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Perfectly suited for the jaded minds of blogdom, the University of Virginia's Star Links tool gives you the ability to find connections between TV and Movie stars, however obscure or ridiculous they might seem. Just for fun, here are a few serious actors who are connected by just one other person to some rather lesser names from the magical world we call stage and screen:

• Orson Welles to Tony Slattery ... via Bernard Cribbins.
• Erich von Stroheim to Rik Mayall ... via Jean Piat
• Marlon Brando to Julian Clary ... via Richard Wilson
• Marlene Dietrich to Dawn French ... via Rupert Everett
• Greta Garbo to Arthur Mullard ... via you get the idea

Of course these things aren't that amazing at all, and just rely on our ignorance of statistics.

I mean, in terms of knowing, or meeting, shaking hands, and talking, there's only one person between Tony Blair and I. Only two between myself and General Field Marshal Montgomery (or King George VI). There would only have been two between myself and Hitler, for that matter.

Just a bit of fun, though. Via Lisa.