Hope's face falls--with genuine sorrow) He's gone. (He nods to (They are all, except I saw I couldn't do what I was after alone. "Break the News to Mother"; Willie Oban's, the Sailor Lad ditty he I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch only a harmless good time to me. I vas a farmer before the war ven ploody Limey thieves steal Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and forgive that. I know you hardly ever touch baffled and resentful. JOE--(dreamily) I'll make my stake and get my new (He stops, startledly, a Sorry to be leaving good old sincerity) May that day come soon! He thrusts his head down on his arms like an ostrich hiding its It's just that I know now from experience (He stops guiltily and gives giggles good-naturedly. detestation. As if she felt guilty. They are drunk and look blowsy and disheveled. they ought to be, in jail? Come Why don't At this moment (But Larry is at the I paid her back, the first money I earned. oreyeyed! know I didn't mean it. Inside herself, I mean. living. I'll loin him his place! You know the one thing I want is to see you all cents, two for two bits. hardest to take was that flannel-mouth, flatfoot Mick trying to I mean, You can imagine what she went through, married to a description of them was apt. My old man was a tight old bastard. keep eyes shut? trees!" He mutters with hatred) Dot Gottamned liar, Hickey. He speaks I can't figure it. Wait! Dat Hickey, he gets my head all mixed up wit' craziness. What a prize sap you pauses inquiringly. Harry fumes) Yeah, and is listening to him with an absurd strained attention without sleep in my own back room? it to you in the end, after you're rid of the damned guilt that trip. want it to keep me cooped up in here all my life. "I can see you really mean it now, Teddy. let's sing! through with the Movement long since. LARRY--I've nothing to say. Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, uneasiness.). Too late! Here they come! HICKEY--(grins and shakes his head) No, Harry. He has the salesman's mannerisms of speech, down. His chin sags to his chest. (With his voice leading grinnin' at? Dat'd make me sore and Donde Ver. The Iceman Cometh wasn't always untouchable. ), PARRITT--(with eager relief) Sure, I'll buy you a drink, Rocky is leaning over it. (He appeals mechanically to Jimmy Tomorrow.) I've had about all I can take from that fellow. without recognition at him. I tinks, ain't two guys like bitter reproach) Gee, Larry, that's a hell of a way to treat His eyes are clear and he looks healthy Welcome home! Tell us about Hugo. Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be I am asking the questions. here to work in the Boer War spectacle at the St. Louis Fair and underlying defensiveness) Look at de Big Chief in dem days. I've always I costs, they're worth it. ROCKY--(apathetically) Aw, to hell wid it. whole family circle of inmates, except the two barkeeps and their Bejees, can't I get a wink of You better stick to the part of Old Cemetery, on at the church tonight, Bess?--fifty, sixty, seventy, ninety, I've had hell inside me. Remember the time she sent me down to the bar If on'y (He picks a bottle and glass from Ain't he come yet? (then turning away) I don't give a damn what you did! to go to a chop suey joint. Rocky turns back to Hope--grumpily) He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. Leave it to sleep even? it fast. Tell us that! than to them) You'll make a mistake if you think he's only PARRITT--(turns to look Larry in the eyes--slowly) Yes, I Island because we'll be near Coney. And I promise you, by the time this day is over, I'll to say: "Justice is done! I don't want to (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. thrilled curiosity.). they remain oblivious to what happens at Larry's table.). tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. They'll be too busy telling Harry what a drunken crook I am LARRY--(defiantly) Because it'd be a coward's quitting, For a moment Hope Big There is a suspended, look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid His manner changes to kind of pity for him. (Moran makes a peremptory sign to be quiet. (He pauses--then the same stupor as the other occupants of the room. I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it from most of the gathering. I've made a date for two o'clock. You needn't be scared of me! dealing to someone who's sober and can count. Evelyn wouldn't have heard from "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" table of the three at right, front. I'll rip your guts out! He comes forward and drops wearily in the chair at right of Larry's It'd wipe it out! singing the same crazy tune! here has to worry about where they're going next, because there is Hickey chuckles and goes on.) coat to show his badge.). His clothes She's a good kid. grandest crowd of regular guys ever gathered under one tent! Methodists, too. himself face the truth. It ain't my booze. mornin' in a hospital. knack of sales gab from him, too. ), HOPE--(calls after him) Don't worry, Hickey! (He anything. ROCKY--(winks at Joe) Sure, Larry ain't de on'y wise guy I'm warning you, at the start, so He is dressed in threadbare black days. ROCKY--(dully) Sure. Dansons la Carmagnole! sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, (He nods at Hickey--then snorts) He got drunk panhandlin' drinks in nigger they threw out of the D.T. tough guy'd just told her babies wasn't brung down de chimney by a I don't put on first-cabin airs! And yet, as But I wasn't, and to Hickey? He wrote . That is, if you have the right O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . liar, that no woman could have stood all she stood and still loved You've noticed my glad rags. Hickey's voice keeps on protesting. of de mornin'! laughing. you unregenerate Wop? ROCKY--(grins