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.

Bacon and Sedgwick have starred together in Pyrates, Murder in the First, The Woodsman, and Loverboy.

They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon ( born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California ) and Sosie Ruth Bacon ( born March 15, 1992 ).

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.

* Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick have a house and live part time in Sharon.

Charter members of the Academy are Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Bacon, James Bowdoin, Charles Chauncy, John Clark, David Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cushing, Nathan Cushing, William Cushing, Tristram Dalton, Francis Dana, Samuel Deane, Perez Fobes, Caleb Gannett, Henry Gardner, Benjamin Guild, John Hancock, Joseph Hawley, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Ebenezer Hunt, Jonathan Jackson, Charles Jarvis, Samuel Langdon, Levi Lincoln, Daniel Little, Elijah Lothrup, John Lowell, Samuel Mather, Samuel Moody, Andrew Oliver, Joseph Orne, Theodore Parsons, George Partridge, Robert Treat Paine, Phillips Payson, Samuel Phillips, Jr., John Pickering, Oliver Prescott, Zedekiah Sanger, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, Micajah Sawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, William Sever, Stephen Sewall, David Sewall, John Sprague, Ebenezer Storer, Caleb Strong, James Sullivan, John Bernard Sweat, Nathaniel Tracy, Cotton Tufts, James Warren, Samuel West, Edward Wigglesworth, Joseph Willard, Samuel Williams, Abraham Williams, Nehemiah Williams, and James Winthrop.

In 2005 it had 15, 000 attendees and featured tributes to such guests as Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Tom Ortenberg from Lionsgate Films.

The video features celebrities such as Fergie, Olivia Wilde, Kanye West, Harold Perrineau, Kevin Bacon, and his wife Kyra Sedgwick.

When he approached Kevin Bacon, the actor was so impressed by the script, about a convicted child molester forced to deal with social prejudice and the fear he will not be able to control his dark urges after he's released from prison, that he suggested he star in the movie opposite wife Kyra Sedgwick.

Philip is also the nephew of musician Mike Stern, Leni Stern, Kevin Bacon ( his uncle by marriage ) and Kyra Sedgwick ( his mother's half-sister ).

Gradually, Bacon earned the standing of one of the learned counsels, though he had no commission or warrant and received no salary.

For example, Immanuel Kant used pure description to discuss recognition and its components and Sir Francis Bacon claimed that the simple observation of the rote recollection of a previously learned list was “ no use to the art ” of memory.

Three years later, on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with Lady Jane Grey as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, Anne, became the wife of Sir Nicholas ( and later the mother of Sir Francis ) Bacon.

" Like many of the learned Scots, he revered the new science of Copernicus, Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, Boyle and Newton ; he believed in the experimental method and loathed superstition.

* John Baconthorpe ( or John Bacon, c. 1290 – 1346 ), learned English Carmelite monk

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).

In 2011, James Franco made reference to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon while hosting the 83rd Academy Awards.

In February 2011, the acquisition of 195 new works was announced, including paintings from Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon.

* The Richard Bacon Show ( BBC Radio 5Live, Spoof Interview with Richard Bacon promoting his autobiography ) 2011

When criticising proposed BBC local radio cutbacks in December 2011, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon claimed in a letter to Lord Patten, the Chairman of the BBC Trust, that only the national station BBC Radio 2 gained higher audiences in Norfolk than BBC Radio Norfolk did.

* Guys Gone Wild: Canadian Bacon ( 2011 )

In 2011, the song " Calling All Destroyers " from the band's debut was used as the song for the animated title sequence of the James Gunn film Super featuring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon.

At several points throughout the commentary, Bacon alludes to his connections to Hollywood stars via other actors with whom he has worked.

Brimmer Company were accredited within the ' Acknowledgments ' of People and Music by Thomasine C. McGehee-Published via Allyn and Bacon within the Junior High School Series, ed.

Astronomer Carl Sagan has an Erdős number of no more than 4 via Steven J. Ostro and a Bacon number of 3, for a total of 7.

Some Rosicrucians include Francis Bacon among their masters and trace their origins back to the time of Thutmosis III.

One of their films is screened in the KahBang Off Screen Category, " Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon " which connects the honored back to the man himself.

Bacon has been accused of servility, of dissimulation, of various base motives, and their filthy brood of base actions, all unworthy of his high birth, and incompatible with his great wisdom, and the estimation in which he was held by the noblest spirits of the age.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

As late as the eighteenth-century some juries still declared the law rather than the fact, but already before the end of the seventeenth century Sir Matthew Hale explained modern common law adjudication procedure and acknowledged Bacon as the inventor of the process of discovering unwritten laws from the evidences of their applications.

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.

Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.

The earliest major philosophers to publish in English, such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke also routinely wrote in Latin and French, and compared their terms to Greek, treating the words " logos ", " ratio ", " raison " and " reason " as inter-changeable.

In 2009, Bacon narrated a National Geographic Channel show ' The Human Family Tree ' – a program charting the work of the Genographic Project and their work on the genetic interconnectedness of all humans.

In the summer of 2012, Google began to offer the ability to find an actor's Bacon number on their main page, by searching for the actors name preceded by the phrase, " bacon number ".

The history of the human mind, as it was called in the eighteenth century, was of great concern to scholars and philosophers, and their efforts can in part be traced to Francis Bacon ’ s call for what he termed a literary history in his The Advancement of Learning.

Following their deaths in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Henry and Boston were interred and memorialized in Monroe ’ s historic Woodland Cemetery, as are many members of Bacon ’ s family.

Horwitz writes that this was not just limited to Bacon, and that " after the dramatic confrontations between Lord Chief Justice Coke and Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, chancellors took care to circumscribe the Court's corrective jurisdiction and to focus more narrowly on territories they had staked out as peculiarly their own ".

These were initially solicitors for the people suing in the Court, and no other counsel was allowed, but by the time of Francis Bacon claimants were allowed their own counsel.

Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative " Portrait Heads " of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in recent years le Brocquy's early " Tinker " subjects and Grey period " Family " paintings, have attracted attention on the international marketplace placing le Brocquy within a very select group of British and Irish artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £ 1 million during their lifetimes that include Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, and Francis Bacon.

Aware of his own need to learn French, Bacon lived for three months with Madame Bocquentin and her family at their house near Chantilly.

Dudley's influence swayed Elizabeth into asking Nicholas Bacon to rule in favour of the Inner Temple, and in gratitude the Parliament and Governors swore never to take a case against Dudley and to offer him their legal services whenever required.

His father, William Breton, a London merchant who had made a considerable fortune, died in 1559, and the widow ( née Elizabeth Bacon ) married the poet George Gascoigne before her sons had attained their majority.

This was associated with their culture and progressive thought ( Roger Bacon ).

* 1839 Perkins Bacon and Co are asked to make plates and dies for stamps ( the Penny Black was their first stamp ).