Why Fife is Britain’s unlikely answer to the Italian Riviera

• If you squinted a bit, the silver-haired man did have something of the Kirk Douglas about him. We’d got chatting at the bar in the Auld Hoose in Kinghorn; he showed me a screen-shot from a movie in which he’d appeared in 1998, his quiff as perfectly coiffed then as now. “It was after that I met Jason Connery who said to me, you look just like Kirk.”