Swindled Kevin Bacon: "I Need To Work"

Kevin Bacon needs a job.

Last month New York Magazine revealed Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick were two of Bernie Madoff's victims, and may have lost everything they had but their real estate and checking accounts.

Bacon spoke to Life & Style Magazine about it at a Television Critics Association event:

"We'll march on. We have to. There¹s nothing you can do about it. You can't change what happened. Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

But Kevin was shocked by the news of Madoff's scam. "I didn¹t see it coming," he said.

Asked by Life & Style what he's currently working on, Kevin replied: "I don't have anything lined up right now, but I need to work, for obvious reasons."

Bacon is currently appearing in "Frost/Nixon" while his wife stars on TNT's "The Closer."

Comments

[x004Ronin]

People who were swindled by Madoff deserve some sympathy (The SEC really dropped the ball).
People who gave almost all their money to Madoff deserve to be mocked.
The most basic rule of investing (so basic it's a cliche) is the need to diversify. Madoff should never have been allowed to touch more than 10% of their money (I don't care what returns he was offering).
The best analogy for what these people did is to compare it to putting all of your money in one box buried under the tree in the backyard, then being shocked when they lose the money due to a landslide.

[zippy the cow]

People that invested with Maddoff have to have been the stupidest ever.... you send this guy millions and never check up on what is really going on?

[hortonhearsawho2]

Kevin gets microwaved....

[10swingin]

Go Bernie Go.

[emolik16]

Like to add the fact that I could use a job soon, too.
Foreclosure is somehing the likes of Bacon will not face.

[madisonhack]

You might be surprised at the homes that are on the block these days. I've seen some $million houses vacant recently. I just want some new windows, which I can't afford.

[hortonhearsawho2]

can you see russia from those windows ?

[Punkynsnow]

I second that emotion, I could use a job too. I've been out of work for over 18 months, just signed up to go back to school in hopes of getting into a recession-proof career.

Kyra's got a hit TV show and Kevin's marketable. They will have to learn to live with less, like so many of us have had to do. They may have lost a lot of money but are certainly not in the dire straights that so many Americans are in: Out of work with no prospects anytime soon and out of luck.

[emolik16]

Let's not forget that Greed is one of the seven deadly sins.
Sympathetic? sorry, not here.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Greed is Good---Gordon Gecko.

[AZ4thatone]

If 40 is the new 30, then Kevin Bacon is the new Nick Nolte.

[voltage356]

You mean to tell me, Kevin had every cent vested with Madoff.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Result of No SenSe....

[tlgeiger62]

Apparently!

[tigerlille]

Bummer. The only up side is that evidently we will have more opportunities in the future to see Kevin at work. He is a very fine actor, as is Kyra.

[Chris Gnilrets]

Anyone see a sequel to The invisible man in the works.......well i do. Sorry Kevin all you guys enjoyed it while it was good. Be a man and take the pinch with your chin up.

[jugganaut]

So would Madoff be One Degree or Two Degrees from Kevin?

Btw Kevin, I want my bailout for being swindled into seeing "He Said, She Said". Okay, it was mostly my girlfriend's fault, but you owe me too.

[Hoisin]

He needs to fix his hair before leaving his house. The "I just got out of bed" look is and always will be lame.

[Heady]

He was obviously having a Footloose moment before attending that ceremony!

[eus]

Maybe he's been grabbing fist fulls and tearing at it. Its a very appropriate style for the moment.

[tlgeiger62]

Bacon, like Christopher Walken, has never changed his hair. It always looks the same and it always looks terrible.

[blastit]

Kevin Bacon is an great actor is anyone doesn't agree watch the movie Murder in the First

[stayinsouth1981]

See, I'll admit I came to love Tremors...

[shaaronie]

Yes Lawd! 1000 times better than the Shawshank Redemption (and I loved Shawshank Redemption)! He should have won an Oscar for his performance. Outstanding. I've been a Bacon fan ever since.

[YellowDogInRedCounty]

Kevin - I am a big fan but I gotta tell you that you look AWFUL! Please eat something, or get to the gym or SOMETHING!

[ptsd6869]

LOOKS LIKE A LOT MORE PEOPLE ARE SIX DEGREES FROM KEVIN BACON THANKS TO MADE-OFF.