While being famous comes with its perks, avoiding crime isn’t one of them. At least not for Kevin Bacon. On Thursday morning Bacon was in a subway station on 7th Avenue and 53rd Street when a thief snatched his Blackberry. Not one to just take thievery of electronics laying down, Bacon took off after the bandit – in what I imagine/hope was a very dramatic, action movie-esque chase. Unfortunately he lost the guy in the crowd, and now some formerly powerless loser has access to many of the most powerful numbers in Hollywood.

Kevin Bacon wasn’t footloose enough. The Hollywood star tried to chase down a thug who swiped his BlackBerry at a Seventh Avenue subway station Thursday, sources told The Post. The brazen mugger managed to escape and was at large yesterday.

Now the thief is a lot less than six degrees of separation away from a coveted cache of A-list celebrities and boldface names likely programmed into Bacon’s ‘Berry. The robber boldly swiped the “Footloose” star’s cell at 10:50 a.m. Thursday at the B, D and E station at 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, sources said. Bacon didn’t give up the BlackBerry easily. The star took off after the crook, but lost track of him as he raced through the station’s crowd, the sources said.

The numbers for Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick — who plays a cunning detective on the hit TV drama “The Closer” — is no doubt stored in the phone, possibly along with dozens of other box- office stars who have graced the big screen with Bacon.

But this isn’t the first time Bacon was robbed. He and Sedgwick were swindled by Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, who pleaded guilty to running a $65 billion fraud in March. NYC Transit officials said no subway personnel were told about the crime, although sources said Bacon did call police. NYPD officials couldn’t confirm yesterday that a report was filed concerning the robbery.

[From Page Six]

I was going to start off this article by saying that one of the perks of being famous is that in terms of money, it’s no big deal to replace your stolen Blackberry. But I’d forgotten about Bacon being one of Bernie Madoff’s victims. So replacing the Blackberry might be a big deal after all. This is ripe for a bunch of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” jokes. In fact it sort of hurts not to make them. Bacon’s Blackberry is like the digital crib sheet for that game.

I can’t help but wonder if Bacon was specifically targeted, or if the thief had no idea who he was. In all likelihood I’d bet the guy was just focused on the Blackberry. And many celebs – especially men – look completely normal in average surroundings. Somehow I wouldn’t be expecting to see Kevin Bacon in the subway station. It probably was a random crime – and I’m guessing the mugger is too dumb to figure out what he’s got anyway.

Here’s Kevin Bacon at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

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