Since it’s the dreaded final season of Burn Notice, I thought I’d spotlight one of my favorite actors, a guy I had never heard of before this show started, but now I see everywhere. Jeffrey Donovan has come so far over the course of this show, even going so far as to direct a few episodes and the Bruce Campbell/Sam Axe spinoff film, Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe. This is another one I’ve been watching right from the start, and I’m glad I stuck with it through the end. I hope the cast goes on to do other awesome things, preferably involving spy gear and explosives, but I suppose it’s all right if it’s something else.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Episode 12
Jeffrey Donovan
Again, I hadn’t heard of Jeffrey Donovan before the show started, and I actually wasn’t crazy about him until a few episodes in. I didn’t know Bruce Campbell or Sharon Gless either. They were a bit before my time, but now, especially, Campbell, I see guest-starring EVERYWHERE! Too right, too. He’s hilarious. However, the one person in the cast I recognized was from way back…
Gabrielle Anwar! The first and one of the only times I saw Anwar was in the classic Al Pacino film from 1992 film, Scent of a Woman. She gets to tango with the man himself. How awesome is that? Of course, Burn Notice debuted fifteen years after Scent of a Woman, so Anwar had definitely matured from the baby-faced cutie who danced her way across the floor with a living legend to the kickass explosives and weaponry expert we see in Burn Notice. However, I don’t think there’s anyone who could play Fiona Glenanne the way Anwar does. It’s pretty tough to master a character who’s borderline crazy while still coming off as a regular person with emotions, intelligence, and pure awesome. In any case, as I mentioned, this leading lady was in a movie with a Hollywood legend…
Al Pacino! I’ll admit, the man’s career has had its obstacles in recent years (remember 88 Minutes? Yeah, no one else does either), but I think he’s hit his stride again by tapping into his relationship with HBO playing some pretty hardcore characters like Jack Kevorkian and Phil Spector. However, you can’t dismiss a man who played in The Godfather, Scarface, Any Given Sunday, Glengarry Glen Ross, and a list of other prominent and incredible films just because a couple recent flicks flopped. One of those classics, and one of my favorite roles of his dates back to 1993, just after his Oscar-winning performance in Scent of a Woman. Pacino plays a former criminal, recently released from prison, as Charlie Brigante, aka Carlito in Carlito’s Way. His character was a little distant and a little tough to relate to, but the story was dynamite. And who else to play the thorn in Pacino’s side but another Hollywood superstar…
Sean Penn! While he was kind of a dick lawyer in Carlito’s Way, Sean Penn’s come a long way from the stoned out surfer in Fast Times at Ridgmont High. He’s starred alongside Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Michelle Pfeiffer (I Am Sam), Benicio Del Toro (21 Grams), and a few other heavy hitters like Tim Robbins, Laura Linney, and Laurence Fishburne, in a little film called Mystic River. In said film, Penn got to work with our hero…
Kevin Bacon! Mystic River was an Oscar darling in 2004. Wins for Penn and Robbins, and nominations for Eastwood, Marcia Gay Harden, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. Unfortunately, Bacon wasn’t nominated this time, but that’s not to say his performance was any less than stellar. It’s a harsh movie, with ugly truths and ugly pasts, but it’s well-done. Well-deserving of all the award buzz it received.
Results: 3 degrees of separation
Since my familiarity with the cast of Burn Notice doesn’t extend too far beyond the show, it was tough to find a connection other than Anwar to start with, but I think it all turned out all right!
Photos:
Jeffrey Donovan: courtesy USA Network
Gabrielle Anwar: courtesy USA Network
Al Pacino: via Biography.com
Sean Penn: via Biography.com
Kevin Bacon: Bored to Death – Season 2 – “Forty-Two Down!”: Barry Wetcher/HBO via TV Guide
By the way, if you ever see a way to pare down the degrees of separation and point out how to connect the actor in question to Kevin Bacon through fewer connections, leave a comment and prove your movie buff prowess!
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