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Geoffrey Francis Bowers (December 29, 1953 – September 30, 1987) was an American attorney who was the plaintiff in one of the first HIV/AIDS discrimination cases to go to public hearing. [ 1 ] Early life
Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film directed and produced by Jonathan Demme, written by Ron Nyswaner, and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. [2] Filmed on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington), to help him sue his former employer, who fired him after ...
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003.
Its based loosely on the Geoffrey Bowers case. Asarelah 02:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC) It is also based more thanm loosely on the Joel Hyatt, Hyatt Legal Services V. Cain case from 1990. Hyatt Legal Services ran the largest such law firm in Philadelphia at that time.
In 1990, Hyatt Legal Services paid a $157,000 settlement for having illegally fired an attorney in their Philadelphia offices, Clarence B. Cain, in reference to his AIDS diagnosis. [3] The case was an inspiration for the 1993 film Philadelphia, alongside the more renowned Geoffrey Bowers case three-years prior.
Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1949, to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi.He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and later lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, for three years of high school (10th, 11th, and 12th grade). [2]
Jeffrey Robert Lurie (born September 8, 1951) is an American businessman, motion picture producer, and owner of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) since 1994. As a film producer he has three Academy Awards to his credit, while the Eagles have won two Super Bowls under his watch as owner. [1]
John C. Bowers (1811–1873), entrepreneur, organist, and vestryman, and founding member of first Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Thomas Bowers (c. 1823–1885), concert artist Ed Bradley (1941–2006), CBS News radio journalist and television journalist