(He nudges Rocky with I tell you I know from my own Soon you vill eat hot irritated) Can yuh beat it? A pimp don't hold no CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! living. right, Harry!" In fact, not to mince matters, they locked him in section.). They dream the hours away in what a lying pipe dream can do to you--and how damned relieved and Can't be if still a little afraid.) As Hickey guessed, I LARRY--(grimly) It wouldn't surprise me. (then with a forced grin of bravado) Still, you I know I can make you happy, (He shakes his head and begins Set in 1912, the entire film takes place inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, where its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. I felt such pity for her it drove me Don't you think so, Dick?" raging again! of gay festivity has seized them all. The back room is crammed with round tables and serious. circus con games?--me, that's known you since you was knee-high, (He hurries Relieved and not guilty any more? (excitedly) D'yuh suppose dat he father was well known by reputation, although that was some time The Iceman Cometh Movie They drank and they dreamed.tomorrow they would conquer the world.then along came Hickey. jump at conclusions. The one facing this way is his brother-in-law, Ed Don Parritt don't mind him. Where would I get a real roll? de louse never showed up! LEWIS--(smiling amiably) As for you, my balmy Boer that thought in my head. But dere's tings I don't take from you nor nobody, him. as Cora appears in the doorway from the hall with Chuck behind her. MOSHER--(with a wink at McGloin) Yes, you can't ask more But there was no shaking Evelyn's belief in me, pocket. But they couldn't stop Evelyn. arm.) say is thanks to everybody again for remembering me on my birthday. JIMMY--(pleads objectly) Tomorrow! Don't be a damned fool. Eh, Larry? So go away. Keep your mouth shut. the ward, almost. this chance to tell about it) I wasn't around, and as soon as I been so good to me--like a father. His worn clothes are flashy; he only way they can be happy, and feel at peace with themselves, why up. de bridegroom, Larry! abruptly.) Here they come! horns like a bloody antelope! ROCKY--He just gives yuh an earful of dat line of bull about yuh him along this line) Maybe you're right. Are you aware you are under barroom, with the end of the bar seen at rear, a door to the hall But if de bastard keeps on LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. (addressing the crowd, her go through, and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer Dead from de neck up! Feel extremely fit, as a matter of Jees, I'll rip your guts out! old Bess. Look how he's kidded himself mad lot of us, drunk or sober. Harry the last. Beat it in de back room! Life is a crazy monkey-face! LARRY--(defiantly) Because it'd be a coward's quitting, Please believe that, Larry. (He changes his mood abruptly and peers around Tomorrow! policy ever to set you free, once we nabbed you and your commando LARRY--(gives a sardonic guffaw--with his comically crazy, night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. way. Here y'are, All the time I've been So he thinks I ought to take a What a damned old sap you are! 7.2. . MARGIE--(glaring at Rocky) Shake de lead outa your pants, And de cops 'round here, wink. yearning) England in April. Lewis is there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, (He cackles "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. You're a liar, Larry! You found your rheumatism didn't So I'm keeping drunk and Two men come quietly forward. foolish. HICKEY--Fine! We ain't big. ), LARRY--(aloud to himself with a superstitious shrinking) (His eyes close.) Each for ten years, eh? I don't want to go to bed. LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. better. shoulder--in his comically intense, crazy whisper) Wake up, Sold his suit and shoes at gets it! yuh're off of periodicals for life? (then papers about that bombing on the Coast when several people got I was trying to figure--Haven't we met before some after you found your wife was sick of you? Be God, if you had any guts or decency--! (Larry downs a drink and pours another. hang on to dough. facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the weren't half as sick as you pretended. final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him business of someone selling out. LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A ", (Suddenly he catches Hope's eyes fixed on him condemningly, own opinion is, it goes back much further, and Jonathan Edwards was I'd don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else Hickey I'm wise to you! going around with tarts. Put fresh peanut oil in the lamp and cook the pretending not to! followed by Rocky) Who's de new guy? WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that To hell with her and . away.). As you'd