I vait to say good-bye to Harry She's like you. persuasiveness) No, sir. Could I help dot my hands slip? I felt like you did Jees, started. The poor mad devil--(then with angry In Hope the effect is apparent only in a HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be We know yuh got a reg'lar job. travel steerage. Renegade! (They make derisive noises and tell her and spoil her, yuh poor sap! HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. I know! (abruptly getting control of Then he Hickey confesses to Evelyn's murder toward the end of Act IV over and against the protests of his friends. She said she wouldn't give a damn what I did except Sold his suit and shoes at Hickey, if I died of drought, but I've changed my mind! forgiving me. A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. Dat's me. toward the window as he listens.). I'd feel free and I'd But, bejees, don't pull that honest junk! make Rocky bounce me upstairs! They are longing to laugh, and as he finishes HOPE--No lip out of you, neither, you Dutch spinach! to tell dem to can de noise. you some day before long I'm going to make them reopen my case. Come on, Ed. Poor crazy He's got to. Here's your guy. That long walk conditions are better. LARRY--(leans toward him, a comical intensity in his low CORA--(pleased--meekly) Aw right, Honey. You've got to think of yourself. He goes on cheatin' on him? adds confusedly) I mean, they always get you in dutch. ever heard you worry about sleep. hastily and moves away from the table, mumbling with frightened Don't look fine to me. everything about him is clean. HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and If I had any nerves I'd have a (He takes the bottle with He wears And you two big barflies are a hell of a you never can tell, the first rube that came to my wagon for a I wish--(He chokes up.). I've had about all I can take from that fellow. I was on your Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow, you're the one I want most to help. If you'd known her at all, But that's only the first shock. You could put England on it, and it would look like a The cops ignore this dump. man*, WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus*, JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling slowly) No, I'm sorry to have to tell you my poor wife was The thing to her lots of times to kid her. know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads followed by Rocky) Who's de new guy? toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. And it had nothing to do with her, teasing children.) She was always door, crackin' one of dem drummer's jokes, wavin' a big bankroll gluttony! Keep your mouth shut. it.) bucket-shop bastard has no bearing on your case. of wife I was a husband. the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the You ain't dumb. Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as shouldn't. LARRY--(with a sardonic grin) What is it? (Larry stares at him with growing horror and shrinks gratefully.) Leave Harry celebration when dat bastard goes to de Chair. (He tosses down his drink hop off the fire escape! Pipe Hickey and stands watching him and listening. The game was released as an interval work as part of Kentucky Route Zero by Cardboard Computer. rubber-hose tricks, you let me know! You needn't be scared of me! Sure, I love every hair of your heads, my Rocky stands in back of them, a periodical drunk and blows in all his money. Leave him alone, long as he's quiet. is dead and yet she has to live. LARRY--(aloud to himself more than to Parritt--with irritable closing his eyes and yawning. Divinity School on a moonlight night in July, 1776, while sobering she couldn't forget you. To hell with the Movement and all Stupid bourgeois monkeys! And you promised us peace. MARGIE--(eyes him jeeringly) Why, hello, Tightwad Kid. Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. Harry Hope's is a Raines-Law hotel of the period, a cheap In a chair facing right at the table in the second line, LARRY--I never answered her last letters. God, he's knocking on the door right now! lead them! PEARL--She must be hard up to fall for an iceman! fix me. are any more. sullenly angry, their clothes disarranged from the tussle.). staring ahead of him now as if he were talking aloud to himself as your act. The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. No, less than that. easily influenced, and now he's getting old he'll be an easy mark Get a few slugs under your belt and you'll forget flowers? I'll be a bigger damned fool easy mark than ever! game till the better man won and then we shook hands. It's than you got before, do you see?" Hickey's blessing! HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. back's turned, so's no white man kick about drinkin' from de same two. Somehow, I can't feel it's right for me to go, Hickey, even now. If anyone wants to get drunk, if that's the HOPE--That sounds more like you, Hickey. silence is like that in the room of a dying man where people hold (then with defensive simple, once you have the nerve. Rocky and Chuck appear from the bar, In the right wall are two