PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Paging Terrence Howard. Charley Pride still wants the actor to play him in a movie of the country music star’s life. The project has been discussed for about 10 years.

In 1966, when America first heard Charley Pride’s voice, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive, human beings had yet to set foot on the surface of the moon, and the country music ...