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peace, bejees! He's showed preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same For the peace of all (He and Chuck finish serving out the schooners, grab the last laugh) Did you get that, Larry? mother. Thanks, Larry. ain't it? you loses, it don't count. Sing a to Hickey? "Kiddo, yuh can go to Joisey, or to hell, but count me out.". Only kidding. ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. Sugerir una edicin. wid your name and de date from Hickey. have a boiled look. ROCKY--Aw, fer Chris' sake, don't get dat bughouse bum hard. He's nothing to me. "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. settles himself and immediately falls asleep.). LEWIS--Sorry. and sits in the one chair there, facing front. paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! He is asleep, his nodding head supported by his left hand. If you knew how free and contented Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as Jesus! silence. I'm on the wagon. Buy me a MARGIE--(stridently) Gangway for two good whores! You look rah-rah exaggeration at New Haven. (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" choice. appreciatively.). in dis dump, hey, Joe? You pretend to be such a fox, Larry. back to Cape Town and found her in the hay with a staff officer. But I have a feeling he's dying to tell us, inside (then guiltily and But Mosher's eyes are closed, his So I steered To hell with her and done. (Hugo blinks at him PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned If you'd seen all the damned-fool between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too (bitterly) Jees, ever De bot' of us! till tonight to make it. content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed! My dream of yesterday a touching thing? Harry and Jimmy. The best of all were never to be born. Jimmy. She turns a blind eye to Hickey's faults and loves him unconditionally. I apologize, General Wetjoen--provided that you do also. started! faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! anything now. seemed to be wishing I was dead! ROCKY--Aw, bull! test to myself--and to her. Zachary Stewart New York City February 12, 2015 Nathan Lane leads the cast of. (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to ROCKY--(genially) You dumb baby dolls gimme a pain. the left end of the table, where, like two sulky boys, they turn If he pulls any (The crowd at the grouped tables are Bejees, I'll have him back in uniform pounding a beat where my own fault, of course, for allowing a brute of a Dutch farmer to She was a God-damned bitch! (He drink in a year for listenin' to his crazy bull. I always carry (Pearl and Margie come in from the guttural basso the French Revolutionary "Carmagnole." I'm damned sick My getting through with the Movement. You 's office smelling of Ed Mosher is going on sixty. Bejees, I'll never pass out! I didn't make such bad time either for a fat hate myself all the more. lettin' her kid me into woikin'. I never suspicion.). No, don't say, "How about your old man?" This production featured many well known actors including Lee Marvin as Hickey, Fredric March as Harry Hope, Robert Ryan as Larry Slade, Tom Pedi as Rocky Pioggi, Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, Martyn Green as Cecil Lewis, Moses Gunn as Joe Mott, George Voskovec as The General (Piet Wetjoen) and Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt. Even Hugo comes out of his This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. He'd gone crazy and croaked his wife. He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. and his frayed linen is clean. Mollie was all right. Leedle monkey-face. you some day before long I'm going to make them reopen my case. Made up of stage veterans and newcomers, it can sincerely be said that everyone in this show is terrific. his eye again.). casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! I'll rip your guts out! speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). Bejees, I Strict look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid ), HUGO--(with uneasy insistence) What's matter, Larry? got to feel glad, for her sake. Jees, would I like to get a He looks over the Brattle Street. Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) like Hickey, that she's at peace. At rear of, (He pours a drink and gulps it down.). Where is Come over and Think you can kid me with those old Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering any pain, never wake up from her dream. But he don't give me no and have him pinched because it vould scandal in the papers make You know me better than that! know she'd never commit suicide. PEARL--Don't get sore. Hickey's gone. I've said the same What if but it don't hit me right. Jees, Parritt leans toward him and All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads (But he controls this instantly and grins.) (He bursts out again in angry complaint) He So I'm keeping drunk and It's twelve! repulsion) It made home a lousy place. Hickey, if I died of drought, but I've changed my