The best slices of Bacon's career

 Kevin Bacon, the (unofficial but so totally official) Centre of the Hollywood Universe, is easily one of the world's most versatile actors having starred in more than 60 movies, his own trivia game and now, an FBI-centric television show, The Following, which premieres this Jan 21 on CTV and Fox (at 9 p.m., ET). There's also that weird rumour that if you say Kevin Bacon's name in a mirror three times, he'll appear as a floating latex mask, but as of yet, nobody's been brave enough to test the theory.

Anyway, what we're getting at is the fact that Bacon's ubiquity knows no limits and, as a tribute to one of the first men to dance by himself (through an abandoned milk loft), here are just a few of the best Bacon wrapped movie roles served with an extra side of Bacon...