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FOR AS LONG AS Eli Goree
can remember, people have swooned over his resemblance to a certain Louisville slugger. There’s no missing it in that smooth brow. That jaw jut. Those piercing eyes. So pretty. He remembers being in Britain a few years back, making small talk with a stranger, and letting slip that he was in the country on an acting job. “Oh,” the stranger gasped. “You’re playing Cassius Clay?” Not Muhammad Ali, the most recognizable human being of the 20th century. No, Cassius Marcellus Clay the lippy young light heavyweight who would become that global icon. “I’ll be in a store,” says the 26-year-old Goree, “and someone’ll say, ‘You know who you look like?’ I mean, I get it constantly. ....

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