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
Richard Lester series on British cinema in the 1960s for the BBC. Director Steven Soderbergh is among many who have called for a reappraisal of Lester's work and influence. He authored "Getting Away With It", published in 1999, about Lester's career. which consists of interviews with Lester. In Soderbergh's book "Getting Away With It," Lester reveals that he is a committed atheist and debates with Soderbergh (then an agnostic), largely based on the arguments of Richard Dawkins. During Lester's time at Penn, he was a member of the Beta Rho Chapter of Sigma Nu. Richard Lester Richard Lester Liebman (born January 19,