He also claimed to be the son of film star Sidney Poitier and the victim of muggers who had stolen his money and Harvard term paper (slyly titled "Injustices in the Criminal Justice System"). Using his typical funny to sad juggling style he cleverly dramatized the empty values of the Reagan era's one-percenters who were suckered into believing that Paul was a student, at Harvard and knew their children. Guare did invent was his own group of upper crust New Yorkers and a real Hampton counterpart named Paul. His inspiration was a real life con man named David Hampton. Guare also didn't invent the the idea that a young black outsider could insinuate himself into the lives of well-heeled, well-known New Yorkers by laying claim to several of those possible 6-degree connections. But it was his 1990 play and subsequent movie that made its title, Six Degrees of Separation, part of our daily vocabulary. John Guare didn't invent that theory about there being only six degrees of separation between us and everyone else. Allison Janney and Corey Hawkins (photo: Joan Marcus)
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