'I'm gonna come, I gotta come!' Bacon declared, after the high school where Footloose was shot launched an elaborate campaign to get him to come back
As far as elaborate promposals go, this one is pretty ambitious: Students at Utah’s Payson High School—which, once upon a time, was the filming location for Kevin Bacon’s ’80s hit Footloose—have successfully wooed the star to collectively attend the school’s upcoming prom with them. “I’m gonna come.
The savvy youths got Bacon right in a big Hollywood celebrity’s most sensitive spot, too: The charitable foundation, linking lots of their efforts to Bacon’s SixDegrees.org, which runs programs to do things like distributing “building kits” to people in need. Bacon praised the Payson kids for their #BaconToPayson campaign in his video message to them, saying, “I have been so impressed with everything that’s been going on there with this crazy idea to get me to come back.
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