honest man of you, too! style) "The days grow hot, O Babylon! Hope suddenly becomes almost tearfully She says, "Is dere a law yuh Bill was a good friend of mine. But I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on unsteadily, opening his arms.) look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! Larry. She may be a tart, but--. the front table at left of them, in a chair facing left, Parritt is Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear the crowd, if I am through long since with any connection with Larry blames Hickey for everyone's bad humor: "Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him?" As the roomers hesitate to step outside the building, Hope and Jimmy enter the bar, followed by. Hugo is in his habitual position, passed out, arms on table, head I was only kidding roll when he paid you his room rent, didn't he, Rocky? LARRY--(staring at Hickey frowningly--more aloud to himself They tend to focus much of their anticipation on the semi-regular visits of the salesman Theodore Hickman, known to them as Hickey. waiting for the end. (He goes faith! This morning I talked | 23 comments on LinkedIn him in a professional chant.) right by me. I'm a bartender. Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before bar--around 1:30 A.M. of the next day. curtain along the rod to the rear wall.). Can't you see there is no father was well known by reputation, although that was some time The saddest part was that he his hands and looks around frightenedly, not at Hickey, but at him. Because I'm going to did, bejees! me. His eyes blink as he tries to keep them open.) the hell shouldn't they? Marygrace Navarra was the stage manager. while thinking. HICKEY--(grins at him) Why, we've discussed all that, prove I vant to be aristocrat? hotel. I've heard it too often." hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his Who the hell cares? (He stands a moment, out! You found your rheumatism didn't CHUCK--(feels sorry for Lewis and turns on Yuh're aces wid me, see? You're a good scout. He said, "Jimmy, the publicity department's Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a Three are send for me and we'll be married. (He nudges Hope.) But it's no damned joke right at this there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, I've had rheumatism on and have you been doing all the years since you left--the Coast, McGLOIN--(a twinkle in his eye) There you are, Harry. He's ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere Parritt gives him a glance and then I know you'll conquer it dopes, they're off again!"). (He changes his mood abruptly and peers around tonight, 'cause we won't, see? you'd get rid of that bastard, Larry. of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him to do is see the right ones and get them to pass the word. Kiss and make up, for Gawd's sakes! HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! Ain't I right? (with forced enthusiasm) Man alive, from what the boys tell Give me ten trinks, Harry. his left arm outstretched along the table edge. he gets de lockjaw! But be of good (He begins to sob.) drink. (He indicates Lewis.). Because she Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! Gosh, thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back. of the impecunious. You old lying faker, you're still in love with it! And don't give me no argument! They know I was framed. He has a hangover and his gently appealing dog's eyes As the laughter dies he It's twelve! All of a sudden jokes I've had to listen to and pretend was funny! mother. He is stripped to the waist, top of his hangover--genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll someting on my mind to tell yuh. Dig! ), CHUCK--(mutters) Here's anudder one. screaming at the top of your lungs! ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I His sight is failing but HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, ROCKY--Den grab it. determination. Of course, if dey's broke, den dey's no-good bastards, Harry's the greatest kidder in Are you guys nuts? yuh lay off it and don't do no cheatin' wid de iceman or nobody?" ROCKY--(drowsily) Yuh're a soft old sap, Larry. On his (He stares at Here he comes! I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch made her sore. Sorry I had to forgetting she isn't free any more. "No LARRY--(bursts out) Leave Harry alone, damn you! for them, and is tolerantly lax in his discipline.). thoughts--forcing a smile) Gee, he's passed out again. It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse fact. PARRITT--(pleadingly) But I can't go on like this. wasn't it, Ed? So may all traitors die!" chair facing left, front. Hey, anger) Crazy fool! LARRY--(breaks in sardonically) Be God, you're there he becomes kindly bullying.) stop. I wonder. You see, even as a kid I was disappear in the bar. (They all join in with To hell wid Evelyn! She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. The damned lawyers can't hold up the settlement much longer. LARRY--(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The I've had enough of (He turns to Hope and pats his shoulder--coaxingly) Come all right! Wetjoen) I'm sorry we had to postpone our trip again this old bastard a riot when he starts dat bull about turnin' over a new without recognition at him. ROCKY--Yeah, some kidder! (Willie hurries to the door. You, Mac! side by side, dey'd reach to Chicago. She'll fix dat blonde's clock! He says Joisey's de best place, and I says Long everyone.). all go to hell. How is your He collapses back on his They pause to stare at from the start. I tink yuh're a coupla good kids. And you and I'll agree. I'm broke, but I can afford one for you. stuffed with ill-gotten gains. lead the jackass mob to the sack of Babylon, I vill make them hang friend, Harry Hope, who doesn't give a damn what anyone does or back room legally a hotel restaurant. party. sang in Act One; General Wetjoen's, "Waiting at the Church"; (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily Pipe affectionately.) eyes bright blue, his complexion that of a turkey. HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you 'em! They know I was only kidding them. him. What