ." David Denby of The
New Yorker found Fenwick "both attractive and creepily self-destructive
", attributing much of Diner' s success to the fact that it
"offers a completed vision of life, ecstatic in its recovery of forgotten
pleasures, melancholy in its knowledge of how small a chance these men ever had
of reclaiming their freedom." [ 7 ]
+Michael became a producer in 1987 and Ricky appeared in his films: Chicken and
Duck Talk (1988), Front Page (1990), The Magic Touch (1992). In 1985 Sammo Hung
produced one of the biggest cult films Mr. Vampire where Ricky Hui played Man
Choi, a memorable role on the side of the unforgettable ( Lam Ching Ying ).
-Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner , Bacon
starred in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose . Directed by Herbert Ross and
packed with energetic musical dance sequences, the film tells the story of Ren
McCormick, a streetwise Chicago teenager (Bacon was actually 24 years old when
filming began) who, after moving with his mother to a repressive small town in
the Midwest , is determined to reverse the town minister's ban on
rock-and-roll made years earlier. Richard Corliss of Time likened Footloose to
the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy
Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes "motifs on book
burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement,
and Bible Belt vigilantism." [ 8 ] Part of the conflict centers around the
relationship between the minister, played by John Lithgow , and his wild
teenage daughter, played by Lori Singer , who falls in love with Bacon's
character and joins forces with him to put on a dance in a neighboring town. To
prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student
named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the
middle of the day. [ citation needed ] Sporting a punk haircut for the role and
a rebellious James Dean-type attitude somewhat different than that of the
Fenwick character in Diner , Bacon did earn strong reviews for Footloose ,
appearing on the cover of People magazine soon after its release. [ citation
needed ] David Ansen of Newsweek noted that Footloose "works because Bacon
[is] always a fine actor," while Corliss found his performance to be
"smart and appealing". [ 8 ] The film itself, wrote Ansen, "has
a lively, sweet infectious spirit," providing a "jolt of disposable
but pleasant energy that makes you want to roll back the rug and boogie."
[ cite this quote ]
-[ edit ] Career slump
+Ricky was most active in his film career in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late
1990s he appeared in only one film, in First Love Unlimited (1997). He later
rejoined with his brother Sam Hui in Winner Takes All (2000). The last films
Ricky Hui appeared in are Super Model and Forever Yours , both from 2004.
+Music [ edit ]
-Bacon's long-awaited exposure from these two films proved a mixed
blessing, however: he found himself typecast as the characters he portrayed in
the films Diner and Footloose . Bacon would have difficulty shaking this
on-screen image. His portrayal of Fenwick, Bacon explained to Mills in
Cosmopolitan , "made enough of an impact that it was very difficult for me
to get a lead in a movie. The perception was that I was incapable of being
heroic, that I was offbeat, dark, nutty, and messed up." [ cite this quote
] Nor did he welcome the teen-idol image that Footloose offered him, shunning
other chances to play what he deemed "angst-ridden teenagers". [ cite
this quote ] For the next several years Bacon chose films that cast him against
either type and experienced, by his own estimation, a career slump. In 1988 he
portrayed a newlywed who, ambivalent about marriage, faces the added burden of
impending fatherhood in John Hughes 's comedy She's Having a Baby ,
costarring Elizabeth McGovern . The next year he starred in a Christopher Guest
comedy called The Big Picture , playing a film student whose excessive pride
leads to trouble after achieving instant Hollywood fame as a filmmaker. While
The Nation found little else redeeming about the movie, it did comment on
Bacon's "perfect face and unfailing charm as Nick", noting the
actor's ability to "play just about anything". [ cite this quote
]
+Ricky is not only an actor but a very good singer, too. He has released seven
albums, most of them on vinyl in the 1970s and 1980s. There are three Ricky
albums on vinyl: 發錢寒 (1977), 夏之戀 (1978), 錢作怪 (1980). In 1993 '93 急流? was
released, which featured new songs by Sam Hui and guest vocals from Michael Hui
. The second album in 1993 was 一生渴望 (Lifelong Desire) a 2-CD set that featured
one CD of hits from the 1970s and 1980s, and brand-new Mandarin recordings of
songs from '93 急流?. It also paved the way for Ricky's 2 shows at the Hong Kong
Coliseum (produced by Sam Hui). The third CD was released in 2001, called The
Classical Songs of Universal. It is the re-released version of the album from
1980 with a few extra songs. The last, Greatest Hits album (2CDs), 十足斤兩, was
released ony July 26, 2006.
