NEW YORK - "There is a stairwell someone is being chased down.  Bang!! Bang!!  A body falls down in the rain.  A person passes.  She goes out in traffic and runs away.  Lou Gossett is the detective with the fingerprints from the gun."   "It's a murder mystery", Bill Duke legitimizes and explains to me in a phone interview from his offices in Los Angeles , about his latest film adventure "COVER".

Cover, is a play on words using the slang phrase -- "Down Low" or "DL".  "Black women are the number one victims of  HIV/AIDS in our country. They are contracting the disease at rates that are frighteningly similar to that of third world nations", Duke emphasizes.  

Though an official release date hasn't been announced or whether or not the film will go to the theaters or straight to DVD, but Director Bill Duke's down-low film, 'Cover', is slated to come out this year.

LEON "Waiting to Exhale", "Five Heartbeats", usually known as the love interest, expands his acting abilities as Brian Chambers, the romantic interest for the doctor; Greg is the doctor, Glenn Plummer. Other film stars include Vivica A. Fox, Paula Jai Parker , Lou Gossett Jr., Mya, Roger Guenveur Smith, Aujanue Ellis , Victoria Platt and Patti Labelle