Kevin Bacon Plays Pong; Dartmouth Students Play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”
Last Friday night, Kevin Bacon, good sport that he is, went up to Hanover to receive the Dartmouth Film Award following a tongue-in-cheek retrospective of his work.
According to The Dartmouth, Bacon took the whole thing in stride. "To make fun of yourself is a great honor," he told a full crowd at Spaulding Auditorium. What's better (or best!) is that Bacon then returned to Alpha Delta, the frat he memorialized so many years ago in Animal House. And then he played pong. And people took pictures.
We know we're super-late late on this one (the HuffPo beat us by a like a zillion blog-years), but sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words (or at least a post).
After the jump: another picture! This time K-Bake has a beer in his hand!
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February 1st, 2008 at 2:16 am
That’s effing awesome.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:39 am
I love this school.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:22 am
I love this school too, Yan Fan.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:23 am
AD does not need to think they’re any cooler than they already do.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:09 am
Dartmouth has just confirmed its position as the lamest Ivy, nay university in a six state area. I can’t believe they asked the question about his ‘educational regrets’. Besides being impolite I am sure that his experiences, body of work (not to mention monetary compensation) has yielded far more than 99.9% of those in attendance will achieve. And as I understand it, his family pretty much has snooty dibs on the vast majority of that group too. If the comments from D-mouth students said, “yeah the questions were sometimes stupid and we got how unbelievably adolescent and lame the scene must have appeared to him”- it could have saved face. Instead we get five “yay, I’m awed at this awesomeness in NH!” Good grief! I want to believe that only D-mouth is filled with such a group of puffed up douche bags who have no idea of how comparatively lame they are but I fear it may be such douchery holed up at all Ivies. Suddenly I feel a little ‘less’ about my collegiate experience.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:10 am
well written response ithaca that was really enlightening
February 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Michael Amico has been generally regarded as one of the more decrepit and lame people to arrive on campus in the last few years. He sucks, his question is an embarassment, and I hope he stops coming around campus.
Also, “Feeling pain in Ithaca,” id reading this article hurts so bad, why don’t you engage in the time-honored jump-off-a-building hobby that your school enjoys.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am
I’ll have you know, thed, that the tradition is to jump off bridges, not buildings.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:32 am
thats pretty awesome dartmouth. well done
February 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Dear Feeling pain in Ithaca:
Pretentious much? Or just a hater? Perhaps both? I’m going to say both.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Your conceptual perception of “five comments” from dartmouth students troubles me .
The first comment is from “gnomie” who said: “That’s effing awesome,” implying that he or she was impressed by Bacon being at Dartmouth, and was thus probably not one of the few thousand students here at Dartmouth that saw his face plastered to bulletins around school.
The next comment from “DARTMOUTH” was repeated twice, followed by a comment of approval from D’11.
Finally, my comment, before yours, reads: “AD does not need to think they’re any cooler than they already do,” which, if read as intended, which I believe it does, promulgates criticism for an overly haughty fraternity.
So that’s two comments by Dartmouth students that say “yay, I’m awed at this awesomeness in NH!” and not five. Just sayin’.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Shut up Ithaca. You are so far from any real sense of this school that your judgment is almost hilariously wrong. Bacon enjoyed himself on stage and the whole thing was entertaining and largely successful. The audience seemed to be mostly community members (ie - not ivy leaguers), so half your post doesn’t really make sense. You seem unusually disturbed that a bunch of kids are drinking beer and playing pong with a celebrity in a frat. It somehow follows that they are snooty douchebags. Have you visited any of the frats where you live, or are so entirely removed from the social scene that you spend your time trolling ivygate instead? You lack perspective and set a bad example for your school.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Grow the fuck up, retards.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
To me, Bacon will always be Chip. Thank you sir, may I have another.
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Go Gators!!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
SIHBITDIS!
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Good for you, Mateusz Grudzein.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
The Kernal lives. Dig up Harry!
February 5th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Michael Amico’s way too intelligent for Dartmouth. Such retards.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Are you serious? Michael Amico just needs to leave. guess he’s getting in that fourth year he missed when he transferred in …
February 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
looks like he’s holding the paddle wrong
February 11th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Dartmouth is so fucking gay and it’s so fucking obvious because all you fucking fags are getting off on fucking Kevin Bacon drinking beer in one of your dirty, piss-filled dungeons of gay sex.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
that was nothing, you should have seen paul farmer play.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
that was nothing, you should have seen paul farmer play.