-In 1990, Bacon had two successful roles. He played a character who saved his
town from under-the-earth "graboid" monsters in the comedy/horror
film Tremors �– a role that People found him "far too accomplished" [
cite this quote ] to play�– and portrayed an earnest medical student
experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher 's Flatliners .
+Ricky not only sings but also wrote some songs for his brother Sam: On Sam
Hui's debut Cantonese album, Ricky wrote 3 complete songs (music and lyrics):
Track 3 (甜蜜伴侶), track 4 (無情夜冷風), and track 11 (夜雨聲). On Sam's 2nd Cantonese
album, Ricky contributed 2 songs: track 5 (情人離別去), track 10 (歡樂桃源), and track
11 (故苑懷舊). On Sam's 3rd Cantonese album, Ricky has one contribution: track 12
(流水恨). He also wrote a song that can only be heard on his own debut album in
1977: 月影.
-Bacon's next project was to star, opposite Elizabeth Perkins , in the
1991 romantic comedy He Said, She Said , codirected by Ken Kwapis and Marisa
Silver . As clashing newspaper reporters who are forced to write a column
together, the two fall in love. The film's story is told in two parts:
first from the viewpoint of Bacon's character, which Kwapis directed, and
then from the viewpoint of Perkins's character, directed by Silver.
Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, He Said, She Said was
illuminating for Bacon. Required to play a character with sexist attitudes, he
admitted that the role was not that large a stretch for him. "Until he
meets Elizabeth, he sees women as sex objects...not people to respect or share
your life with," he told Mills. "But he changes when he falls in love
with the strongest woman he could possibly find. In some ways, this character
is like me. What he's going through is maybe something I was going through
ten or twelve years ago." [ cite this quote ] After completion of He Said,
She Said , Perkins had nothing but praise for her costar both on and off
screen. "When Kevin first came on the set, I thought he was one of those
actors who just breezes in and doesn't need to prepare for a scene. After
a couple weeks, I realized that he does his homework, is extremely [focused],
and never misses a beat," she remarked in Cosmopolitan . "What you
assume is not always the truth about Kevin. He can come off as suave, and
people may mistake it for arrogance. But underneath, he's very
compassionate and kindhearted." [ cite this quote ]
-[ edit ] Comeback
+In 2000 Ricky had a stage play called Ha Luk Hei Ban. In the same year he
appeared in five episodes of the ATV series Heung Gong Yat Ka Chun . In 2001 a
DVD was released of a variety show about the development of Hong Kong
entertainment, called Laughing Kaleidoscope which featured Ricky among various
artists on stage. In the same year he participated with three songs in the La
Fai Palace Jubilee concert. In 2003 Ricky appeared in a concert commemorating
the 8th anniversary of the death of Teresa Teng Lai-Kwun and also celebrating
her 50th birthday. Ricky participated with three songs in Sing Along Golden
Hits Encore Concert in 2004 among other stars. He appeared in the Rosanne in
Starry Night Concert in March, 2006.
-By 1991, Bacon began to give up the idea of playing leading men in big-budget
films and to remake himself as a character actor. "The only way I was
going to be able to work on 'A' projects with really 'A'
directors was if I wasn't the guy who was starring", he confided to
The New York Times writer Trip Gabriel. "You can't afford to set up a
$40 million movie if you don't have your star." [ 9 ]
+Ricky is also a returning guest on Sam Hui's concerts singing a few songs on
his own or duets with brother. He often participates in TV Game Shows as well.
-His performance that year as gay prostitute Willie O'Keefe in Oliver
Stone 's JFK received tremendous critical acclaim, Premiere calling his
work "flawless", while National Review described it as
"stunning". Shining among an ensemble cast in a small but memorable
role had its appeal for Bacon, whose career began to swing in a more positive
direction. Encouraged by his JFK reviews, he went on to play another character
role�– prosecuting attorney Jack Ross in the 1992 military courtroom drama A
Few Good Men , starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson . Michael Sragow of The
New Yorker found Bacon's performance to be the strongest in the film:
"Kevin Bacon, as the prosecutor, gives the most full-bodied performance.