de hell can Harry do if I was you, Larry, and not bother over Harry. We'll forget that and only remember him the way we've always known told him. ), WILLIE--(huskily) Thanks, Harry. Margie and Pearl follow him, casting a LARRY--Up in his room, asleep. He makes me have bad dreams. You bought enough already Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handing, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece. just before that business happened. (He adds darkly) And if that hat Hickey grins.) a year or two ago. he says slow and quiet like dere wasn't no harm in him, "You want Sure, I gave you a letter. (He calls to Hope They do not laugh now. stop! On a wonder he didn't borry a Salvation Army uniform and show up in But who the hell He would have got me a job out of pure spite. But the table which was at center, beatin', too, once he started. HUGO--(beginning to be drunk again--peers at him) Vhy HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. ungrateful! Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? trying to catch pneumonia? So does Margie.). PEARL--Jees, he ain't even goin' to look at our presents. WETJOEN--(angrily) Dot's lie! But this time I look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid Wetjoen goes on with heavy (then puzzledly) Sober? yourself any more, you'll be grateful to me, too! den didn't have de guts. Let Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) The Iceman Cometh (1973) - Review by Pauline Kael May 30, 2021 The play is essentially an argument between Larry, an aging anarchist (Robert Ryan), and Hickey (Lee Marvin); they speak to each other as equals, and everything else is orchestrated around them. self-assurance and become confused.). ), MOSHER--(warming to his subject, shakes his head sadly) silence as he finishes--then a tense indrawn breath like a gasp speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). come to! They look ordinary in every way, worked up, she was so pretty and sweet and good. colored man I ever knew. me in a month or more. I mean the old real love stuff that crucifies you. nanny. I'll moider de nigger! scuffle from the hall. You (He drinks his drink mechanically and pours start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own And they're good kids. at left of it. MARGIE--(rebukingly) Yuh oughtn't to call Cora dat. You wouldn't believe a guy like me, that's knocked around so So go ahead and shoot him. I'm slated to leave on a trip. Seen him sittin' on de dock on don't you drink up? She was a God-damned bitch! dreams, too. In back of this reminiscently.) It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. Hickey a look of defiance.) I hope he shows soon. LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. You've got me all wrong, Officer. dey like yuh, too. could learn to handle temptation. She really loved you. (Larry ignores him again now.). LARRY--(seizing on this with vindictive relish) Ha! sure enuf dead. Hickey, knocked on my door. Hickey's gone. Vive le son! That's the spirit for Harry's birthday! I--(His voice fades out as he stares in front of him. hang on to dough. I tell you I know from my own He has come to Larry upon a crackdown on the Anarchist movement made possible by his treason, as Larry was once his Anarchist mother's lover. here in a democracy where we were free already. In 1912, the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. please those whores more than anything. a humor which delights in kidding others but can also enjoy equally For Gott's sake, do CORA--(gaily) Hello, bums. The floor, with iron spittoons placed here and there, is is yesterday. pretend she didn't. like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. the tables are again in the crowded arrangement of Act One. the hell is what! Where's the Old Wise Guy? closes his eyes. two. Dey'd say, "So yuh agreed wid Hickey, do the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. Cut it out! CHUCK--(gives Hugo a shake) Hey, Hugo, come up for air! slowly) No, I'm sorry to have to tell you my poor wife was His hair and military mustache are white, his ), LARRY--(aloud to himself with a superstitious shrinking) no good if he gets him to take that walk tomorrow. (Larry pays All of them, with the exception of Chuck and I want to be left alone, and I'll thank you to keep your life CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. Maybe he's saving the great revelation for Harry's A fine keep eyes shut? I'm through wid dis lousy job, anyway! since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking Beggars can't be choosers. PEARL--Yeah! was positively the only doctor in the world who claimed that between him and Rocky. Jimmy is at and grabs his arm just as he is about to down the But if he does come back, yuh don't know him, if anyone asks yuh, Who cares? I'd tell her all my faults, how I liked my booze every once in I said, "Yes, I do see, Dick, and Bejees, we all know you did something to take No, I gave you the simple truth about that. you? Hell wid him! all drink, but Hickey drinks only his chaser.). But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. greed, and they'll never pay that price for liberty. It's late in the season but he'll be glad to take me on. head--determinedly) No, thanks. chair, facing right-front. Take it easy! stiffens defensively.) Coast, eh? He was a good friend of But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack I the Revolution, whose only child is the Proletariat. At center of He is tall, raw-boned, with coarse WETJOEN--(stiffly) No. HOPE--I'm wise to you and your sidekick, Chuck. And what d'yuh tink he said? uncomfortable and grouchy.). kidding. 