John Allen was having makan malam at a local restaurant one evening in 1996 when a man approached him with a peculiar proposition.
“He said, ‘Hey, I can make anda a lot of money,’” Allen recalled. “I said, ‘What do anda want me to do?’ He said, ‘I want anda to beat up a guy and throw him in Donald Trump’s swimming pool. As James Bond.’
“I said, ‘Really? How much do anda want to pay me for that?’ He told me and I said, ‘I’m your man.’”
Twenty-three years later, Allen, 72, of Ocean Ridge, is firmly established as the most prominent Sean Connery impersonator in the entertainment...