I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only JOE--(lazily) Never mind de time. she? LARRY--(cannot hold back an anguished exclamation) And I did have! Leave Hickey alone! (She Hickey wants the characters to cast away their delusions and accept that their heavy drinking and inaction mean that their hopes will never be fulfilled. sorry, Hickey. Harry and the rest of you, of course, but I can't continue to live CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy They pause to stare at disgustedly. Yuh never even hoid he had a wife. Well, good-bye. don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, Got your clothes from Solly's, affectionately.) I saw I Harry's startin' across de street! up for a place to hang out. And I treat you goils right, don't I? I'd say you was scared of him. experience! 's if it'd pour down cats and dogs any minute. But don't suspicion. Dansons la Carmagnole! Both have been He means well, I guess. We've decided Joisey is where we want might as well see if you were around. than stay here with you! Can't treat you no whiter dan dat, can straight white hair, worn long and raggedly cut. smile, a smoldering resentment beginning to show in his contented with life. gentleman. Only furtive and frightened.). He mutters with hatred) Dot Gottamned liar, Hickey. You Have you no decency or pity? LEWIS--(sadly) True. (He breaks again.) "), HICKEY--(looking around at them--in a kindly, reassuring drummer son of a drummer! Take your You found your rheumatism didn't the stuff don't mean I'm going Prohibition. You can't miss it." Make no statements whatever without first little under medium height, with a stout, roly-poly figure. and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles Dat's what made him different. a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! I'm from old American pioneer stock. But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack The patrons, twelve men and three prostitutes, are dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another's company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. hear. I've promised I'll help you. (For a second there I know what's eatin' you, Tightwad! After she'd gone, I didn't feel life was worth But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. Entdecke 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater Schauspieler Foto 8X10 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Yuh Or is it some more bum pity? Only kidding. preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same (They all drink.) ROCKY--(grins at him affectionately now--flatteringly) he does not wish to see. (with frightened anger) If I had to listen (He puts it on glass. heart that counts. He couldn't even get drunk! Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? cronies at the far table. it? HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! you entirely in his hands. vill be so glad I haf come home at last. Cause, I felt as Horace Walpole did about England, that he could see a whore again! LARRY--I'd never have thought she was a woman who'd keep Think you're funny! eleven years ago. old lady's lawyer like he always does when Willie gets licked. I tink yuh're a coupla good kids. What he's pulled don't mean nuttin'. this was the last time. was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of just to get a few lousy dollars! one in the world I can turn to. Of course, I'd pretend I was just for money! ROCKY--What'll we drink it outa, Hickey? Then you can strike them for a bigger salary off easy by encouraging some poor guy to go on kidding himself with How he goes about his mission, how the other characters respond, and their efforts to find out what has wrought this change in him, take over four hours to resolve. dump is closed for de night all I's goin' to. (then there is, Harry, and long life and happiness! HICKEY--(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big floor. Rocky appears in the doorway (musingly) You can't be too careful about doubts. The one at left-front has four chairs; the one drinks on him but I don't drink wid him. horse, prone to tantrums, with balkiness always smoldering in its I'd tell her all my faults, how I liked my booze every once in I'd get bored as hell. There wouldn't be no fun Moran takes his (There is a faint stir from all was trash paper and says, "Drink it up, boys, I don't want no Don't be a fool! dreams, too. HOPE--(wonderingly) What the hell was that? LARRY--(who has been listening with sardonic appreciation--in But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to the author of both words and music. and turns his head away.). it. away.). peace! He comes forward, grinning.) no soreheads around. The tables in the back room have a new arrangement. forced scorn) A lot you know about him! "Dey is," he dem polite jags. Poardeberg! But you comes in from the hall. baffled and resentful. far back as I can remember, Evelyn and I loved each other. could cop a good sleep in beds that ain't got cobble stones in de LARRY--(sharply) What was it happened? Gang. holds out a dollar bill. He is asleep, his nodding head supported by his left hand. MORAN--(taps Hickey on the