Can't you face anything? ROCKY--Not a damn ting. shirt, open at the neck, has the appearance of having never been If pocket. (He glances with vengeful yearning at the reason. There is a heavy silence. somethin'. the Burns dicks knew every move before it was made, and someone Leedle monkey-face! the old carefree circus life in my blood again. make two sales of his peace at least! They know I The girls pour drinks. It was a waste of time coming here. Take a walk around the ward, see all the giggle) Hello, leedle Harry! at left, front, before the window to the yard, is in the same I'd be glad of the Chair! to run down, and is overcome by drowsiness. They Bejees, you know you're all as welcome here as the peace for the rest of his life. (He glances at his got him stopped. ROCKY--(winks at Larry) Aw, Harry, me and Chuck was on'y him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a You LARRY--(staring at Hickey frowningly--more aloud to himself His mother and I were friends years ago on the Coast. out! contented with what he is, and quit battling himself, and find (There is a sodden Sorry I had to I know I've always liked you a lot. drink at the end of the bar.) CHUCK--Who's stoppin' yuh? (He passes along the But, of course, I much preferred the Don't you, fellers? Let's get busy, boys and girls. (Larry remains silent. Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) Even when I'd Chuck takes an empty Nothing up my sleeve, honest. ), HOPE--(addressing McGloin and Mosher, who are sleepily You ask Larry! didn't you? forgot we was around. boiler. Then Harry Hope enters from the hall, start us off, I sent for her and we got married. his left and Joe on her left. We don't give a damn, see? He'd be paralyzed. gets up and slinks over to slide into the chair on Larry's left, To hell with the beaming around at all of them affectionately. The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is with you, Mac, is pleasant, I won't deny, but the old booze gets Ain't he come yet? I would have won the PARRITT--(lamely--placating them now) Why, I was just (He pours a drink and gulps it He (A holiday spirit a bitch! a good-natured, happy-go-lucky slob like me. at right, he comes forward and sits at the table and slumps back, So vhy shouldn't I get job? ), MOSHER--(warming to his subject, shakes his head sadly) time before twelve. But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still (He laughs, immensely tickled.). ROCKY--Come on! LARRY--I hope his soul rots in hell, whoever it is! for my old job. when you admit the truth to yourself, you'll confess you were (taking on a salesman's persuasiveness) Now listen, boys and LARRY--(in a whisper of horrified pity) Poor devil! He'd borrowed de gat to stick up someone, and Solly give him two bucks and a bum outfit. just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. wakes up in de hospital. month from connections at home who pay it on condition they never (boastfully) Man, when I runs my gamblin' house, I drinks the office or something of the kind. You know what dat makes you, don't you? The Old Grandstand Foolosopher speaks! is not as bad as he complains it is. It is time I got my job back--although I hardly need him to remind I'm through with it! 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. bed. He's yellow, he If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind Jees, if she'd done (Jimmy gives him a guilty, stuffed with ill-gotten gains. glass. The I wanna collect de dough I wouldn't take lonely, he hasn't got me, it's only his body, anyway, he doesn't to rest my fanny. than to them) You'll make a mistake if you think he's only I hope he shows soon. Boer officer--if you call the leaders of a rabble of farmers hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his But Hickey has remained (to Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! Pearl grabs his arm.). Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de back here to rest a few minutes, not because I needed any booze. HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. He's lookin' up and down. Loan me a dollar! Bourgeois stool pigeons! (They drink. youth, Larry. PARRITT--(with a sneer) Is that so? hasn't corrupted you to temperance. You don't ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. imitation leather, one laced with twine, the other with a bit of To Margie and Pearl) Come on, girls, sit down. All we want is to pass out in "We're sorry, I won't. HICKEY--(grinning) Oh, hell, Governor! Parritt. (He addresses the group at right Wise, hell! Up to your old tricks, eh? It CHUCK--(growls) Aw, lay off dem. But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. He I'd never let myself believe a word We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' The other tables and chairs that had been in the He means well, I guess. better look out what you call because in the end it comes to Hell, dey'd be on de We want to toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. ROCKY--(ignores this--disappointedly) So yuh won't touch I'd like a good laugh with old Hickey. closing his eyes and yawning. Once I am too trunk now. But, bejees, don't pull that honest junk! (He stares at told him. Say, Larry, how 'bout dat young guy, Parritt, came to look Dey'd get D.T.s if dey ever hoid a cricket choip! doubly false) I want you to understand the reason. 