Philadelphia (1993)

Robert Ridgely: Walter Kenton

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• Charles Wheeler : Regarding Andy I want to know everything about his personal life does he frequent those pathetic bars? What other homosexual facilities does he go to? What deviant groups does he secretly belong to?

  Bob Seidman : Let's make a fair settlement offer and just put this whole tragic business behind us.

  Charles Wheeler : Bob, Andy brought AIDS into our offices, into our *Men's* Room, he brought AIDS to our annual God damn family picnic

  Walter Kenton : We ought to be suing him, Bob.

  Bob Seidman : Where is your compassion gentlemen?

  Charles Wheeler : [to Bob]  Bob, we gave him Highline, Did Andrew Beckett say I might not be able to serve our client to the best of my ability? He said nothing and now, disregarding the trust and affection I conferred upon him, Andrew Beckett proposes to hall me into court, to sling accusations at me, to call me a *bigot* - in full view of the entire Philadelphia judicial establishment. My God.

  Kenneth Killcoyne : Beckett doesn't want to go to court. He's looking for a quick tasty settlement.

  Bob Seidman : [to everyone]  A jury might decide he has a case.

  Charles Wheeler : [to Bob]  Wait a minute, he was fired for incompetence not because he has AIDS. You didn't know he was sick, did you, Bob?

  Walter Kenton : Holy shit, did you Bob?

  Bob Seidman : [nervously]  No. No, not really.

• Walter Kenton : What's that on your forehead, pal?

  Andrew Beckett : What? Where?

  Walter Kenton : That - right there on your forehead.

• Joe Miller : How many weeks at a time would you be out to sea without stopping at port?

  Walter Kenton : Oh, anywhere from two weeks to several months.

  Joe Miller : Any women on board?

  Walter Kenton : Not when I was in the navy.

  Joe Miller : So, during these long voyages, months at a time, out to sea, no women in sight, hundreds of hardworking, robust young men in the prime of their lives, at the peak of their natural appetites and desires, their God-given hormonal instincts, anything going on?

  Walter Kenton : Going on? Like what?

  Joe Miller : Like two sailors down below makin' flippy-flop?

• Joe Miller : You had one guy like that? You mean a homosexual?

  Walter Kenton : He strutted around quarters naked trying to get everybody to notice him. Made everyone *sick*. He was destroying our morale. So we let him know this kind of behavior was not acceptable.

  Joe Miller : How'd you do that? What? You wrote him a letter?

  Walter Kenton : We stuck his head in a latrine after ten of us had used it.