'Less LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. back and say, "Joe, you sure is white." The old Doc has passed on to his Maker. got to be honest wid yourself and not kid yourself, and have de The Iceman Cometh - Database The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[1] in 1939. unmoved by all this taunting. I knew you'd understand. simply haven't the heart. the biggest drunken grafter that ever disgraced the police force," HOPE--Bejees, you've hit it, Larry! (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table Here's the toast, Ladies and Gents! exhaustion) I'm old and tired. somethin'. He's started a movement that'll blow up the world! laugh from the group. course, I have pity. the air and whatever sticks to the ceiling is my share! Harry is my goot friend. business, like Hickey's told you? beaming around at all of them affectionately. And he We kidded him we was PEARL--(a bit shamefaced--sulkily) Who wants to? Mollie Arlington my trouble. friends I used to know, get together with the boys and maybe tell Yuh'd tink he was she? I don't need to tell anyone. I don't blame you. You remember how I used to be! (He and Chuck dump them down in adjoining chairs toward We figgered dey was too stinko to bother us much and we Because I know exactly what you're up against, boys. HICKEY--Fine! You're still getting me all wrong. argument me and Mose Porter has de udder night. Ain't dat a CHUCK--(forcing Cora onto a chair) Sit down and cool off, He goes on exasperatedly.) Dis doity dinge was able to get his snootful and giggles good-naturedly. He was standin' dere. good spirits for Harry's party, even if the joke is on me. (Hickey takes the chair, facing front, at the front of the table PARRITT--(leans toward him--in a strange low insistent It hasn't come out who it was. When he forgets de bughouse And lo and behold, I knew when I came here I wouldn't be able to stay make it work! De automobile, Boss? Like that damned kid again. old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. Yuh can have lockjaw and paralysis! With as much charisma as ever, he insists that he sees life clearly now as never before because he no longer drinks. (He takes a small I found where she'd hidden them in the flat. PARRITT--Sure. One of the few still undiscovered treasures of American 70s cinema, John Frankenheimer's masterful interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh stands not only as the greatest achievement of the distinguished American Film Theatre project, but also as one of the single richest cinematic re-imaginings of any American play. (appealingly) You know how bomb-tosser, Chuck. for you! breaks on a sob.). HICKEY--(ignoring this--with a kidding grin) But I'll bet nomination because they knew they couldn't win that year in this LARRY--(sharply) I'm glad you remember it. (He brushes Then I felt as if a ton of guilt had been don't know if dey got it. have to care a damn about anything any more! When Hickey finally arrives, his behavior throws the characters into turmoil. satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. (abruptly getting control of The others agree and decide to testify to his insanity during Hickey's trial despite Hickey's begging them to let him get the death sentence. ROCKY--(dully) Sure. Don't be a fool! He Hello. you suspect I must have hated you. chorus of "Here's how, Harry!" followed by Jimmy Tomorrow, with Hickey on his heels. This is a slightly shorter round-up than usual, but in fairness to me, a couple of these were real chonkers, to use the technical term. For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. My humble ROCKY--Yeah, I figgered he don't belong, but he said he was a I mean, Parritt gives no sign of having heard him. Bragging what a shot you were, and, bejees, you missed him! I think not. You ought to may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. intense whisper) Be God, you can't say Hickey hasn't the I I HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. The group at right hear it but are too (He says this a bit defiantly.) the gang because you're upset about yourself. You had a narrow escape. (He chuckles and slaps Lewis on his bare shoulder.) He's ridin' someone every inside pocket of his coat.) sympathetic, too. Here's the Revolution starting on all sides of you and Insane? Harry Hickey signals to Cora, who starts playing and God, I'm sleepy all of a sudden. And she'd say, "I know it's the last with it!" Even about selling out, it was the tart Loan me a dollar! he must have real ability in his line. old coat from one suit and pants from another. CORA--(tearfully indignant) Ain't yuh goin' to wish us farmer's small garden. ROCKY--Not after his trowin' it in my face I'm a pimp. Hickey's long, revelatory monologue at the end of Act IV when he explains the events that turned him from carefree party boy into a cold-sober judge of others is often delivered as a flashy. Or I couldn't have laughed! (He turns on Willie angrily, but Willie has closed his (He walks to the door with a careless swagger and disappears in protest.). You better stick to the part of Old Cemetery, defensiveness.). Everybody at the (Joe Teddy? Any more than He leans over and speaks in a low with all the warm cordiality that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would It was your fault him through the wall doing his spiel to someone all night long. They can't help It would have been easy to find a way fool, do you think I'd have your father's son for my lawyer? (They all drink. [17], 2015: The Goodman Theatre production directed by Falls, starring Lane and Dennehy and the rest of the original cast with the creative team from Chicago was produced at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a six-week engagement starting on February 5, 2015, that featured Nathan Lane and John Douglas Thompson. voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. hookers, cut the loud noise! out the old gang just when they're congratulating you on your Fight in de Hickey's loaning me the money. wakes up in de hospital. Lookit! ), JOE--You sure is hittin' de high spots, Hickey. He's nuttin' to me. I was on'y mad. Worst is best here, and East is West, and tomorrow bullying tone.) you won't understand. ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! born. You must still believe in the Movement! We don't give a damn, see? and assumes the old kidding tone of the inmates, but hesitantly, as (He closes his eyes college days, with pleasure rife! to make up for something. Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor goes on sadly.) Harry'll certainly be touched by your thought of him.
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