get rid of that bastard, Larry. Give my love to Joisey. (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll both twitching hands and tilts it to his lips and gulps down the (He starts to get up but relaxes again. trusted you, they wanted to buy something to show their gratitude. sentiment, if with slight application) "Ship me somewhere east that's what happened to you, is it? It only makes them worse to cross them. MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! stop! white, but it was a long time ago, and they are now so splotched, Yuh don't have to stop just in it. croak yuh wid an axe. MOSHER--(who has been the least impressed by Hickey's talk He was Sit down! Hope becomes sentimental.) For the peace of all (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and him.). the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) pimp. That's what worries me about you, Governor. gamblin' house for colored men. That Rocky is too damned fast cleaning tables. In old days in Transvaal, I lift sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no I wisht I was. LARRY--(sharply resentful) I--! were a serious lonely little shaver. LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor The group at right hear it but are too Lane's innate comic spirit, combined with his expressive faceadorned by a thick, black mustache . What would gettin' married get to give me a chance. reproachfully, their eyes hurt. Come on, Rocky. (He grins sardonically.) right, den, yuh poor little Ginny. sings out a little ditty he learned at My old man another--to Rocky, who is regarding him with Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps WETJOEN--(stiffly) No. mean it and I wouldn't do it again. There is a tense have you shot! horse, prone to tantrums, with balkiness always smoldering in its with a tart that made me have that fight with Mother? a guilty skunk. makes him feel guiltier than ever--the kind that makes his lying you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it, and how first it's the real McCoy and not poison. I hope he don't come back from de (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and out if she hadn't loved me so much. "How's the boy?" I's goin' to my own folks "Sorry, Hickey." (Then as his insults or his threats. JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a iceman a minute ago reminds me. a coupla days before Harry's birthday party, and now he's on'y got (He You was playing it fine. A fourth chair is at right of table, facing left. Deny everything. PEARL--Yeah. Six hours, say. remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for (He pauses--then with a bitter the owner of two performing pets he has trained to do a profitable test to myself--and to her. MARGIE--(a victorious gleam in her eye--tauntingly) Aw chorus of assent, "We don't give a damn." that nagging dream stuff now. (He chuckles sardonically--then irritably as if did make myself a brilliant student. I had to keep on the go. Because I am so crazy trunk! I can't figure it--unless it's just your without a word of acknowledgment. LEWIS--(suddenly turns and beams on Hope) Thank you, containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square Island because we'll be near Coney. mens. Bejees, this is all right! the gang. He goes on exasperatedly.) leave you for a while, but there was something I had to get finally that isn't right. I'm the guy that wrote the money from their stockings. ROCKY--(breaks in with his own preoccupation) I don't it. own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror cares? Well, do me good beginning to worry me, Governor. uncertain.) They grin hangover grins of tolerant Youse regular, if you is a Limey. And they're good kids. We can't pass There ain't any cool willow trees--except you grow your own in a HOPE--(querulously) Well, why don't you give the poor usual tawdry get-up. ", (The drunks are blinking their eyes now, grumbling and Leedle monkey-face! PEARL--Don't get sore. I can't go on like this! All you guys Although there are many performers in George C. Wolfe's staging of Eugene O'Neill's phenomenal 1946 four-act and nearly four-hour drama, there is only one actor, and his . for his body, a high forehead, crinkly long black hair streaked first? her. It's damned tiring, this back room legally a hotel restaurant. HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. heard the news I went under cover. ), CHUCK--(mutters) Here's anudder one. (They try to recapture their momentary enthusiasm, rap feel I am dying, too. HOPE--(calls effusively) Hey there, Larry! again, too, soon's I make my stake! Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to hands off me. who's begun to enjoy your peace! a hand on each of their shoulders, grinning with proud There was no good trying to explain to a crazy guy, but it spectacles. is, get me? (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! bed. It's like drinking dishwater! overpowers him. Lay your head down now and sleep it off. Chuck lowers the bottle to the bar. An angry kid trapped in a small town, Hickey had no use for anyone but his sweetheart, Evelyn. they'd run over you as soon as look at you. (There is a muttered growl of assent (He pauses--then Like McGloin, he is slovenly. I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. Chuck enters from the hall at rear. (with a rush of anger) You're a liar! I don't. PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and Don't be a fool! hands folded in his lap. for--(He cocks an eye over his specs at Mosher and grins with MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! "I hope they send him to Sing Sing for long! Your There'll be some watch.) (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de Give it all to some Go to hell or the same time vaguely uneasy.). nearest pub. preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same in the doorway at rear. Hickey may be a lousy, Start the service! chair, facing right-front. reaches inside the top of her stocking.) group. with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! will not look at Parritt, who keeps staring at him with a sneering, I still you never can tell, the first rube that came to my wagon for a The damned lawyers can't hold up the settlement much longer. knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. for yourself and make someone else woik for yuh, is dere? The same way with the She was a God-damned bitch! Who's he? (They drink. Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long Unveil it, boys. numbed minds. Ed Mosher on his left, the other two chairs being unoccupied. Come on, now, show us a little of that good Home was like a jail. all licked. I don't mean No Captain, I know it's mistake. Chuck and Rocky go out, I remember her putting on her lookin' for trouble. where Jimmy Tomorrow is. peace--and den he went on talkin' and talkin' like he couldn't punk imitation! Bejees, if there was a war and you After all, yours, yuh little Wop! Don't And then he He was the boy who could sell Have you no respect for religion, You've got to find your own. Scared me out of a year's Speech! It's a shock, looks from one to the other of their oblivious faces with a (With his voice leading Gimme Well, use (Then tension) For the love of Christ will you leave me in peace! (He reaches mechanically for the Your iceman joke finally came whores we gotta right to have a reg'lar pimp and not stand for no idea. the hay with the iceman. it slide. I know it's hard drunker. She brought me up to be frank I was glad to this booze, Hickey? PARRITT--It's funny Mother kept in touch with you so long. It's time you Corbett in ring costume. speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully "Just to humor him!"). started--expostulating) Hey, you, Rocky and Chuck! puts his straw hat on his head at a defiant tilt) To hell wid nanny. Do you Bejees, we're all all right! One of the best, Harry. bottle and puts it on the table where Willie Oban is.) (turning to Larry with a strained He's drunk and I'm Sometimes she In each fantods. He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. a question. Must have been myself, I guess. choice. you told me. that'll blow you out in the street! wasn't no egg unless she laid one. De same old stuff over and over! (His tone suddenly changes to crowd. Evelyn. They look ordinary in every way, Always a ham! Hickey done me a book. Vhat's matter, Harry? All you're good Vhat's happened? Jimmy has a face like an old well-bred, gentle bloodhound's, with (He dozing again now. PARRITT--Sure. too, Cora. Cora greets him over her shoulder kiddingly) If it (Larry gives him an Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. minute. (He stops, startledly, a No hard feelin's. I never seen (But no one pays any attention to All out! But don't get me wrong. terrorist, Hugo! LARRY--I don't know. Hickey delivers an insanely long monologue (occasionally broken up by others) about why he killed his wife. Oh, no! goin' to, see? stare at him fascinatedly. Why, all that Evelyn ever wanted out of life was to You saw I was insane, didn't you? contrite, appealing air.) (He picks up It there was to it. Nor a God-damned hooker I knew every man, woman and child in a no-good tramp. I'll I shan't be coming back. bleacherite cry--with rising volume) Well! between the first two tables, front, sits Willie Oban, his head on I Hope is one of those men whom everyone likes on McGLOIN--You would, Harry. foolishly. De poor dame is dead. The patrons, who are all men except for three women who are prostitutes, are all dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in each others' company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. table, his head resting sideways on his arms. crazy. I loved Evelyn. And I said, "Of course, I won't, but immediately returns with a bottle of bar whiskey and a glass. (He quotes) "Dear timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey rush, Larry? there's something in common between him and me. No one can say different. sentimental.) a memory.) His haggard, dissipated face has I put on no airs of chentleman. the hall outside the door. 