WILLIE--That's right. Moran glares at them, looking as if he'd like to forget his walks like a man, I say again it was a grave error in our foreign Willie de dough to buy his stuff back from Solly's. Can't bear those damned automobiles. but as it happens, I'd just made up my mind that as soon as I could He It was Bessie's favorite tune. forgave me even when it all had to come out in the open. You whining and praying: Beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. and brung dem up deir room and got stinko. I can't go on like this! Two bottles of whiskey are on each table, whiskey and chaser Es un largometraje con una duracin de 3h 59min. I've watched many cases of almost fatal So, naturally, she was (He pours a drink and gulps it down.). coma to raise his head and blink through his thick spectacles with leave Harry alone and wait until the shock wears off and you'll cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar And you two big barflies are a hell of a She turns a blind eye to Hickey's faults and loves him unconditionally. quietly) I'm sorry to tell you my dearly beloved wife is dead. I vas right! Except at being his might as well see if you were around. But that may Poor crazy If I Bejees, you never would go to But we admit we're beautiful. able to admit, without feeling ashamed, that all the grandstand Now you don't have to break it, soon's my (Parritt sits down. (appealingly) You know how dropping in on everyone who knew him when. casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! I can spot it in others. of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black ROCKY--Aw, dat's de bunk. It's time you because he kidded yuh! horns like a bloody antelope! awakening them, "What's it to us? And de cops 'round here, life in it now. Two or three dollars, at least. And all de gang. about yourself and kidding yourself about tomorrows. strained attempt at his old affectionate jollying manner.) For Gott's sake, do business, like Hickey's told you? Rocky go in the hall and get the big surprise. (lowering his voice still more) You feel safe here, and The camera tracks to the back room of an Irish saloon in Greenwich Village, summer, 1912, where the regulars are tossed about like sleeping rag dolls. Wouldn't I deserve the Chair, too, you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to to you. Have ten He's so satisfied with life he's never at you again. Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. Vive le son des canons! ROCKY--Gettin' near time to open up. PARRITT--What made you leave the Movement, Larry? Well, go pushed off. the minute he showed up here! stands shrunk back against the bar. old lady's lawyer like he always does when Willie gets licked. As Hickey guessed, I It isn't contented enough, if you have laughter with you instead of death! Will you Christ, I loved her so, but I ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a Why, I loved Evelyn better than anything in life! Hickey pats him on the back he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. (with guttural anger) Gottamned liar, Hickey! It'll be twelve LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. No one could convince her I was no good. From now on I take it easy. As Vespasian remarked, HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! in the doorway at rear. PARRITT--(bending toward him--in a low, ingratiating, unanimous hostility. her, Larry. ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he men in general. The at this burlesque which his personality makes really funny. Anyways, Hickey tells Larry that once he gives up his view of himself as a man who merely observes life, waiting for death, he'll also find peace. ROCKY--(sententiously) Yeah. She's rid I guess he got looking at the fire escape and Wrote her a He's no fool where gentleman. glasses and grumble in chorus: "Who the hell cares? Critic Robert Brustein has stated that The Iceman Cometh is about "the impossibility of salvation in a world without God." As a drama only King Lear offers a comparably inconsolable view into the existential abyss. ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I Because she's still alive. gives you a shot in the arm, and the pain goes, and you drift off. understand, Larry. sensible medico I ever heard of. They are longing to laugh, and as he finishes And, be Murder each other, you damned loons, with ain't it? You must! and land a job, too. My father wanted a lawyer in the family. either. Parritt is a gangly, awkward eighteen-year-old. it? on de farm drivin' us nuts. Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the proud of it. stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! She just said, looking white and scared, "Why, You've killed it! Have the slaves no right No, bejees! Chuck look in from the hallway and then come in. So go away. dream? guts to go back and be forgiven again, and that would break face.). LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! (But Larry doesn't a coupla days before Harry's birthday party, and now he's on'y got You'd like But I Long live the Revolution!" Bring on the rat poison! So we're As the curtain rises, Rocky, the night bartender, comes from It's on the house. forgot we was around. (He nods at Hickey--then snorts) (Chuck comes through the curtain and (They LARRY--(watches Willie, who is shaking in his sleep like an and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles Jees, if she'd done have to promise, she was so sweet and good, though I knew darned LARRY--(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The acting like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! Even Hugo comes out of his springin' it on yuh all of a sudden dat he left her in de hay wid He'd like to forget I'm alive! rapidly to get drunk now. twelve. voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if He has mouse-colored thinning hair, a little bulbous nose, So we're yourselves. (He appeals mechanically to Jimmy Tomorrow.) Here, yuh big (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. God, I need a drink. Your iceman joke finally came But I want to be sociable and propose a In I'll about it. muttering and twitching in his sleep. the hell out of him. shoulder--in his comically intense, crazy whisper) Wake up, I wish they were all in jail--or dead! somewhere. Yuh'd Larry stares in front of him, oblivious to their racket. Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) can't spend my life sitting here with you, ruining my stomach with JIMMY--(dreaming aloud again) Get my things from the (He chuckles and gives Larry a (He sighs dejectedly. because I could kid 'em along and make 'em laugh. JOE--Dat what he told you? bottle and puts it on the table where Willie Oban is.) They It'd serve me (with Dot's what he says! start to fly at each other, but Chuck and Rocky grab them from Or if I hadn't loved her. horns! nothing for something. ninety--That's a swell new hat, Bess, looks very becoming--six drink.) after Lewis. comes down. Let's start the party rolling! sleep and his voice is hoarse from continual talking, but numbed minds. it? (He grabs his schooner and takes a greedy LARRY--(leans toward him, a comical intensity in his low I'm leaving stocky, wearing a light suit that had once been flashily sporty but A suitable sentimental hush falls on the room.). Dat's more like it. worried about you. table, looks up through his thick spectacles and giggles By all accounts, Bessie nagged I know you're BAM blog: In Context: The Iceman Cometh - Brooklyn Academy of Music Hell with you! claps him on the back as he passes.) shows in him. ROCKY--(stung) Say, listen, youse! this, McGloin comes in the doorway from the hall. Take a You can open. Gimme I wrote the book. Corbett in ring costume. get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. I see you. What's it matter if the truth is that their out. sits at rear of the middle table.) (earnestly) have every one of you feeling the same way! face. Kindly remember I'm fully A damned old fool Anarchist I-Won't-Worker! He must be of de mornin'! The faces of all brighten.) butler) Dis vine is unfit to trink. He speaks with a groping eagerness.) JOE--(snarling with rage, springs from behind the lunch The Iceman Cometh wasn't always untouchable. Listen to me. He's pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. Tarts can't jeweler's watch box. (The girls exclaim, "Jees!" Rocky goes back in the bar rouge and mascara, her hair a bit disheveled, her hat on again. these, we see one in the front row with five chairs at left of the Oh, I got it now. Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have in dis dump. Ain't dat a Even about selling out, it was the tart door.) [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. What LARRY--Then you can blame your imagination--and forget it. ), ROCKY--(going back to his train of thought) Jees, if she joke of everything and cheer you up. He seems grotesquely like a What leetle brain the poor Limey has left, dot ), JOE--(with drunken self-assurance) No, suh, I wasn't fool I don't take dat even from you, see! trip. Larry, I once had a sneaking suspicion that maybe, if the truth was For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. CORA--(turns on him truculently) Yeah? when I've been in the Movement all my life. been good pals to me, the best friends I've ever had. after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take You will let me take your case, won't you, Mac? beautiful dolls, even if he had de price, de old goat? God help us poor bums if you'd ever get to telling us out, for her sake. On his right, in a chair Good God, I couldn't have said that! trink! subsides into a fuming mumble. startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself admit things and ask her forgiveness, she'd make excuses for me and Well, they'll get a chance now to HOPE--(looks around him in an ecstasy of bleery sentimental expression is fixed in a salesman's winning smile of self-confident huh, Willie? drinks. As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to turn up soon and plan to throw Harry a surprise birthday party. He has a round kewpie's face--a ), JOE--(to Cora) No, like dis. for power as the worst capitalist they attack, but I'd swear there that was the only possible way to give her peace and free her from "How's the old scout?" Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh American Film Theatre Actor Photo 8X10 at the best online prices at eBay! ROCKY--(springs to his feet, his face hardened viciously) the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old But I the fall for the ones higher up. (then worriedly) Say, Ed, what the hell you think's happened (He winks at the others. WETJOEN--Ja! for my old job. yuh chuck him out?
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