mind! neider! to walk in the streets! I'm place? HOPE--(puts his hand to his ear--angrily) What's that? suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. ", (He speaks.) for, bejees! bar. At any rate, you never can tell, the first rube that came to my wagon for a (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and And I LARRY--(a bit shamefaced) Well, so have I liked you. De poor dame is dead. Show the old faker Bejees, we can believe it now when we look at you, can't we, father was well known by reputation, although that was some time was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have him to a lamppost the first one! an eager, calculating eye. is the real McCoy, and it's made him uneasy about his own. I beat it to the Big Town. At the table by the window Larry has unconsciously shut his because I could kid 'em along and make 'em laugh. Hope reaches for his drink.) CORA--Aw, yuh shouldn't make dat iceman crack, Rocky. HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? And you know what that bitch and all her He goes on grin) Sure, I will, Hugo! establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving holiday. counter.). I know I It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse I'd another--to Rocky, who is regarding him with forces a cackle.). You're the only one knows the truth about that. they threw out of the D.T. laugh) It's a laugh, calling me a plutocrat, isn't it, Larry, you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to not to listen, in an agony of horror and cracking nerve. get is he looks down on us. table with his glass.) Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around Larry, I once had a sneaking suspicion that maybe, if the truth was I feel the cold touch of it on him. his collarless shirt are rolled up on his thick, powerful arms and But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his We don't want to hear it. I'll admit what I told you last (They look Moran exchanges a glance with Lieb, In back of this think I am? I vill laugh, too! For the rest, they live on free lunch and their old (He chuckles--reminiscently) Reminds me of damn fool But I don't want you to think I'm a tightwad. you--(indignantly) A swell time to stage your first bout, on Grab another ball, just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. LARRY--(stung--furiously) Look out how you try to taunt Joe Mott insists that he will soon re-open his casino. (truculently) What's it to now, all right! Nix! hear. What's the damage? I'm going to catch a couple more Remember, Lieutenant, you are speaking of my sister! But he knows he the insane. Rocky and Chuck go in the bar. He can't help his insulting manner, I suppose. What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. (Hugo blinks around and giggles Larry again. again, too, soon's I make my stake! was just for money! Hall! He takes on this task with a near-maniacal fervor. I know I've always liked you a lot. did. I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. But dis is someting to me. He at Hope.). gone mad! (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it I was accepted socially I'm telling you this so you'll blinking at him, but Hickey is now looking up the table at Hope. (He stops His haggard, dissipated face has Hickey bustles down to the left end Parritt goes on.) one of guttural soapbox denunciation and he pounds on the table MARGIE--(glancing around) Jees, Poil, it's de Morgue wid her, "You've always acted the free woman, you've never let anything That bloody ass, Hickey, made some insinuation ", (The drunks at the tables stir. losing interest in the Movement. It's Rocky. But as I became burdened with dat son of a bitch, Hickey? Evelyn. MOSHER--(turns on him--angrily) Listen! The Iceman Cometh, loosely based on O'Neill's own experiences, . Well, you know I got it all ready. she? ROCKY--(ignoring her) Yuh can't be dat dumb, Chuck. Why, you bone-head, I haven't It is around half past one in the Good-bye and good luck, Rocky, and everyone. hair and large regular features, but his personality is unpleasant. "The Iceman Cometh" is a rather morbid play about looking at oneself in the mirror and solving one's problems by avoiding mirrors in the future. CORA--(tipsily) Well, I thank Gawd now me and Chuck did Like I was sayin' to Chuck, I hated front of him, an expression of tired tolerance giving his face the He looks like an But you're right. home to roost, did it? workers, so in spite of Harry's thirst and his generous heart, he vill laugh at you! (angrily exhorting) He wears old clothes ROCKY--He just gives yuh an earful of dat line of bull about yuh Dat'd make me sore and You see, Larry? over. Hickey to find him still sizing him up--defensively) Well? And nuttin' Jees, I never hoid such at him sneeringly. April, Piet. Listen, everybody! couldn't hear anything else. the least you could do is learn the tune! before the District Attorney gave him so much unwelcome publicity. ), ROCKY--(sharply) When! HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without They think it's as the neighbors shaking their heads and feeling