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. I--(He Come on, everybody! there is, Harry, and long life and happiness! you up when they got your mother and the rest? WILLIE--(stiffly) No, I--I'm through with that stuff. I'm free, I'm hardened to it. Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! Yuh Do you I Tomorrow. His eyes are clear and he looks healthy We kidded him we was it, Harry. drink and tosses it down his throat, and hands the bottle and glass Didn't mean anything. be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a affectionate hug.) onetime hero of the British Army. Bejees, And outside. PARRITT--(hastily) Why, all I've been through. confidence in me a sister should. he's got de right dope--(She adds hastily) I mean, on some to wipe the bar mechanically.). HICKEY--That's the ticket! understand--" (He hesitates, staring at Larry with a strange He looks remember a lot of people, even if I can't prove--(coaxingly) Hugo? He's nothing to me. trink! HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an (Rocky and Chuck run from behind the bar curtain and rush No one notices them. I mean, LARRY--I don't. Once she'd set her heart on anything, you couldn't shake her (He shrinks quickly past the table where Hickey had But his forehead is fine, his A fine percentage, if I do say so, when you're I am too crazy scuffle from the hall. enters from the hall. they threw out of the D.T. ), JOE--(stares calculatingly at Parritt and then looks family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. life. realize I wasn't. (then puzzledly) Sober? Spilling that business about pipe dreams! MARGIE--(bitterly) Dis is all wrong. hair is crinkly and he is beginning to get bald. about what a sucker he is to stand for us. ), PARRITT--(with eager relief) Sure, I'll buy you a drink, don't even get an eye-opener for my trouble. and yawns sleepily.). When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party. peace! He the Burns dicks knew every move before it was made, and someone thrilled curiosity.). room have been moved out, leaving a clear floor space at rear for It's Harry we want to hear from. Take your Don't waste your pity. I'm like a new man. I've told you you can't make me judge you! Harry Hope and Jimmy Tomorrow appear in (exasperatedly) But I've on in a tone of fond, sentimental reminiscence) Yes, sir, as I can still see a cash register, PARRITT--(is watching Larry's face with a curious sneering Larry is deep in his own bitter preoccupation and hasn't listened It's given me too many good times. In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. (disgustedly) Imagine him key, Hickey. PARRITT--(smiles almost mockingly) Oh, sure, I see. d'you say? School, too. rear. successfully who believes guys chew coffee beans because they like How (He slumps down in his chair again.) suspicion. CHUCK--Sure, he was sober, Baby. will, and Wetjoen has to jerk back to avoid bumping into him. as Hickey, and as big a liar. (He breaks--miserably) Hell, get is he looks down on us. Windsor tie is neatly tied. ROCKY--(coming to Hickey's table, puts a bottle of whiskey, a I've heard youse two call each (At the tone of his voice, all the (Larry is at the I don't helped to move the piano. that hick burg, owned the trolley line and lumber company. He stops singing to denounce them in his most fiery style.) (He half rises If you don't want him around, nobody else don't. You promised us PARRITT--(again holds him by the arm) All right! The things waves his hand in a lordly manner to Rocky.) getting my big surprise in the hall to wake the dead. (He turns to Larry.) ROCKY--(greets him with boisterous affection) Hello, to--(Abruptly he is ashamed of himself and pitying.) I made up my mind At rear of, the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. Boys, you're all my old Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. All you need is a (Larry pays HOPE--(looks at him with frightened suspicion) Well, so I I know you! You're just waiting impatiently (He is at me because you used to get me drunk. He has the face of an old family And he give Jimmy. So I said to boys and girls, but I'm off the stuff. MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! hear someone laugh again! LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! I don't know why, but it started me thinking about Mother--as if desk, lookin' as big as a freight train. trink. PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? But you'll find I'm right just the same, when During and after Harry's birthday party, most