You find yourself believing he is a career serviceman�– not because of his
flattop haircut but because he's marinated in Marine tradition. His boyish
competitive streak emerges from a saltier place than Cruise's." [
cite this quote ]
+On July 30, 2006 Ricky appeared on concert in Jockey Club Auditorium, The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University .
+Death [ edit ]
-Bacon's newfound career momentum did not stop with these two films; that
same year he returned to the theater to play, opposite Saundra Santiago , in
Spike Heels , directed by Michael Greif . Time , which praised the play's
"tart wit, feminist insight, and quirky detours of plot", also
pronounced Bacon, who portrays a wealthy cad, its "standout" for his
ability to blend "ribaldry, rudeness, rapscallion reprehensibility, and
believable redemption." [ 10 ]
+Ricky Hui died of a heart attack at home on November 8, 2011 at the age of 65.
[ 1 ]
+Filmography [ edit ]
+Year Title
+1972 A Girl Fighter
+The 14 Amazons
+The Lizard
+Man Of Iron
+Thunderbolt Fist
+1973 The Generation Gap
+Sinful Confession
+The House of 72 Tenants
+Illicit Desire
+The Iron Bodyguard
+Kiss of Death
+The Mandarin
+The Sugar Daddies
+The Delinquent
+1974 Games Gamblers Play
+The Ghost Lovers
+Hong Kong 73
+Kidnap
+Rivals Of Kung Fu
+Sex, Love And Hate
+1975 The Flying Guillotine
+The Last Message
+1976 Challenge Of The Masters
+The Private Eyes
+1977 Money Crazy
+1978 The Contract
+1979 From Riches To Rags
+1981 Security Unlimited
+1982 Plain Jane To The Rescue
+To Hell With The Devil
+1983 The Trail
+1984 Aces Go Places III: Our Man From Bond Street
+1985 Infatuation
+Mr. Vampire
+1986 Chocolate Inspector
+Naughty Boys '
+Happy Ding Dong '
+1987 The Haunted Cop Shop
+Project A Part II
+1988 Chicken and Duck Talk
+The Haunted Cop Shop 2
+The Inspector Wears Skirts
+Operation Pink Squad
+Stumbling Cops
+Who Is the Craftiest
+1989 Forever Young '
+How To Be A Millionaire... Without Really Trying
+The Inspector Wears Skirts 2
+Miracles
+Mr Coconut
+1990 Front Page
+1991 Ghost For Sales
+1992 The Magic Touch
+Mr. Vampire 1992
+1993 All's Well, Ends Well Too
+Laughter of "Water Margins"
+1997 First Love Unlimited
+2000 Winner Takes All
+2004 Forever Yours
+Super Model
+2005 Divergence
-It was not until his work on The River Wild in 1994, however, that Bacon began
to feel more confident about the success of his professional comeback. He
earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of a compulsive liar
whose boyish charm turns diabolic when he overtakes the raft of a former river
guide�– played by Meryl Streep �– and her family on a white-water rafting trip.
As Wade, Bacon initially flirts with Streep's character and then befriends
her young son until it becomes apparent that he only wants her knowledge of the
river to secure freedom for himself and his cohorts who are on the lam after a
violent robbery. Describing it to Chase in Cosmopolitan as a "grueling
shoot," in which "every one of us fell out of the boat at one point
or another and had to be saved," [ cite this quote ] Bacon had the added
stress of worrying about Sedgwick and their children, who had joined him on
location. Like the actors and crew, they had to come up the river each day in a
helicopter, which would land on a raft and allow them to trudge to shore.