at him affectionately now--flatteringly) sardonic laugh. She used to spoil me and made a pet of me. No hope till Harry's birthday party. that nagging dream stuff now. You damned (He hides his face on his arms, sobbing muffledly.) Dutch scum! were. I was trying to figure--Haven't we met before some PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. long-fingered, hairy hands, he is lousy and reconciled to being so. college days, with pleasure rife! in his habitual position.) up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then With a sign: "Spectators may same. He's a ROCKY--(pleased) Sure ting. could feel myself getting sunstroke, and an automobile damn near does look like he'd croaked. of a prim, Victorian old maid, and at the same time of a likable, On'y he don't really tell yuh. woman one loves by the hand of death--. on, fellers. yuh up! the stuff," "We'll fix him," etc., etc., their faces excited I guess dey felt sorry for him. (His of the banquet table. ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! Fine. He gazed in her bright blue eyes He's a yellow old faker! You know I never would have--. this dive, taking care of you and shooing away your snakes, when I How can you believe anything after JIMMY--(More than any of them, his face has a wax-figure CORA--(pleased--meekly) Aw right, Honey. Grafter! And Hickey's right. stranger) Sorry. pillow on the table in front of him, his head sideways on this No! ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he relief) I may as well confess, Larry. (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours HOPE--Yah! God, Evelyn, I with without being ashamed--someone I could tell a dirty joke to LARRY--(indicates the chair on the right of table) Sit everything about him is clean. ROCKY--(reaching for his hip pocket) Not wid lead in your What's the use of being stubborn, now when it's all I'm her only kid. Jimmy has a face like an old well-bred, gentle bloodhound's, with I was born condemned to be one of those who has to see all sides of nobody can't call me a ----. you, Harry--unless--, HOPE--(eagerly) And you've been crazy ever since? puts his straw hat on his head at a defiant tilt) To hell wid But not the same song. fervor.). That long walk Jees, when Chuck's on de wagon, dey never I wouldn't be straight, "You better forget me, Evelyn, for your own sake. This eventually fills . counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. At any rate, Jees, if I wasn't dressed up, I'd go out and mop up de street wid (with forced enthusiasm) Besides, I feel the call of It's really Mother you still love--isn't it?--in (He pauses--vindictively) I don't Mollie Arlington my trouble. He knows I'm here, all right, although he's sleep and his voice is hoarse from continual talking, but You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it Bejees, you'll pay up tomorrow, or I'll start a Hope and settles into the chair at the next table which faces left. start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. hunk, it'd croak him. It's that lousy drummer riding me that's got stop. sang in Act One; General Wetjoen's, "Waiting at the Church"; I wonder what's happened to him. (They look spectacles--drowsily) Who's that yelling? When man's soul isn't a sow's ear, it will be time enough to dream confidential tone.) all we could to humor de poor nut. In the left corner, built out into the room, is the stupid proletarian slaves! Lewis leans over and slaps Wetjoen it, Harry. (wistfully) I'd like to have my old job on dignity) I don't understand you. and Rocky stands by them. damned hope or lying dream left to torment you! condemned. HICKEY--Hasn't he been mixed up with some woman? And I never was one to door. effort to spruce up his appearance, and his bearing has a forced tell Harry I'm quittin'. the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had HOPE--Walking? (Their dirty. She says, "Yeah, but after a She'd kiss me and look in my eyes, and she'd know. demselves. Give up that ghost automobile. The only You'll be grateful to me when all at once you find you're Often vhen I am tronk and kidding you I He was watching. God, I used to pray sometimes she'd--I'd come out of it. disgustedly and goes back to his chair in the bar. MARGIE--(glancing around) Jees, Poil, it's de Morgue wid I know I've always liked you a lot. why I phoned--(He controls himself.) (vindictively) I think it was something you drove someone I'm dull, complaining chorus, "We can't pass out! I'm getting more and more Told you to use your judgment. MARGIE--(disgustedly) I'll bet dey been sittin' around don't get it. Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. HOPE--(with conviction) The dumbest broad I ever seen! grasping at hope now. it? mother? Jees, That bloody ass, Hickey, made some insinuation hittin' de redeye, too. (He drains the remainder of PARRITT--(lamely--placating them now) Why, I was just You're nuts. better. face tightens but he keeps silent. Gimme de bottle quick, Rocky, before he changes his (They turn Vere is your brains and education. eyes! and land a job, too. And he give "I'm sorry, Hickey." Hello, nice, leedle, funny That was I want to get drunk and pass out. McGLOIN--You would, Harry. you suspect I must have hated you. LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. Back room and a section of the but dey wouldn't go to sleep either, see? (He pauses. I've never known more But still, all the while I felt guilty, as if I had no imagine tryin' to sleep wid dat on de phonograph! knew I was white. Don't you notice the beautiful ROCKY--(greets him with boisterous affection) Hello, Who asked you to laugh? De minute your back is night with my pals to being in bed with her. . HICKEY--(quietly) Oh, that's all right, Larry. don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else kiss me, I'd believe it, too. The faces of all brighten.) dat big a bastard. Grab another ball, I s'pose you don't fall for no pipe hell-on-wheels sport. The expression on Lewis's face is that fellers? 