BOND AGENT JAMES BOND
007, lives in Delray Beach
Delray News -Arts and Entertainment Skip Sheffield
Congradulations to John Allen of Delray Beach
on Aug. 10 he won the Cloney Award in Las Vegas for being The Best
Impersonator of a Legend . He also acted as host of the awards ceremony. It
was Allen's second year in a row for the honor for his uncanny impersonation
of the Scottish actor Sean Connery generally acknowledged as the definative
James Bond, British secret agent 007. I was a sculpter and artist for 20
years with a gallery on Federal hwy in Delray Beach" Allen revealed "This is
my artistic expression now, and it is all I do I am booked through May of
next year." Allen began his Sean Connery association as a stand-in for the
actot Eight years ago, while eating dinner at a restaurant in Mizner Park,
he was approached by an agent who had a gig for him. He asked me to rough up
some guy and throw him in Donald Trumps pool as Agent007 Allen relates
"Isaid "Yes i can do that" I've been doing it ever since. It's just getting
bigger and bigger. Allen has been flown all over the USA, Canada, the
Carribbean, Europe and even Auckland, New Zealand, which is the only place
electronics giant Samsung could charter a jumbo jet to film a commercial.
"In Ameriaca corporations make so much money they want to make their
commercials and events the very best" he says "Celebrity Impersonating has
become a big business and a lot of people are very good at it. the Neil
Diamond guy Rob Garrett gets more work then Diamond himself" Allen recently
wrapped shooting on a film "BAMBOO SHARK" in Philadelphia.
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