"I'd hear somebody say, 'The Bacons are in the chopper,'
and I'd see them waving, and then they'd come down," Bacon
recalled. "It was terrifying because everything I loved was in that
whirlybird." [ cite this quote ] Dispelling any lingering suggestions that
Bacon might not be leading-man material, director Curtis Hanson told The New
York Times : "Kevin in our movie is playing a movie-star part. In another
era�– if we were making this movie in 1950�– I would have wanted Robert Mitchum
to play that part." [ 9 ] Hanson, after reflecting on Bacon's earlier
career, also ventured to make some predictions about his future. "Kevin
was going through a period of his life, agewise, that is as fragile as being a
child star....You can be hot for a year or two and then you can fade
rapidly," he explained to Hanson. "Whereas what Kevin's doing
now—-whether by design or by accident�– is he's building a very fruitful
and long career...and he just keeps getting better." [ 9 ]
-
-No matter how grueling the shoot of The River Wild was, it could not compare
to the hardships Bacon experienced preparing for his next film, where he won
the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in 1995, Murder in the First .
Based on a true story that occurred during the Depression , the film recounts
the drama of Henri Young, a petty thief imprisoned in Alcatraz , who, after
spending three years in solitary confinement, kills the inmate whose betrayal
of him led to the punishment. Though Christian Slater , as his public defender,
received top billing for the film, Bacon's character was the dramatic
core. To transform himself into Henri Young, Bacon lost 20 pounds, shaved his
head, and wore contact lenses that completely concealed his eyes and had to be
removed every hour. He spent some time in a jail cell to get the feeling of
being imprisoned. "In every scene, the character suffers a different level
of pain," he explained to Chase. "Because he spent three years in
that dungeon trying to keep warm, I picked this extreme physicality for him
when he comes out. I'm all hunched over, and I walk with a limp, and I had
to pull myself into that twisted condition every day." [ cite this quote ]
Helping Bacon through the physical and psychological wringer of the role was
friend and fellow actor Gary Oldman , ironically playing a sadistic warden who
routinely brutalizes Young. "You know, when somebody's thrown a
bucket of cold water on you, and he's beating you with a blackjack, and
the blood is flying, it helps if the person wielding the blackjack is someone
you trust," Bacon told Cosmopolitan's Chase. "It lets you
fly." For Bacon, the experience of being filmed naked for several weeks in
a Los Angeles warehouse and encrusted with mud and live bugs was not one he
will forget soon. Nor will director Marc Rocco , who told Premiere that working
with Bacon was "the most rewarding experience I've ever had with an
actor." [ cite this quote ] The film did well at the box office, and Bacon
was given good reviews for his performance.
-[ edit ] Continuing success
-Bacon, 2007
-
-The wave of success left Bacon with little time to rest between projects. His
subsequent film, Apollo 13 , released in the summer of 1995, was a blockbuster
[ citation needed ] . Preparation for the film, which tells the true story of
an aborted space mission (Bacon portrayed astronaut Jack Swigert ), involved
some difficult stunt work. To simulate space travel , Bacon and costars Tom
Hanks and Bill Paxton took several trips on huge NASA KC-135 airplanes, which
flies a series of parabolic curves in order to render passengers weightless for
short periods of time. Bacon, who enjoyed this sensation no more than the daily
exposure to icy wind and water on the set of The River Wild , joked to
Entertainment Weekly , "I mean, I'm not a thrill seeker, but I keep
getting into these situations." [ cite this quote ]
-
-Bacon reverted to his trademark dark role once again, as a brutal and sadistic
reform school warden in Sleepers in 1996. Like Murder in the First , Sleepers
presents a gripping yet horrifying reality, in stark contrast to Bacon's
ensuing appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, Picture Perfect the
following year. Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a
retarded houseguest in Digging to China , and as a disc jockey corrupted by
payola in Telling Lies in America . As the executive producer of 1998's
Wild Things , Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star
in Stir of Echoes (directed by David Koepp ) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven
's Hollow Man in 2000.
-
-Bacon, Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard depict a ménage à trois in their film,
Where the Truth Lies . Bacon and director Atom Egoyan have condemned the MPAA
ratings board decision to give the film their " NC-17 " rating over
the preferable "R". Bacon decried the decision, commenting: "I
don't get it, when I see films (that) are extremely violent, extremely
objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an
R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes
on." [ 11 ] Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an
offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman ; he was nominated
best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.
-Bacon speaking before a premiere of Taking Chance in February 2009
-
-He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance , a film based on a
story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl , an
American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran. The film premiered on HBO on
February 21, 2009.