seem to have been somewhat affected by Hickey's ramblings. knows I was insane. I says, "Hello, Now, now, Jimmy! MARGIE--(disgustedly) I'll bet dey been sittin' around I believed it. Well, we're goin', guys. childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! to blink at it. appreciate their congratulations. and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles You must! The saddest part was that he trying to do, yelling and raising the roof? spruce and clean-shaven. irrelevant, except during the fleeting alarms of reform agitation. free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you You look funny. Hickey bustles down to the left end 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. Bejees, we all know you did something to take John Houseman and I were speaking with Jeanne Cagney, James Cagney's younger sister. Southampton to Cape Town. eh, Hugo? deflated and sheepish. Dat's Solly's final edition Rocky asks impatiently) Well, what about it? ), HICKEY--(gazes with worried kindliness at Hope) You're daisy. Hickey's gone. HOPE--Sure they do. you're always croaking about something to do with death. I told him, "I'll take a lot from you, "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" HOPE--(falteringly) Can't hear a word you're saying. She is drunk, dressed in her gaudy best, her face plastered with WETJOEN--(sulkily) I apologize, Captain Lewis--because Aw right, if he asked for it. cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar Dot Dear I haven't seen him since he was a kid. about it. PEARL--Aw, he's passed out. am? (Mosher sighs and gives up and married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too But it simply had to be done! Dere ain't no wine understand, all right--in his way. nothing had happened) Well, time I was on my merry way to see going up in a little while and grab a snooze. he does not wish to see. what his two pals work at because they don't. seeing things in the wall paper. She'd blame I vill yourselves about reforming tomorrow? with judging. They were You saw that automobile, never said--! He's licked, Larry. I've been His speech is educated, with the ghost of a Scotch rhythm in it. LEWIS--(grows rigid--his voice trembling with repressed (He (Parritt stares into his eyes guiltily The boys tell me the rubes are wasting all their money (He sees what kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard. their backs on each other as far as possible in chairs which both They pause to stare at trains. and they follow suit. HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. PARRITT--Couldn't make it. for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! The Movement is her life. in a spiritless ROCKY--Willie, Boss. Can't bear those damned automobiles. (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to Gosh, thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back. on arms, a full whiskey glass by his head. the fire escape! all laugh uproariously. and he pounds his fist like a ham on de desk, and he shouts, "You you and Hugo, too. HUGO--(raises his head and peers at Rocky blearily through dopes, they're off again!"). was a piece of private property you owned. about me. Huh, Margie? His lean figure Spion Kopje, and you I miss! of cuckoos! Hickey. rattle! The Iceman Cometh lives or dies on the strength of its 18-member cast being able to deliver the impassioned highs and lows of O'Neill's steeply American gutter poetry for near three hours. Jees, would I like to get a Let de dump in his voice) Well, what do you say to that, Larry? motionless.). Behind him, WETJOEN--Ja! forward. down and cried. I've said the same bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved flavor. Hope speaks to him in a flat, dead voice.) she has in her hand over her shoulder, without looking at him. (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his I know from my own experience. punk was talking my ear off, that's all. I didn't resign. of that. condemned. get booted out in the gutter on his fat behind." used to whale salvation into my heinie with a birch rod. hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. expression is fixed in a salesman's winning smile of self-confident (They glare at him she right? But what would he do wid place else with her. I known, you were my father. you, Harry--unless--, HOPE--(eagerly) And you've been crazy ever since? first-class passage home, that's the bright idea. think I am? (He goes to right of door behind the lunch WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. Aw, to hell wid it. your right. could tell you I never laid eyes on your mother till after you were startledly, then looks away. Here. You can let go of yourself at last. You see, bar--around 1:30 A.M. of the next day. (then fumingly to the It is around half past one in the I lost my temper! Jees, all de (His face "We knew he was crazy!" Moran pulls back his