Latent homosexuality despite the man being openly homosexual. Latent homosexual themes were a common theme of science fiction films of the 1950s. In the 1999 film "American Beauty" the character Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper) is depicted as being a latent homosexual. Throughout the film, Fitts makes several statements that are narrow-minded and homophobic, and it disturbs the colonel that his son Ricky might be homosexual. However, towards the end of the film, it is revealed that Fitts himself has sexual feelings towards men when he approaches his neighbor Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) and kisses him, but Lester rejects Col. Fitts, and this
Carolyn Zane and 1999. After what Zane refers to as the world's longest maternity leave, she went back to work as the launch author for Abingdon Press's "Quilts of Love" series. Her book, "Beyond the Storm", inspired by the Joplin/Tuscaloosa tornadoes, debuted October 2012. "*" Miss Prim's Untamable Cowboy (1997) List of romantic novelists Carolyn Zane Carolyn Pizzuti is an American author of romance novels under the pen name Carolyn Zane. She has also been published as Suzy Pizzuti. Carolyn was born to Douglas Owen Tope and Mary Patricia Willis and raised in Southern California. When she was five, her family, including