-
-In January 2009, Bacon appeared in a video on funnyordie.com pranking people
around Venice Beach and at the end of each prank exclaiming the person was just
"Bacon'd". [ 12 ]
-[ edit ] Personal life
-
-Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988; they
met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson 's play Lemon Sky .
"The time I was hitting what I considered to be bottom was also the time I
met my wife, our kids were born, good things were happening", he explained
to Cosmopolitan's Chase. "And I was able to keep supporting myself;
that always gave me strength." [ cite this quote ]
-
-Bacon and Sedgwick have starred together in Pyrates , Murder in the First ,
and The Woodsman . They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon (born June 23,
1989 in Los Angeles, California ) and Sosie Ruth Bacon (born March 15, 1992).
The family resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan .
-
-Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in will.i.am 's video It's a New Day
which was released following Barack Obama 's 2008 presidential win.
-
-Bacon and Sedgwick lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Ponzi scheme of
infamous fraudulent investor Bernard Madoff . [ 13 ] [ 14 ]
-[ edit ] Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
-Kevin Bacon greeting fans in Columbia , SC during the production of Death
Sentence October, 2006.
-Main article: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
-
-Bacon is the subject of the trivia game titled Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ,
based on the idea that, due to his prolific screen career , any Hollywood actor
can be "linked" to another in a handful of "steps" based on
their associations with Bacon. Although it has been proven that there are
"better" centers in the Hollywood universe, such as Sean Connery ,
Christopher Lee , Rod Steiger , Gene Hackman or Michael Caine , Bacon's
name remained the focus because he was the first one selected by the
game's creators, and because the name "Kevin Bacon" sounds
similar to the last word of the phrase " six degrees of separation ".
A person's number of degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon is known as
one's "Bacon Number" which takes its name from Erdős number .
-
-Though he was initially dismayed by the game, the meme stuck, and Bacon
eventually embraced it, forming the "charitable initiative"
SixDegrees.org , a social networking site intended to link people to charities
and each other. [ 15 ]
-
-Bacon even eventually starred in a commercial for the Visa Check Card, playing
on the 'six degrees of separation' to prove his identity.
-[ edit ] Music
-
-In 1995 Bacon formed a band called The Bacon Brothers with his brother,
Michael . The duo has released six albums .
-
-[ edit ] Filmography
-[ edit ] Films
-Year Film Role Notes
-1978 National Lampoon's Animal House Chip Diller
-1979 Starting Over Husband
-The Gift Teddy
-1980 Hero at Large 2nd Teenager
-Friday the 13th Jack Burrell
-1981 Only When I Laugh Don
-1982 Diner Timothy Fenwick Jr.
-Forty Deuce Ricky
-1983 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Dennis
-1984 Footloose Ren McCormick
-1986 Quicksilver Jack Casey
-1987 White Water Summer Vic
-End of the Line Everett
-Planes, Trains & Automobiles Taxi Racer
-1988 She's Having a Baby Jefferson 'Jake' Edward Briggs
-1989 Criminal Law Martin Thiel
-The Big Picture Nick Chapman
-1990 Tremors Valentine McKee
-Flatliners David Labraccio
-1991 Pyrates Ari
-Queens Logic Dennis
-He Said, She Said Dan Hanson
-JFK Willie O'Keefe
-1992 A Few Good Men Capt. Jack Ross
-1994 The Air Up There Jimmy Dolan
-The River Wild Wade
-1995 Murder in the First Henri Young
-Apollo 13 Jack Swigert
-Balto Balto Bacon's only voice-over role
-1996 Sleepers Sean Nokes
-1997 Picture Perfect Sam Mayfair
-Destination Anywhere Mike
-Telling Lies in America Billy Magic
-1998 Digging to China Ricky Schroth
-Wild Things Sgt. Ray Duguette
-1999 Stir of Echoes Tom Witzky
-2000 My Dog Skip Jack Morris
-We Married Margo Himself
-Hollow Man Sebastian Caine
-2001 Novocaine Lance Phelps
-2002 Trapped Joe Hickey
-2003 Mystic River Sean Devine
-In the Cut John Graham
-2004 The Woodsman Walter
-Cavedweller Randall Pritchard
-2005 Loverboy Marty also directed