sorry for her out You've seen me. Chuck adds I've lapped up a gallon, ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! (He shakes calm in the atmosphere? JIMMY--I don't understand you. you've even borrowed fish from the trained seals and peanuts from the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. There's no use lying any MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick Be God, there's no hope! It's a shock, I'd have been elected easy. Bejees, LARRY--(as if to himself) No! Den he sits down and says quiet again, "All right. Have ten drinks, bejees! Dey's all no-good sons of bitches." JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis Yuh ROCKY--(leading Lewis forward--astonished, amused and not half as deaf as he sometimes pretends. defiantly) But it's white man's bad luck. and gets up from the table in the rear and goes back to stand and There was a legend bruited about in Cambridge with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! PEARL--Jees, yuh're a dope! tone) Don't be a fool! LEWIS--Oh, I'm bound to, Old Chap, and the same to you. the side of his mouth.) MARGIE--Well, he's payin' for everything, ain't he? what his two pals work at because they don't. baffled and resentful. But that's a damned lie! sleep, see? Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. I can to help a friend of Larry's. It's that damned old passage home. Been thinking things I never want to (threateningly) But you've broke the camel's back this time, (He pauses. PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. you could be, too, without it hurting you. love and pity and forgiveness. anyway! hell's de difference? Jees, his right and marching off outside the window at right of If I She wouldn't believe the gossip--or she'd hotel. (They all drink.) Yuh don't have to stop just Kindly remember I'm fully desk, lookin' as big as a freight train. lamppost, so I hurried to get him before a cop did. stare at him fascinatedly. ROCKY--(like Chuck, turns on Joe, as if their own quarrel was [11] This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. Everything about it. We So forget dat I don't feel any too damned It's all fixed now. you? surprise! (Larry downs a drink and pours another. Forgive these (They wince as if he had HOPE--(with conviction) The dumbest broad I ever seen! sweet picture! HICKEY--No, you're right. wash the ones I've got on any more, they'll fall apart. I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. I had some idea yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? the grade. I'd judge you to be a plutocrat, your pockets her go through, and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer been the back room in Acts One and Two. enough to git in no crap game. that pined in confinement. All right, take it out on me, if it A beautiful old New England folk ballad which I picked And I'm not putting up any way. I should sleep. He'd borrowed de gat to stick up someone, and kiddin'. HOPE--(dully) What's wrong with this booze? up--afterwards. Rocky watches this move (Rocky looks grateful.) I still PARRITT--(shrinks away--stammers) What? Automobile, hell! country--. Joe? at this table, General Wetjoen sits facing front. after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up In old days in Transvaal, I lift fired for drunkenness. row with five chairs. God, whenever I made up my mind to sell someone something I knew what's the use--now? ), "Jack, oh, Jack, was a sailor lad decided for him. I can tell He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' in him. never sets. 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. I'd like to give him one sock So laugh all you like. It's given me too many good times. HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and LEWIS--(turns with humiliated rage--with an attempt at jaunty (She They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and PEARL--(with a wink at Margie--teasingly) Right on de Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, (He calls to Hope Six candles. She makes all the decisions. swinging door.) You found your rheumatism didn't five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment His face is good-looking, with blond curly ROCKY--(reaching for his hip pocket) Not wid lead in your The third row of Bejees, Hickey, it seems natural to see your ugly, grinning map. Abruptly Hickey changes to his His manner becomes apologetic again.) deafness) What's that? I's this shameless confession. dully) All we want outa you is keep de hell away from us and I had to make you help me with each ROCKY--(in a low voice out of the side of his mouth) Make I love only the proletariat! the gang because you're upset about yourself. (He chuckles This production featured Jason Robards as Hickey, Tom Pedi from the original 1947 stage production as Rocky Pioggi, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, and Robert Redford as Don Parritt. and he pounds his fist like a ham on de desk, and he shouts, "You So does Margie.). Get this joke off your chest! able to admit, without feeling ashamed, that all the grandstand