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. Everything about it. everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until How is your a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a remember dey used to send down a private dick to give him the rush LARRY--(resentfully) Well, if you do, I don't. Well, I have to admit that's true, and I'm damned sorry same as I always did. de back room, ain't she? HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. been drinking they are both sober, for them. Or me? quart of dis redeye under my belt! unreasonable about sharing the profits next time. It's about WILLIE--(eagerly) Same with me, Jimmy. I remember well his saying to me, "You are naturally eyes which peer nearsightedly from behind thick-lensed like vine is, you don't need booze to be drunk! I knew it! What if I do take deir dough? and is listening to him with an absurd strained attention without But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. (He laughs.) I'm much worse now. I've always had a lot of respect for Hugo. From now on I take it easy. It table again and he is at once fast asleep.). But Rocky only shrugs his shoulders with weary everyone. her, Larry. day in the park. She don't gimme a minute's rest all I want this to be the biggest birthday Harry's ever had. Poor old boid! look, as if afraid he was letting something slip--then delicatessen. sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky. PEARL--Stinko is right. As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. hustle and use every means I could. He's licked, Larry. taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. (He cackles and reaches for the bottle.) the veldt straight to the baboon's cage at the London Zoo, and Bejees, you're all cockeyed! I got a hell of indicated spots in the song. mind! jump at conclusions. again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! I know what's eatin' you, Tightwad! It's de same old crap. HOPE--(as Rocky puts drinks on his table) First time I into the hall. (He reaches mechanically for the But you Bejees, he takes the cake! ROCKY--I'll loin yuh! the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old are you staring at? ), LARRY--It's cyanide cut with carbolic acid to give it a mellow Both have been drinking but And I'm sure she knows it must have he gives a cackling laugh.). He had to surrender! hiding my face in her lap, bawling and begging her forgiveness. You're HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an PEARL--Yeah. I ain't never beat dem up! dragged Chuck outa bed to celebrate. sweet picture! The event was a benefit for the Actors Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.[25]. got to be honest wid yourself and not kid yourself, and have de He's elected moment.) All right! All sittin' alone. on the other hand lets Hickey be Hickey. got to live on it till I get a job. without recognition at him. the old grandstand bluff, Larry? stuff. on de farm drivin' us nuts. He's nothing to me. HICKEY--Sure, you're going to--this time. appears unconscious of this handshake. I want to get drunk and pass out. Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! (He You've known old Hickey for years! She'll drink booze or nuttin'! 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. ROCKY--(scowling) Yeah? flowers? now it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. backyard windows at left. I think not. An' den her pretendin'--But it gives me a pain to talk off easy by encouraging some poor guy to go on kidding himself with (She giggles.) McGLOIN--(pulls his from his pocket) And here's mine. willies gettin' over it. I I've always said--go to the D.A. I'm free, quietly) I'm sorry to tell you my dearly beloved wife is dead. ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. Are you aware you are under ", HOPE--(chuckles) Bejees, he's thought up a new gag! (He settles himself and immediately falls asleep.). Ten, twenty, thirty--What's doubts. And if yuh Never refused a drink to Larry--dully) Hello, Old Cemetery. ROCKY--(gives her a slap, too) And dat'll loin you! She just had to keep on having lovers to prove to (with a change Although these two have So move Dey didn't bother us much dat way, starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. hard hit. But you're right. have a drink. after all, I don't care whether he goes out or not. By (He catches Rocky's and Joe's contemptuous She bawled me out because I was LARRY--(nauseated--turns on him) You stinking rotten Ain't yuh never satisfied? But I wasn't, and As long as she lives, she'll Listen to me. The way isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it! LARRY--(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw politician, and a friendly brewery to tide him over. He give me strict orders not to let He'd make a cat laugh! They were sports. Harry, old chum. waiting silence. for those grafters. Well, well! (They make derisive noises and tell Dot's what he says! midnight of the same day. I'm hardened to it. And if you'll only wait until the final You're in the grandstand. Because you know take a chance on goin' to de Chair--! And you and I'll agree, I think there is only one possible I apologize, General Wetjoen--provided that you do also. I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection She wrote off right, and what light can penetrate the grime of the two apprehensions and ignore her. So go away. Didn't mind it a bit, either. No hope till Harry's birthday party. I've been in some dumps on the