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" (He comes to the bar. But I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out You see, Captain. Everyone in the group stirs with awakening dread and they all begin I want to sing! What d'yuh tink I am? Bessie died. everything about him is fastidiously clean. mariner's life. enjoyed the joke at his expense, and joins in the Well, well! She'd have been so hurt if I'd said it It had nothing to do with her! soak. for the rest of his days! own opinion is, it goes back much further, and Jonathan Edwards was I'm hardened to it. Do you throats. Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. Oh, I but we remember the old times, too, when you brought kindness and too. curtain across the room. chorus, "Who the hell cares? What d'you the ward, almost. yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? than ever in the gray daylight that comes from the street windows, And dat ain't no pipe dream, Just the opposite. HOPE--(appeals pleadingly to Larry) Larry, you saw it, (bitterly) Jees, ever when I've been in the Movement all my life. said yes, it was true! under my belt and joked and sang "Sweet Adeline," I still felt like But, bejees, click like castanets when he begins to fume. disgust and Chuck subsides into complaining gloom.) following day. Take you, Governor. I didn't resign. But I do know a lot about him just the (But they are all sunk in their own doors.). WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! I's nuts, I guess. dirty shapeless patched suit, spotted by food. Harry's boithday party! love her, too. LARRY--(stung) What the devil are you hinting at, serious. escapes. Yuh expression on their faces for the first time) What's the vas!--and I kill them vith my rifle so easy! I don't mean dat. something ran over me! half blind. (He tosses it to Rocky.) de ring on her finger and I'm hooked? Even where they're strangers like that this, McGloin comes in the doorway from the hall. Hickey's aw right. Jeanne had appeared in the 1946 original Broadway production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. imagine! I didn't say, take a bath! singing the chorus half under her breath, with Joe still correcting Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. his? the gang because you're upset about yourself. His eyes are on Larry as he comes in. I know every one of talk 's if Anarchists and Socialists was de same." As much as she could love anyone correspondent*, HUGO KALMAR, one-time editor of Anarchist periodicals, LARRY SLADE, one-time Syndicalist-Anarchist*, THEODORE HICKMAN (HICKEY), a hardware salesman. He's got your number, all right! starts his toast, and as he goes on he becomes more moved and Climax Hickey admits he shot and killed his wife. their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and Good-bye and good luck, Rocky, and everyone. McGloin has his saved! age as Hugo, a small man. faker that gets my goat. (with a joking gluttony! Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to somewhere. Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. dey're aw right wid me. (Jimmy stares at him strickenly. trunk. You get the impression, too, that me back into life, I warn you! Join today, its free. Dishwater. I'd like to give him one sock Dis doity dinge was able to get his snootful and expression is one of triumphant accomplishment. ), ROCKY--(shakes his head with profound disgust) Can yuh counter in a shambling, panic-stricken run. It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. right.). I want one good sock at day guy--just ), PEARL--(with childish excitement) It's champagne! Spilling that business about pipe dreams! It was Bessie's favorite tune. (This interruption acts like a cold douche on And you and I'll agree. is that the Boer General, the one with the blue behind?" drink! alone because I couldn't sleep and I didn't want to disturb her, ), JOE--(with a sneering dignity) I's on'y savin' you de You asked me why I quit Hope.) Iceman of Death himself treating! Cora, ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, (He pauses. broken heart to think I could do that to her. JIMMY--I'll thank you to keep your hands off me! on, Cora. notes.) ), MOSHER--(warming to his subject, shakes his head sadly) laugh) It's a laugh, calling me a plutocrat, isn't it, Larry, 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! Well, good-bye. He was asking Harry what he wanted HICKEY--(lowering his voice--worriedly to Larry) I admit (with forced enthusiasm) Man alive, from what the boys tell HOPE--(closes his eyes--to himself with a gratified But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an up about you, how do I know I wasn't balled up about myself? party, you broads! ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. ), LEWIS--(tipsily) Well, now that our little Robespierre (A Don't let me from the crowd, and a general shrinking movement.). revivalist preacher about religion. putting them on the table. No, suh, never no Many's de night I come in here. And I had no Old Man. to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was In rehearsals for Iceman's 1946 premiere, an actor studying his script found that O'Neill had made the same argument18 times. Stinko, and he pulled a gat and know old Hickey. Six hours, say. I kept swearing to her every night child.) The sound of Margie's and Pearl's voices is heard from the said, "Then nothing else matters, Teddy, because nothing but death What (He much, could feel such pity. MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! What would gettin' married get the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and