Tom Detrik

Tom Detrik

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  • Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
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    • Micaela 2022-04-21 09:01:29

      I may be gay! what! I want to stay away from you, lest you fancy me!

      In court, Miller said loudly that the essence of the case was the hatred and fear of homosexuality, and yeah, that's the crux of the matter. The case is over, Andrew and Miller won, and here comes the question.

      When will public hatred and fear of homosexuality disappear?

      Homosexuality, there are...

    • Alejandra 2022-04-20 09:01:19

      I don't want to be discriminated against because of love

      Sometimes I think that I know
      What love's all about
      And when I see the light
      I know I'll be all right.
      I've got my friends in the world,
      I had my friends
      When we were boys and girls
      And the secrets came unfurled .
      City of brotherly love
      Place I call home
      Don't turn your back on me
      I don't want to...

    • Madisen 2022-03-22 09:01:23

      I rely on my sincerity to feel very ordinary, except for social values ​​and ethical thinking. Hanks won the best actor again because of this film is somewhat weak. The highlight is the i am love in the middle and last paragraphs, but it seems timid and not stretchy enough.

    • Paxton 2022-03-23 09:01:26

      This film was made 20 years ago, what kind of discrimination against AIDS and homosexuality 20 years ago, so it can be moved by the situation at that time, but today, both in terms of conception and narrative method Achievement and stereotypes.

    Philadelphia quotes

    • Belinda Conine: [Defense opening statement] fact: Andrew Beckett's performance on the job varied from competent to good, to often times mediocre, to sometimes flagrantly incompetent fact: he claims he's the victim of lies and deceit, fact: it was Andrew Beckett who lied, going through lengths to conceal his disease from his employers, fact: Andrew Beckett was successful in his duplicity, the partners at Wyatt Wheeler did not fire Andrew Beckett because he had AIDS fact: Andrew Beckett is dying fact: Andrew Beckett is angry because his lifestyle, his reckless behavior has cut short his life and in his anger, in his rage he is lashing out and he wants someone to pay

    • Joe Miller: [Plaintiff opening statement] ladies and gentlemen of the jury: forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There's not going to be any last minute surprise witnesses, nobody's going to break down on the stand with a tearful confession, you're going to be presented with simple facts. Andrew Beckett was fired and you'll two explanations on why he was fired, ours and theirs it's up to you to sit through layer upon layer of truth until you determine for yourself which version sounds the most true. There's certain points I must prove to you: point number one: Andrew Beckett was... is a brilliant lawyer, a great lawyer, point number two: my client afflicted with a disabling disease made the understandable, the personal, and the legal choice to keep the fact of his illness to himself point number three: his employers discovered his illness and ladies and gentlemen the illness I'm referring to is AIDS point number four: they panicked and in their panic they did what most would do which is just get "it" and everybody who has "it" as far as away as possible, the behavior of my client's employers seem reasonable to you, it does to me, after all AIDS is a deadly incurable disease but no matter how you come to judge Charles Wheeler and his partners in ethical and moral and inhuman terms, the fact of the matter is when they fired Andrew Beckett because he has AIDS they broke the law.