Scott Simon interviews Terrence Howard

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Terrence Howard has been a busy man this year. He recently released his first album, "Shine Through It," which he also produced. But Howard has been busy pretty much every year since the early 1990s, when he played Jackie Jackson in the made-for-TV movie The Jacksons: An American Dream. Howard is probably best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Djay, a pimp who dreams of making it as a hip-hop star, in the 2005 film Hustle & Flow. During a visit to NPR in October, he looked every inch a ...