-Beauty Shop Jorge
-Where the Truth Lies Lanny Morris
-2007 Death Sentence Nick Hume
-Rails & Ties Tom Stark
-2008 The Air I Breathe Love
-Frost/Nixon Jack Brennan
-2009 Taking Chance Lt. Col. Michael Strobl
-The Magic 7 Himself
-New York, I Love You Tom
-My One and Only Dan
-Short Subjects A Little Vicious (1991) (narrator)
-New York Skyride (1994) (narrator)
-Imagine New York (2003) as Himself
-Natural Disasters: Forces of Nature (2004) (narrator)
-Saving Angelo (2008) as Brent
-[ edit ] Television
-Year Show Role Notes
-1979 Search for Tomorrow Todd Adamson
-1980-1981 The Guiding Light T. J. 'Tim' Werner #2 Six episodes
-1983 The Demon Murder Case Kenny Miller Television film
-1984 Mister Roberts Ens. Frank Pulver
-1985 The Little Sister Probation Officer Uncredited; television film
-1988 Lemon Sky Alan Television film
-1994 Frasier Vic Single episode
-2002 Will & Grace Himself Single episode: "Bacon and Eggs"
-Directing The Closer (2006) (Episode: Serving the King: Part 2)
-The Closer (2007) (Episode: Blindsided)
-The Closer (2008) (Episode: Sudden Death)
-The Closer (2009) (Episode: Waivers of Extradition)
-[ edit ] Awards
-Won 1996 BFCA Award for Best Actor – Murder in the First
-2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Science Fiction –
Hollow Man
-2003 BSFC Award for Best Cast – Mystic River
-Nominated 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture –
The River Wild
-1996 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in
a Supporting Role - Motion Picture – Murder in the First
-2001 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain – Hollow Man
-2004 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a
Motion Picture – Mystic River
-2005 Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead – The Woodsman
-2009 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a
Motion Picture – Frost/Nixon
-2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie – Taking
Chance
-[ edit ] References
-^ Gary Boyd Roberts. " Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)
". New England Historic Genealogical Society .
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/gbr_78.asp
. Retrieved 2008-01-02 . �
-^ Kevin Bacon's awards at IMDB
-^ "Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated" from The
Guardian
-^ a b Cosmopolitan . March 1991, p. 92.
-^ a b Cosmopolitan . September 1994, p. 178.
-^ Jeff Gordinier (January 27, 1995). " Breakout Star ".
Entertainment Weekly. pp.�27 . http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,295838,00.html .
�
-^ Pauline Kael (April 5, 1982). "Review: Diner". The New Yorker. �
-^ a b Richard Corliss (February 20, 1984). " Revel Without a Cause
". TIME . http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950019,00.html
. �
-^ a b c Trip Gabriel (September 25, 1994). " A Second Wind Is Blowing For
Kevin Bacon ". The New York Times .
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6D91F3BF936A1575AC0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
. �
-^ " Reviews Short Takes ". TIME. June 15, 1992 .
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975774,00.html . �
-^ Bruce Kirkland (2005-09-14). " Kevin Bacon irked over movie rating
". Toronto Sun . http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/09/14/1216527.html . �
-^ http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7dabf82357/
-^ http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=1127558
-^ Bacon confirmed this on Late Show with Craig Ferguson, June 8, 2009
-^ " Six Degrees " . http://www.sixdegrees.org/ . Retrieved
2008-01-02 . �
-[ edit ] External links
-Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kevin Bacon
-Kevin Bacon at the Internet Movie Database
-Kevin Bacon at the Internet Broadway Database
-Kevin Bacon at the Internet off-Broadway Database
-Kevin Bacon at Allmovie
+[ 2 ] [ 3 ]
+References [ edit ]
+^ "許冠英心臟病逝世 享年65歲" . iHKtv (in Chinese). 8 November 2011 . Retrieved 8
November 2011 .
+^ "Ricky Hui" . imdb.com . Retrieved April 2, 2010 .
+^ "Ricky Hui" . chinesemov.com . Retrieved April 2, 2010 .
+External links [ edit ]
+Ricky Hui at the Internet Movie Database
+Ricky Hui an Appreciation Site from Hungary
+Ricky Hui on Hong Kong Cinemagic
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