Cisco degrees of separation.

Although she has dispelled rumors that they are engaged, Mischa Barton has finally admitted that she is dating really dirty-looking musician Cisco Adler. Which begs two very important questions, the first being why and the second being even if it’s true, why would you admit that?

There’s not much out there on Cisco, other than that he’s the lead singer of the band Whitestarr (nope, never heard of them, or him for that matter, before he started dating Mischa). But I have gathered a bit of trivia about him that I hope you’ll remember the next time you see Beauty and the Beast lounging poolside in some exotic locale:

- - Cisco’s father is producer Lou Adler, a prominent figure in the music industry in the 1960s and 1970s, who worked with acts including the Mamas and the Papas, Sam Cooke and Carole King. He later delved into the movie industry, producing the American version The Rocky Horror Picture Show as well as the Cheech and Chong movie Up in Smoke.
- - Cisco’s stepmother is Page Hannah, sister of actress Darryl Hannah.
- - Cisco produced and starred in the movie Sweetie Pie, described on Hollywood.com as “a modern-day morality tale about a group of kids who’ve had too much, too soon.” His costars in the film include Paris Hilton and Courtenay Semel, who, by the way, just happens to be one of my favorite cast members from E!’s Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive. Oh, and the movie, wrapped in 2000, is still awaiting a final release date.
- - Cisco was once engaged to Kimberly Stewart. As we all know. Because, aside from the Courtenay Semel connection and his new relationship with Mischa, this was really the most notable piece of information about him.

Since I refuse to believe that a relationship between two people cannot last when one of them never seems to shower (hint, Cisco), I’ve been forced to come up with my own theory as to how this couple came to be. And with clearly no concrete evidence as to what they have in common, I can only resign myself to one possible reason – the “Six Degrees of Separation” game. There’s simply no other reason that these two could have possibly found each other and formed a connection – see how I surmise their union came to be below:

1. Cisco Adler appeared as a character named Papes in, what I’m sure was a blockbuster film in its day, called A Token for Your Thoughts. One of his costars was Matthew Fox.
2. Matthew Fox, prior to Lost, starred as Charlie Salinger on the series Party of Five. Ironically, recurring on both of those shows was Tamara Taylor (as Susan, Walt’s deceased mother on Lost, and as Grace Wilcox, Charlie’s unpopular girlfriend on Party during its third season).
3. Tamara Taylor later guest-starred for a few episodes on Dawson’s Creek, the very same show that featured Jason Behr as snotty high schooler Chris Wolfe.
4. After his time in the Creek, Jason Behr went on to star in sci-fi drama Roswell, the same show that Navi Rawat guest-starred on as the character Shelby Pine.
5. Navi Rawat later recurred as Theresa on The OC, which currently stars…
6. Mischa Barton!

To be honest, I could have connected them in less than six degrees (really four – lots of people from The OC had guest-starring roles on Party of Five, including Samaire Armstrong, who played Anna, and Eric Mabius, who played the mean Dean just a few months ago) – but I don’t like to brag, especially when it’s about the only reason I think these two hooked up. Perhaps if heavy-lidded ex-boyfriend Brandon Davis ever opened his eyes (literally and figuratively), he would have seen this coming…