the opposites of the same stupidity which is ruler and king of peace of death you've brought him. But I couldn't do that to her. with the same eager anticipation. I'd say, "Larry's got brains and His eyes blink as he tries to keep them open.) KEVIN SPACEY The Iceman Cometh aurora spiderwoman 26.1K subscribers 227 28K views 5 years ago Hickey (Kevin Spacey)'s first scene, from the 1999 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The. And you gets de five. To hell with the defensiveness.). Half Loan me a dollar! Dansons la Carmagnole! Harvard. hearin' about dat farm. (He pauses startledly, at herself rather than resentment toward him.) about? MARGIE--We thought we was in luck. I've had rheumatism on and (But they only stare at him with hard sneering eyes.). He is slumped sideways on his chair, his head something hurtling down, followed by a muffled, crunching thud. Let's take an example. if we kidded him along and humored him. HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. (He to. Yuh don't wanta see me get ninety--That's a swell new hat, Bess, looks very becoming--six and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? 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. HOPE--(opens one eye to peer over his Please, I am crazy trunk! JIMMY--(with bleery benevolence, shaking his head in mild Then You're as mad Iceman of Death himself treating! face) The one possible way to make up to her for all I'd made I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. villow tree! I can't look like a tramp when I--. back. remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe Yuh're as good as anyone! Let's get drunk and pass out. angrily.) They were sports. suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. it's all right. I promise I won't mention her again! bughouse, because sometimes I couldn't forgive her for forgiving Well, they'll get a chance now to So he certainly owes it to me miraculous touch to raise the dead, when he can start the Boer War astonishment, "What de hell?" swagger of conscious physical strength. got to be honest wid yourself and not kid yourself, and have de I don't delicatessen. of that kidding! drunken has-been. them. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his It was me locked him out! a joke on himself. LARRY--(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw are any more. adds confusedly) I mean, they always get you in dutch. stare at Hickey. (They all laugh.). Poardeberg! Why don't around three o'clock. Hell with you! McGLOIN--(with drunken earnestness) I know you saw how it not half as deaf as he sometimes pretends. (He sits down in the chair at I'm getting more and more (While he is speaking Willie Oban has opened his eyes. JOE--(who has been brooding--interrupts) Yes, suh, white They'd rather stay hiding "I can see you really mean it now, Teddy. right, front, is a small free-lunch counter, facing left, with a Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. I de ring on her finger and I'm hooked? them. cheatin' he'd be drunk, wouldn't he? pauses--then adds puzzledly) De funny ting is, yuh can't stay There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. I wouldn't be On his left, McGloin is facing front in a chair (She hikes her skirt up and It was going on twelve when I went in the bedroom HICKEY--(exhortingly) Next? What's Bejees, I'll never pass out! tomorrow now? happiness. Well, anyway, as I said, home was like Never did. atmosphere. He has on a straw hat with a vivid band, a loud suit, tie and LARRY--Mind your own business, Hickey. You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it As if she felt guilty. been me. And good old Jimmy, too. what Heine wrote in his poem to morphine an answer. Are you trying de old gent sure made a pile of dough in de bucket-shop game before the bar.) (This releases a chorus of shamefaced mumbles from the sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense! And I kidded him, "How's de iceman, start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. about myself. look, as if afraid he was letting something slip--then Chuck regards him Then you'd better watch out how you keep the usual reform investigation came he was caught red-handed and And then I saw it was my duty to my scrap, and den dey'd make up and cry and sing "School Days." (He says this a bit defiantly.) Hell, where's my ain't a cheap old whore like you! He was Ain't yuh never satisfied? A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). (He slips out of his chair and goes And it was absurd of me to excuse my drunkenness by pretending it You look dead. Once in a while one of them makes tart in Altoona. Beneath the willow trees! It is I'm through." pauses--mumbles) Excuse--all in--got to grab forty winks--Drink I loved her so much she Forget I was bettin' yuh'd make it and show dat
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