It's been 27 years since Kevin Bacon's Ren McCormack moved from big-city Chicago to small-town Bomont and, armed only with a soundtrack featuring Kenny Loggins, Bonnie Tyler and Deniece Williams, danced the repression right out of the conservative townies who banned pop music but not book-burning.
Part "Rebel Without a Cause" and part "Pollyanna," "Footloose" combined bad movie clichés with renegade proms, a game of chicken on tractors and the latest in technology -- the Walkman. Given the film's success, a revisit to Bomont was inevitable. With the remake opening this weekend, let's play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with the new cast.
REN
- Now: Kenny Wormald plays the role originated by Bacon.
- Then: Bacon was in his mid-20s when he starred as the rebellious city teen.
Path from Wormald to Bacon:
- Wormald was in "Clerks II" (2006) with Ben Affleck.
- Affleck was in "Good Will Hunting" (1997) with Matt Damon.
- Damon was in "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) with Julia Roberts.
- Roberts was in "Flatliners" (1990) with Bacon.
- Wormand's Bacon number is 4.
ARIEL
- Now: Julianne Hough plays the rebellious preacher's daughter.
- Then: Lori Singer was Ariel.
Path from Hough to Bacon:
- Hough's partner on Season 7 of "Dancing With the Stars" was Cody Linley.
- Linley was in "My Dog Skip" (2000) with Bacon.
- Hough's Bacon number is 2.
REV. SHAW MOORE
- Now: Dennis Quaid plays the moral leader of Bomont.
- Then: John Lithgow played the minister.
Path from Quaid to Bacon:
