AIDS front and center in HBO's "Life Support"

Queen Latifah takes a break from light-hearted fare like Ice Age and Beauty Shop to star in the HBO movie Life Support. The drama stars Latifah as Ana Willis, an HIV-positive former drug addict who dedicates her life to helping others with the disease.

Ana counsels sick men and women through their difficult ordeals, including Omari, a teenager born with AIDS that can't seem to get his act together. Evan Ross, the youngest child of singer Diana Ross, plays Omari and said Life Support gives a different view of how AIDS affects people's friends and families: "I feel like it was great as an actor to be on the other side of it and as a person because I got to see it from a different side, and hopefully people get to see that. And I really want people to see how it affects other people. How having the disease can affect not only the person but everybody around them. It's a sad story basically showing the harsher side and bringing awareness."

Queen Latifah did Life Support in part because she's lost cousins to AIDS -- one through a blood transfusion and another through intravenous drug use.

Life Support premieres Saturday (March 10th) at 8 on HBO.
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