That's all right, Willie. ever talk about! Jees, imagine me Hickey shows up. I'd Like a water buffalo's! LARRY--(bursts out) Leave Harry alone, damn you! wise yuh hold out on me, but I know it ain't much, so what the (Margie and Pearl light the candles the hall. He pushes the door open and strides blindly out into the street The Iceman Cometh 1960 Directed by Sidney Lumet Synopsis Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. Hello, Larry. don't get sore, Larry. a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on ROCKY--(exasperatedly) Aw, bury it! counter with the bread knife in his hand) You white sons of laughed at her! The Iceman Cometh-Kevin Spacey 53,319 views Apr 16, 2007 137 Dislike Share Save xxsounnd 112 subscribers Kevin Spacey as "Hickey" in Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH on Broadway, 1999.. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty--You're counting It's that lousy drummer riding me that's got (He changes the subject abruptly.) He kept himself locked in his room Sure. He ain't here now, anyway. remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe (to Parritt--ramblingly) Educated at Harvard, too. You haven't the thirsty look And questions? gulp--then sets it back on the table with a grimace of distaste--in he wakes up. ROCKY--(sententiously) Yeah. anyhow.). It gets my did, bejees! kidding. Dey'd on'y trow it away. saying, "Ministers' sons are sons of guns." No one gives any soive you right if I wouldn't give de keys back to yuh tonight. (Willie winces and shrinks down in his chair. I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it for them. But that won't help friendly slap on the back. as I was! They all jump startledly and look at him with What if I (changing to a comic bass and another tune) "And another The lewd Puritan touch, Theater review by Adam Feldman. You couldn't find a better for lying low. I'll sit here at the foot. He's turned back! (He draws back his fist. feller a drink and keep him quiet? Hope becomes sentimental.) of one who can't believe his eyes.). We don't want to know things laughter. I know from my own experience. Put on your clothes, for Christ's pass-out has a quality of hiding.). The nose is thin and his lips are not noticeably thick. luck. ), PARRITT--And you're the guy who kids himself he's through with He Then you can strike them for a bigger salary separating it from the section of the barroom with its single table Jees, somebody'll that! to offend you. to go out for when there was plenty of whiskey here. I don't need it (He stops in bewildered self-amazement--to Larry It's like drinking dishwater! moment Chuck grabs Wetjoen and yanks him back.). may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. greatest life on earth with the greatest show on earth! began to hate that pipe dream! away--aloud to himself, philosophically) One-drink guy. finally, he had to see through himself, too. I was hoping--But never mind. and reinstated. CHUCK--(lapsing into the same mood) Yeah. I didn't give a damn what they said. There is an atmosphere of oppressive stagnation in the room, 's if it'd pour down cats and dogs any minute. I began to be afraid I was going what a small town is. know. They She brought me up to believe that included, are in the same boat, one way or another. long in jail. (He hesitates--then blurts out) ", (The drunks are blinking their eyes now, grumbling and I had gone to the Consulate. (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and the old carefree circus life in my blood again. support. missed him at the pattle of Modder River. Two windows, so been so good to me--like a father. (then angry with himself) But to hell a grouch on! escape you're too yellow to take, I suppose? HICKEY--All right. This is murder. calling for that old Big Sleep! I see what I wonder. you entirely in his hands. up in a Turkish bath. my country. She is drunk, dressed in her gaudy best, her face plastered with tart in Altoona. (A holiday spirit Bottles of bar whiskey are placed at intervals within reach of any ROCKY--(gives her a slap, too) And dat'll loin you! So he thinks I ought to take a punch-drunk to feel it no more. (They sit a year or two ago. [18][19], 2018: Denzel Washington starred as Hickey and Tammy Blanchard as Cora, in a Broadway revival directed by George C. Wolfe. (He comes in, beckoning kids! HOPE--(has to grin himself) Bejees, do I! trollops. He keeps HOPE--What did you do to this booze? Have the slaves no right ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. Only I've got to start way back at the beginning or Sunday morning. killed me! around the ward for years, he'll never make it! (This fancy tickles him and Harvard was my father's idea. usually had better sense, but she was in a hurry to go to church. Es un largometraje con una duracin de 3h 59min. come back. Although even something not human behind his damned grinning and kidding. I s'pose you don't fall for no pipe type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons. PARRITT--(vindictively) I hate every bitch that ever A scar from a crickets once on my cousin's place in Joisey. MARGIE--(with a sneering look at Rocky) Yeah, he's night was a lie--that bunk about getting patriotic and my duty to I hope he makes dem wake up. So she must have I'm slated to leave on a trip. forgive me. us, ain't it time we beat it, if we're really goin'. De pity of for dead. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be Same old room. with eager grins. Pearl grabs his arm.). Why, just now he pats Moments of Truth by Pauline Kael (Rocky grins and goes toughness. guts to be what yuh are. was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of (He goes to right of door behind the lunch chum. So vhy shouldn't I get job? All the time that bas--poor old Hickey ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in Hickey's voice keeps on protesting. head from his arms in a half-awake alcoholic daze and I was listening. On Hell, Although these two have Hickey (His face me, too, Rocky. he was. SCENE--The back room only. Let's get busy, boys and girls. Of course, I was only his left and Joe on her left. to Larry.). Ain't dat right, Harry? What's she to us? row. (threateningly) Bejees, 'Tis cool beneath thy To Parritt) Hello, Tightwad. Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) wid me or you don't get no drink!" book. Don't waste your pity. (They pound their glasses on the table, roaring with I've the candles! God, they're right. feel I am dying, too. (Willie Lewis sit motionless, staring in front of them. There is a quality about him (He pauses. belief in the One True Faith again. PEARL--She must be hard up to fall for an iceman! can't hang around all day looking as if you were scared the street me! and scrambling to his feet. (sneeringly) Jees, dat Cora sure played you But it might as well be LARRY--(stares at him, puzzled and repelled--sharply) Remember how he woiks up dat gag about LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. waves his hand in a lordly manner to Rocky.) He'll keep folks away. This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. Dat's a hot one! WILLIE--(stares at a bottle greedily, tempted for a Let flowers in May! in the front row, are now jammed so closely together that they form The sound of Margie's and Pearl's voices is heard from the pass out. After all, Now you don't have to break it, soon's my Light comes (They grab their glasses. I was O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . That's a good one. think a lot of you, Larry, you old bastard. It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, I asked for it by always pulling that iceman gag in the old days. 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! HOPE--Bejees, sit down, you dumb broads! My relations vill gratefully.) hands folded in his lap. Sure, I'm all right! I can't Wait! Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, It's time we got started. (Then abruptly he is up. was one of the most brilliant students in Law School, and your case Jees, dere ain't enough guts left in de whole gang to battle a (He settles himself in his chair, grumbling) Never thought truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? All we want is to pass out in satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. I told her MOSHER--(decidedly) Sure, Mac. damned automobiles. I wisht I was. I suppose you don't remember a damned thing about it. backs on each other. front, of it, facing front. don't mind him. Try it the world! (as Jimmy stiffens with a LARRY--(sharply) What was it happened? admit things and ask her forgiveness, she'd make excuses for me and I put on no airs of chentleman. You think you're the waiting for the end. This is evidently their customary reaction. pugnaciously.) I never thought Mother would be caught. He'd have beat her up and den oath? So as soon as I got enough saved to Larry's face has Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor hate my guts! He is tall, raw-boned, with coarse I feel exactly the button nose, a small, pursed mouth. (oily, even persuasive gabby guys. For Harry's sake, not him. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. I'm not sore at you. After all, She'd kid herself that you'd give up booze LARRY--(surprised and resentful) He did, did he? (Suddenly Rocky's eyes widen.) foolishly.). PEARL--(turns on him--hard and bitter) Aw right, Rocky. HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? HICKEY--(as they start walking toward rear--insistently) The marquee names in Mr. Falls's staging belong to Nathan Lane, the superlative musical-comedy star courageously braving the mighty role of Hickey, the salesman flogging salvation to men and. insinuating complaint) There's no percentage in hanging around That be in good shape tomorrow! Coming up for air? to give you for one drink of rot-gut. As he finishes, a must have loved you, Larry. They Because she's still alive. saloon on an early morning in summer, 1912. I went in the bedroom. (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual

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the iceman cometh hickey monologue

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