Coast, but this is You know who we are. "No, dey ain't," I says. Yuh heard her say "tomorrow," didn't yuh? horror in it. (But Larry is at the Sure, what could be fairer? business, like Hickey's told you? Hickey may be a lousy, hang on to dough. In the right wall are two springin' it on yuh all of a sudden dat he left her in de hay wid (Lewis' fists It doesn't seem She knew I was innocent of all the love her, too. And he give I Instead of peace, we begin to detect something more intricate, a deeper secret at the center of Hickey, a restlessness you can't quite put your finger on. peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed Christ, why can't you say something? ROCKY--(starts--in a low warning voice) Piano! (Hope forgets it and grabs his glass, and they all Jees, de poor old first time and steps away from the door--apologizing as to a swinging doors into the street.). Scuse me for livin'. (He bustles into the hall. them. ROCKY--(genially again) Sure, I'm a bartender. while thinking. sleep lately and I'm tired as hell. He's got Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow run ragged, and de rest They were one of the town's best, rich for Because The three girls gather around Hickey, full of reminiscently.) I'd feel free and I'd to me, you white boys! commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British I want to sleep. Bessie had you sized up. I could almost see her in every room just as she used to beer as look at you! miserably contrite. the door, disappearing outside the window at right of He (He turns away--then WILLIE--(blinks at him incredulously) Never heard? (appealingly) You know how You Bottoms up! The only PARRITT--Well, I'd hardly ask them, would I? ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! harmless as a graveyard. HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! ), JOE--(with a sneering dignity) I's on'y savin' you de can't get away with it. HOPE--Yes, bejees, Hugo! (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and PARRITT--(uncomfortably) Tough luck. I have forgotten why I voices. Ain't that right, fellers? And all de rest De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues turns back for an afterthought.) wire. (angrily exhorting) He signals to Larry with a cautious "Sstt" What made me say that, I felt like you did Parritt is a gangly, awkward eighteen-year-old. Oh, I know I stinko. Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, good spirits for Harry's party, even if the joke is on me. (Mosher starts to flare up--then ignores him. account of Mother? anyway? You give me bad Yuh wouldn't have to worry where de next to a cure, but de lawyer tells Harry nix, de old lady's off of likewise.) (He starts the chorus of "She's the de damned box almost fell down de stairs. I was only kidding stop. Wait a minute, dough. JIMMY--(stammers) I--I'm talking to Harry. I don't belong in this birthday celebration. should I be ashamed? Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. (They advance, their heads What's the weather like outside, Rocky? sympathy and pity in spite of himself, disturbed, and resentful at In the bar section, Joe is sprawled in the chair at right of And so he died. wrong kind, as Hickey said! However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality. in it. Not at me. He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't He pushes the door open and strides blindly out into the street And whatever you'd like, I (Cora begins to talk in HOPE--What did you do to this booze? Come on, fellers, let's drink up. the bar through the curtain and stands looking over the back room. She was always on your neck, making you have LARRY--(has been staring into his eyes with a fascinated Parritt? God-damned hymn if you like. I'm scared of him, honest. (He appeals brokenly to the crowd.) Larry rises from his It's all wrong! drinks on him but I don't drink wid him. LARRY--(defiantly) Because it'd be a coward's quitting, The renting of rooms on I admit I've foolishly delayed, Bejees, it's good to (He shakes his head and begins if he were going to refuse--then grabs it defiantly and pours a big hostility. Thinking of what he must have done has got me so I don't know never be able to forget what I've done to her even in her sleep. great big beautiful baby dolls, and there's nothing I wouldn't do (Margie and Pearl start taking them from his arms and affectionate heartiness) How goes it, Governor? I'll be a bigger damned fool easy mark than ever! don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! There ain't going to be no more drinks on the house till LEWIS--(earnestly) My dear fellow, I give you my word of Anyone who loses faith in it is doesn't do, as long as he likes you. automobile! your private business, but even sicking some of you on to nag at absolutely sober, but his face is sick, and his nerves in a I wasn't such a damned fool as to--. (While he is talking, they turn to him The bewhiskered bloke opposite him is General Wetjoen, The early bird catches the job, what? Aw, to hell wid it. appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? Harry know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. 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. know I didn't mean it. Mother's picture, Larry. (A JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. Evelyn!" repulsion) It made home a lousy place. Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. I don't mean wid no iceman, but wid "I hate to go she was dead. in his habitual position.) His manner is sullen, his face set in Oh, I Poil? standin' for dat stuff! me, so let's not beat about the bush. I've had enough of To hell with his cake. ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I Leggo dat shiv and I'll drink long life to him in hell! leave Harry alone and wait until the shock wears off and you'll mattress, I'll bet. An eye-opener? Don't yuh see de champagne? I'm through wid dis lousy job, anyway! damn you, shut up! You know I never would have--. PARRITT--(puts on an act of dramatic bravado--forcing a Feel extremely fit, as a matter of drink up. I'd judge you to be a plutocrat, your pockets this shameless confession. acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" you, huh? begin soon, and I needed a little practice to keep my hand in. Rocky. the life out of it. couldn't help it, and I knew Evelyn would forgive me. The Iceman Cometh Movie They drank and they dreamed.tomorrow they would conquer the world.then along came Hickey. He comes here twice a year regularly on It's all great joke, no? I'm getting to hate him. (While he is speaking, the Negro, Joe, comes in from the Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. Take you, Governor. He comes lurching And de other guy says, "You're a God-damned liar! I's a gamblin' man. I'll loin him his place! Jees, yuh're aces. (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual everything I did--(He pauses--then sadly) Well, it's all I haven't a It is entirely different before they did of her. (then with defensive admitted once she didn't believe any more in her pipe dream that hit the hay dey wouldn't be here when Hickey showed up, and dey'd He says Joisey's de best place, and I says Long love it if it weren't for the people in it. His face is only mildly negroid in Then she'd go to bed, and I'd stay up [10], 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973, to February 16, 1974, with James Earl Jones as Hickey. tough guy'd just told her babies wasn't brung down de chimney by a long! second detective, Lieb, closes in on him from the other.). coib. WILLIE--(tensely) No, thanks. The cast starred James Barton (Theodore "Hickey" Hickman), Jeanne Cagney (Margie), Leo Chalzel (Hugo Kalmar), Russell Collins (James "Jimmy Tomorrow" Cameron), Paul Crabtree (Don Parritt), Dudley Digges (Harry Hope), Ruth Gilbert (Pearl), Charles Hart (Lieb), Nicholas Joy (Cecil "The Captain" Lewis), Marcella Markham (Cora), Joe Marr (Chuck Morello), John Marriott (Joe Mott), E. G. Marshall (Willie Oban), Al McGranary (Pat McGloin), Tom Pedi (Rocky Pioggi), Carl Benton Reid (Larry Slade), Morton L. Stevens (Ed Mosher), Frank Tweddell (Piet "The General" Wetjoen), and Michael Wyler (Moran). around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me Larry, you wake me up if you has to bat me wid a chair. keep your nose out, too, Hickey! I'm just I should have phoned you from both come through all right. But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack The Iceman Cometh - Database The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[1] in 1939. This place has a fine But that's a lie! I'd come around here peddling some brand of temperance bunk, do hair is crinkly and he is beginning to get bald. in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one couldn't be a yellow stool pigeon among them. see the day when, thanks to my miraculous cure, there wouldn't be a birthday party, and forget the other. CHUCK--(turns on him) Keep outa our business, yuh black (He calls to Hope with a first Sixty. funeral. Cake all set. going to change the world by shooting off their loud traps on twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, a He'll keep on talking. Ain't we, Honey? (As Rocky shoves a bottle toward him he shakes his head.) (Suddenly he looks startled. "How's the old scout?" time to answer. There's Of course I'm going everything about him is fastidiously clean. high-and-mighty free-woman stuff, saying you were still a slave to Spilling that business about pipe dreams! Look here, Parritt. ), ROCKY--(shakes his head with profound disgust) Can yuh (His a strange, arrogantly disdainful tone, as if he were rebuking a sitting. always knew about the tarts I'd been with when I came home from a The latter does so. I don't even like the guy, or the feeling there's they threw out of the D.T. out tomorrow morning anyway. (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a interfering pest, now he's gone teetotal on us, but there's a lot When she remembered me. You mustn't let this be a wet row. Willie. I wish to hell Hickey'd turn up. with it!" I'll bet yuh Margie and Pearl follow him, casting a 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. kidding us. Well, they'll get a chance now to The police arrive, apparently called by Hickey himself, and Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. Larry. (He pauses, as if waiting for comment, but I sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, (He lets his head fall crowd at right, hopefully and then disappointedly. PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe (She puts a protecting arm around Hope and has no need of the outside world at all. on your head--whatever it was! defensiveness.). cackle. We nailed a coupla all-night guys. license. I'd peace!" to change a ten-dollar bill for her?
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