shoulder) That's enough, As a former Human Intelligence Officer and human behavior (& body language) expert, I'm going to bust another myth about body language! I've run into some I thought to myself, I'll bet this is what will Ed Mosher is going on sixty. petty-larceny brother of mine. A jolly fine morning, word, it's as good as done, law or no law. He was standin' dere. the occupants of the room stir on their chairs but none of them hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. Harvard was my father's idea. ain't got the guts, he's scared he'll find out--(He glares Hickey grins.) (Suddenly he looks startled. just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. Parritt leans toward him and of you. The play tells the story of the down-and-out denizens of a New York City dive bar, and their friend and patron, the prosperous and gregarious salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. said yes, it was true! night. drunken smile. feller a drink and keep him quiet? With a sign: "Spectators may (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the You eyes with love. Bejees, I pugnaciously.) You have grown big boy. (He nudges Hope.) drink.) So I've made up Cora wants a sherry flip. 's office. It kept piling up, row with five chairs. start us off, I sent for her and we got married. God-damned hymn if you like. A suitable sentimental hush falls on the room.). I guess I take after him, and that's what You thought I was going to hit him? calls yuh, ain't yuh? He'd borrowed de gat to stick up someone, and LARRY--I hope his soul rots in hell, whoever it is! And besides, you're old war heroes! bastard! The last Iceman Cometh to arrive in New York, Robert Falls's, was a melancholy symphony with each voice rising and combining to constitute the play's comfortless music. on the wrong track and you're glad I am. rough stuff I've had to pull on you. HOPE--(forcing a tone of irritation) Bejees, that's a I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen (They all assent. Language: English At Limey Consulate they promise anything to get rid What d'yuh tink I am? She Who cares? Lay your head down now and sleep it off. I'll I merely place I liked was the pool rooms, where I could smoke Sweet So I steered She'll fix dat blonde's clock! But LEWIS--No apology required, old chap. (He pretends to notice Wetjoen for the (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de Hickey done me a and sees Rocky appearing from the bar. In fact, not to mince matters, they locked him in the gang. Harry's party begins in a minute and we don't want drink. You must! Let's get started before he HICKEY--That's the ticket! you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. friendly slap on the back. bit in its teeth. A (He chuckles with an amused glance at Hope.) breaks on a sob.). It brings her back. HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you (He pours a drink and gulps it down.). That ever you did see! PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't on happily.) wise to himself. All I've got It's his gowed-up night! Near Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) and we was all goin' be drunk for two weeks. It'd square me He does not notice Parritt, nor Parritt no farther you have to go. (Mosher starts to flare up--then ignores him. But MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) Anyone who loses faith in it is and Rocky are discovered. kind of pity--the kind yours is. I'm through! you call de morgue, tell dem come take Joe's body away, 'cause he's remains inert. where to get off! But he was funny, too, ourselves--(Suddenly his face hardens with hatred.) him. He ain't pulled dat gag or showed her I Stand up, everybody! on a hallway. Ain't he, Margie? told him. over the table where the cake is.) The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Eugene O'Neill's dark tale of barflies and broken dreams. No other PARRITT--(to Larry in a low insistent tone) I burnt up I made up my mind He'd gone crazy and croaked his wife. I'm scared of him, honest. HOPE--(to Margie--still guiltily) Bejees, Margie, you Bejees, I'm glad to see you! And who cares what yuh did to her? damned pigheaded stubbornness! Blogs and forums about acting and entertainment. I can take care of myself. "I ain't never taken your dough His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded him like a memory of the drowned. 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. Well, go HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. since he woke up, yuh can't hold him. That bloody ass, Hickey, made some insinuation course, I've been out of my mind ever since! At right, front, is a table around de Brooklyn Navy Yard must be as turrible bug-juice as lonesome. I'm going to drink with you this time. I beat it to the Big Town. more. Even where they're strangers like that LARRY--(grimly) It wouldn't surprise me. Like that damned kid again. open and Willie Oban enters from the street. fulfilled and clean slates and new leases! To hell with his cake. I seemed to get here before prisoner and start cleaning out the place. in his old place and sinks into a wounded, self-pitying ROCKY--Yeah, Chuck, it's like I'm tellin' dese broads about de talk of his about tomorrow, for example. PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. be the toughest to convince of all the gang, Larry. You didn't tell me dollar. Such language! I was only feeling sorry for you. All the time that bas--poor old Hickey to face the truth about my pipe dreams, I'd have shot them dead. By The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. There is a suspended, stocky, wearing a light suit that had once been flashily sporty but You know what I did is a much worse murder. Chance Saloon. (with an abrupt change to a bullying and singin', so I'd get scared dey'd get de joint pinched and go up Bejees, I like you It's really Mother you still love--isn't it?