Six(ish) degrees of separation

I haven't played this game for so long that when my friend J gave me two challenges yesterday, I was more than happy to get to work. With the more complex ones (that do not just involve actors), the new rule is they do not have to be six degrees, nor do they have to be conventional connections. But they are still connections nonetheless.

1. Robert Homme (The Friendly Giant) to Prince (the freaky singer)

Robert Homme won the Order of Canada, an award that Dan Akroyd also won, Dan Akroyd was on SNL from 1975-79, during the time that Bill Murray was also on SNL, Bill Murray was in Lost in Translation with Scarlett Johnannson, who was in Ghost World with Thora Birch, who was in American Beauty with Kevin Spacey, who was in Seven with Brad Pitt, who was in Fight Club with Meatloaf, who performed on the 2006 American Idol finale, where Prince also performed.

Or if you want a much shorter, but not as connected, way - Robert Homme - Dan Akroyd, Dan Akroyd was on SNL and Prince performed on SNL (but I think in the 80s, when Dan was gone)

Or I can do a version with Robert Homme being on "Life and Times: growing up Canadian" that talked about him, Mr Dressup and Fred Penner, and then I saw Fred at the children's festival in the 80s, and in the 90s I was in an episode of the X-Files with David Duchovny, who was in a really bad movie called Playing God with Timothy Hutton, who was in Beautiful Girls with Natalie Portman, who was in The Professional with Gary Oldman, who was in True Romance with Samuel L Jackson, who was in Unbreakable with Bruce Willis, who was in the Sixth Sense with Mischa Barton, who was on the OC, where Lisa somebodyerother (Bonet?) from American Idol did a guest appearance, and Lisa also performed in the finale with Prince.

2. Bob Ross (the tv painter who made "happy little trees") to Ozzy Osbourne

Bob Ross was spoofed on an episode of Family Guy ("We're just gonna put a happy little bush down in this corner, and that'll just be our little secret. But if you tell anybody that bush is there, I will come to your house and I will cut you!"), which stars Seth Green, who was in Austin Powers with Mike Myers, who was in Shrek with Antonio Banderas (who was Puss in Boots), who was in Evita with Madonna, whose song "Papa don't preach" was covered by Kelly Osbourne, who is, in fact, related to Ozzy Osbourne and was on the Osbournes tv show with him.