Talk about your six degrees of seperation - We have Dennis Hopper in the news. He was briefly married (for eight days) to Michelle Phillips, who was previously married to the late John Phillips, who is, of course, the incestuous daddy of Mackenzie Phillips, who has also been in the news this week....and last week. So Dennis Hopper is Mackenzie Philliips' almost-STEP-step-daddy once removed. Also, Michelle Phillips was once pregnant with Jack Nicholson's baby. Jack Nicholson's house is where Roman Polanski performed an illegal sex act on a thirteen year old girl child. Roman Polanski has also been in the news this week. It is also a matter of record that when Roman Polanski's wife , Sharon Tate, was murdered (forty years ago last month), it was noted in the murder scene report that the open sheet music on the piano stand in one of the murder rooms was music to the song "Straight Shooter", which was written by John Phillips and originally recorded by the 1960's pop singing group The Mamas and The Papas, of which, of course, included both John Phillips and Michelle Phillips.