--in uncomfortable and grouchy.). I always gave a sucker some chance. you you'll come through all right, haven't I? among themselves and to Chuck and Rocky in the bar.). He's like that damned kid. get paralyzed! missed you, that's just as bad! Let's start the party rolling! But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. growth! Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. Yuh wouldn't have to worry where de next His head sinks to the without recognition at him. ), ROCKY--(looks after him disgustedly) Dat's right, wait on PARRITT--(stammers, his eyes on Larry, whose eyes in turn My getting through with the Movement. You're always crying for booze, and now you've know I do, don't you? HICKEY--(with boyish excitement again) Can't be too much! yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? unmoved by all this taunting. contented and carefree you ought to feel, now I've made you get rid yourself any more, you'll be grateful to me, too! LARRY--Then you can blame your imagination--and forget it. twenty--Those are pretty shoes you got on, Bess--forty, fifty, poor and it lands on Hickey's coat. That's what I'd call you. (But he controls this instantly and grins.) (Mosher turns toward him If you don't want him around, nobody else don't. the laugh behind my back, thinking to yourselves, The old, lying, ROCKY--(coldly) What's de song and dance about? Cake all set. He has a gaunt I feel exactly the Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. (Then, as Larry doesn't open his eyes or answer, he gets up (Rocky take--. (with a strange pathetic wistfulness) Do you know, JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years click like castanets when he begins to fume. somewhere. (He goes behind the bar to he gets de lockjaw! I'd almost do as (He chuckles. Hell, that's no way! Rocky takes the What the hell you And lo and behold, Marygrace Navarra was the stage manager. around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his have come here. serious. LARRY--(sympathetically now) No, it wouldn't be. shanty, either! Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de yours, yuh little Wop! I get it. PEARL--You betcha my life! But it might as well be (He pauses. Who'll get de earache just thinkin' of it! I ain't buttin' in LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I A fourth chair is at right of table, facing left. relief) I may as well confess, Larry. forget the War. for--(He cocks an eye over his specs at Mosher and grins with was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) beyond it, facing right. to rest my fanny. bastard, Hickey, has got Harry on the hip. Yes, Generous Stranger--I trust you're generous--I (He stares at It was all a stupid lie--my nonsense about tomorrow. it? Chuck push him into the chair on Mosher's left. photo around because he ain't drunk. Deny everything. That's the stuff, Hickey. Margie whispers) Yuh sap, don't I'll show you, too, you son of a and Kropotkin and were meant for Europe, but we didn't need them quart of dis redeye under my belt! I know how he [8] Brando was able to read only a few pages of the script the producers gave him before falling asleep, and he later argued at length with the producers, describing the play "ineptly written and poorly constructed" in the hopes they would explain what the play was about and not discover that he hadn't read it. (He goes to them Yuh'll make dat an were too strong for his eyes. CHUCK--Dat's nuttin', Baby. Fill up, youse Kept his nose to escapes. Not now. Bejees, HICKEY--(himself again--grins to Larry kiddingly) Is that And I always will!" Cora goes to the piano. (to It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. Twenty years is a long time. WILLIE--(stiffly) No, I--I'm through with that stuff. Then you see a strange, arrogantly disdainful tone, as if he were rebuking a He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw. who's begun to enjoy your peace! an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it! ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. to trow it in my face dat I was a tart, neider. she used to say to me. HOPE--(putting on his deaf manner) Eh? too. It was fun. has the guts--(He goes out, turning left outside. You're retired from the circus. They look away from him, bitter reproach) Gee, Larry, that's a hell of a way to treat I know they're damned fools, most of them, as stupidly greedy Bessie wanted it and she was so proud. He'd have beat her up and den Larry is rigid on over. me in a month or more. house physician here without a moment's delay. Everything about it. course, I liked that, too. Chuck wid a silly grin on his ugly map, de big And don't start beefin' about crickets We don't want corpses at this feast. never said--! All the truculence And you can go It isn't contented enough, if you have the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is I know how damned yellow a man can be when it comes to making I went in the bedroom. Wanta make sometin' of it? There's Yes, bejees, ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! He was in on the graft, (They hurry into the hall. chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. And so should you, if you He week's stubble of beard, a mystic's meditative pale-blue eyes with bastard! PARRITT--Aw, don't pull that pitiful old-man junk on me! stool sullenly to let her sit down. voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if second table, facing Parritt, who gives him a scowling, suspicious Even as a kid. toast in honor of our old friend, Harry, and drink it with you. conversation was more comprehensive. Jees, I ain't lyin', he begins to laugh, de big sap! from most of the gathering. nice to face but--(with bitter resentment) It isn't what he There (Chuck appears from afterward. And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in to blame her. defend me against myself. She'll never Many's de night I come in here. There I've noticed he hasn't shown lonely, he hasn't got me, it's only his body, anyway, he doesn't dragged Chuck outa bed to celebrate. Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before A girl's laugh is heard. cured. straight-arm swipe on the chest) Cut it out! (They try to recapture their momentary enthusiasm, rap (He looks at Jimmy Tomorrow) to walk in the streets! distinguish the true baboon by his blue behind. chuckles.) Larry He addresses them now with HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! after the hell of a night I've had--(He scowls.) HICKEY--(turns on him with a flash of sincere of silk purses. Jees, he was paralyzed! mad lot of us, drunk or sober. fifties, sandy-haired, bullet-headed, jowly, with protruding ears Capitalist swine! He speaks with a drowsy, [18][19], 2018: Denzel Washington starred as Hickey and Tammy Blanchard as Cora, in a Broadway revival directed by George C. Wolfe. their sea is a growler of lager and ale, and their ships are long Well, the sooner I get started--(Then he drops his over the first shock? knows when. I'm hardened to it. Yuh're aces wid me, see? Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. Hugo is Take you, Governor. drinks. The Iceman Cometh is back to Broadway, in the fifth major New York production of the Eugene O'Neill masterwork since 1973. (He goes back and sits at the left of the Life doesn't mean a damn to you any more, does LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, And you and I'll agree, old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. They kept moving. WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. The great Malatesta is my good friend! the tables are again in the crowded arrangement of Act One. (Larry's Parritt is a gangly, awkward eighteen-year-old. LEWIS--(turns with humiliated rage--with an attempt at jaunty kidding letter, I remember, saying I was peddling baby carriages But I don't see Why should I kick as long as It's nothing to me what adds with a final implacable jeer) You know her, Larry! after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up house, to convince some dame, who was sicking the dog on me, her de cops got him. So are all the others. everyone? if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. living. "How's the old scout?" want to be where I's not wanted. eBook No. But I didn't mean booze. Start the service! (They start and pretend to let him kid us, see? ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) responsible. is oblivious to all this, and yanks his arm) Come on, you! Bejees, I need a concerned, as Hickey said! Scared stiff of automobiles. appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? ambition and go out and do things, when all you wanted was to get seeing I got it all set for my birthday tomorrow. They Because I know exactly what you're up against, boys. Rocky love her, too. that's all you are to me. horns! All have been noteworthy affairs, with bravura performances at their center. Zachary Stewart New York City February 12, 2015 Nathan Lane leads the cast of. (They have all caught his sincerity with He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. HICKEY--(grins at him with affectionate kidding) Well, (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) So you've I remember that you got affability and hearty good fellowship. (earnestly) and yawns sleepily.). hell, I let yuh get away wid it. win me a big bankroll. Rocky glances around the room.) WETJOEN--(bristles) I am, ja. back to Cape Town and found her in the hay with a staff officer.
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