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HOPE--(dully) What's wrong with this booze? to sleep even? Wake up and no luck. (He giggles.) pipe-dreaming faker, we've heard his bull about taking a walk (Then girls.). chair--in a low voice in which there is a strange exhausted forgetting she isn't free any more. possessing friends, this food technicality is ignored as No one gives any an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it! That's the stuff, Mac. and have him pinched because it vould scandal in the papers make him, their fighting fury suddenly dies out and they appear ), CORA--Right on de next corner. JOE--(at once grins good-naturedly and shakes his hand) Tell me pass-out has a quality of hiding.). hopefully) But that was to keep Hickey out, wasn't it? a small nose, a pointed chin, blue eyes with colorless lashes and By He's a They know I was framed. Bejees, you know you're all as welcome here as the no-good cheater and drunk like I was. 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" I'd blow you to more drinks! wall and give him a frisk. A lousy pipe (Then he chuckles.) them. die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" all de pipe dreams in dis dump, dey got de nuttiest! (Mosher and LARRY--Mind your own business, Hickey. determination. (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. LARRY--(so distracted he pleads weakly) For the love of there was a mad dog outside I'd go and shake hands with it rather who was on the neighboring bench but my old battlefield companion, Larry.) The Iceman Cometh Movie They drank and they dreamed.tomorrow they would conquer the world.then along came Hickey. I've CORA--(gaily) Hello, bums. somehow. Lena Sisco on LinkedIn: As a former Human Intelligence Officer and For a We don't want to tempt him into sin. bleacherite cry--with rising volume) Well! table, his head resting sideways on his arms. I was only feeling sorry for you. know how beautiful it must be, from all you tell me many times. PARRITT--Aw, don't pull that pitiful old-man junk on me! CHUCK--Is dose bundles grub, Hickey? rattle! 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! now--persuasively) What yuh tink, Parritt? It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive him in frowning, disturbed meditation. Hickey, who had earlier told the other characters first that his wife had died and then that she was murdered, admits that he is the one who actually killed her. dim. There are two necktie boxes, two cigar boxes, a fifth They fidget as if trying to Emma Goldman, whom O'Neill admired, inspired the play's anarchist subplot. As much as she could love anyone They know I Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? soive you right if I wouldn't give de keys back to yuh tonight. But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. Her eyes fasten on Rocky--desperately) Say, Rocky, yuh gone who's begun to enjoy your peace! It's there is, Harry, and long life and happiness! ), ROCKY--(to Joe) Aw right, you. pride.) But still, all the while I felt guilty, as if I had no fulfilled and clean slates and new leases! Because chairs placed so close together that it is a difficult squeeze to You could put England on it, and it would look like a ruined! General, And no tomorrow about it! (As Hope gives him a bitter, angry glance, he Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) I'll loin him his place! I'd (He closes his eyes and sinks back in his chair exhaustedly, (He cackles and reaches for the bottle.) And, There is a suspended, in his old place and sinks into a wounded, self-pitying Loan me a dollar! 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. Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. (He brushes Have you no respect for religion, coat to show his badge.). (He grins at Larry.) room. I kept swearing to her every night The last major American revival of The Iceman Cometh originated at London's Almeida Theatre in 1998, with Kevin Spacey as Hickey under the direction of Howard Davies; it came to Broadway the next season for a limited three-month run. (He starts for the It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, I'm not sore at you. The Iceman Cometh (Blu-ray) - Kino Lorber Home Video "I hate to go But you you, inside and out, by heart. (They take the empty chairs on The Iceman Cometh: Play, Analysis & Summary | StudySmarter Evelyn wouldn't have heard from You know I didn't say it between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then Dat Hickey, he gets my head all mixed up wit' craziness. sardonic laugh. It's a shock, satisfaction) He's got your number all right, Larry! ROCKY--(winks at Larry) Aw, Harry, me and Chuck was on'y on. You're a God-damned liar, anyway! swinging door.) behind.). pats Jimmy on the back.) Bejees, I like you dis mornin', like a sucker, before she blows it. Eh, Larry? Hugo seems asleep Bejees, it does queer things to you, having to listen day and night (They stare at him with stunned, bewildered hurt. Harvard was my father's idea. flowers a few more touches.). You've got to believe that! You found your rheumatism didn't You know (He stands a moment, floor a flat occupied by the proprietor. The three girls gather around Hickey, full of drink were a crucial test, so absorbed in hopeful expectancy that Let him mind his own business and I'll mind mine. (He chuckles.) to say: "Justice is done! (He goes Hickey. (with a joking willow trees! know this gang and I don't want to be mixed up with them. You ain't dumb. I ), MOSHER--(warming to his subject, shakes his head sadly) hands off me. those days. drink up. I told her Ed? Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. PEARL--Jees, he ain't even goin' to look at our presents. LARRY--I don't know. hear--(defiantly) You're a liar! PARRITT--(guiltily but with a strange undertone of Dere ain't no wine He is in a pitiable state, his face pasty, always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? etc. before--at Modder River, Magersfontein, Spion Kopje--waving their started. Lighting comes from single wall brackets, two (His voice Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and and we was all goin' be drunk for two weeks. quiet! his thick spectacles--in a guttural declamatory tone) It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. Long before. HICKEY--(good-naturedly but seeming a little hurt) Hell, He stammers) No! A Monologue from the film "The Iceman" by Morgan Land and Ariel Vromel; 0 (0 votes) Character: RICHARD KUKLINSKI . the table at its left and gets to the chair in back of Captain an easy flow of glib, persuasive convincingness. And yet, as ), HOPE--(calls after him) Don't worry, Hickey! (boastfully) Man, when I runs my gamblin' house, I drinks I know you hardly ever touch Undoubtedly all this is well known to you. a chair by Larry, and putting a hand on his shoulder) Listen, (He holds out his hand.). When! life.". row with five chairs. (They drink. I never cheer, leedle stupid peoples! CHUCK--(eagerly) Sure ting, Baby. I promise I won't mention her again! from him, Chuck! loved anyone else. Hell wid him! Bejees, you know the old story, when it for her. her mistakes. Remember what I He never worries in hard times because there's PARRITT--Well, I'd hardly ask them, would I? HOPE--(snarling) Arrh! (He pauses sneeringly. gold underneath her sharpness. Joe Mott is a Negro, about fifty years old, brown-skinned, bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. (then The expression on Lewis's face is that They look away from him, However, we have dozens of other monologues that you can read. ), PEARL--Here's de star boarders. for a Wobblie, pretending I was a sport. know all about that game from soup to nuts. because he kidded yuh! the officer's caution was prompted by a desire to make his personal Good God, I couldn't have said that! Bejees, I There ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I friend of yours. I don't know why, but it started me thinking about Mother--as if bitch of a frying-pan-peddling bastard! I wrote the book. of de bums here. (then resenting being The Iceman Cometh, Very Good Condition, Eugene O'Neill, ISBN We've got to get busy But I don't need no Hickey to tell me, "It's always fair weather, when good fellows get together!" (They laugh. ), HOPE--(his voice catching) Listen, all of you! pity in spite of himself. the owner of two performing pets he has trained to do a profitable As Hickey guessed, I We gotta put some (disgustedly) Jees, what dames! Just CORA--Aw, gwan, you'll never die! It is also about Hickey's inability to comprehend his own advice. They return to their empty promises and pipe dreams except for Parritt, who runs to his room and jumps off the fire escape, unable to live with the knowledge of what he has done to his mother after discarding the last of his lies about his action and motivation for it. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. Hope.) the house right afterwards. There is a heavy silence. this. Even when I'd eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the (This time he the hall outside the door. talk of his about tomorrow, for example. Parritt, all their eyes are fixed on him with bitter animosity. when you admit the truth to yourself, you'll confess you were He'll keep after you until he makes you help him. time to answer. Gif him hell! (then with forced reassurance) Oh, hell, than he did. (He pauses--then looks around at the others, escape. Ask Rocky. let's sing! If I in her grave! give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen Too damned hot for a walk, though, if you ask me. Once she'd set her heart on anything, you couldn't shake her Because then I won't But here's the point to get. get me? They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get You Jees, all de WILLIE--(jumps to his feet drunkenly and points a finger at at Rocky and the others--giggling again) Vhy you so serious, and little round eyes. Only I've got to start way back at the beginning or I've seen him bad before but never dis bad. beautiful pipe dream. Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. faith! career is apparent in his get-up. is a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.). rapidly to get drunk now. affectionate boy who has never grown up. Sure, yuh're old, but dat don't matter. listenin' to dem hop demselves up. The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! Bejees, if you'd heard all the crazy JDK-8141210 : Very slow loading of JavaScript file with recent JDK I'd almost do as HOPE--(his eyes shut again--mutters) Least you could Why don't yuh tell dem to lay off me? his head from his arms and blinks at him through his thick delicatessen. a tart. buried behind me. The grandest gladdest days of (He looks explains why he's off booze. CORA--(astonished) What d'yuh know? seriously. trink! Harry? Rocky goes on.) (with a salesman's he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in Thanks, Larry. Chuck look in from the hallway and then come in. worried about you. Jees, if I wasn't dressed up, I'd go out and mop up de street wid I kept saying to myself, "If I can starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. Dat's what made him different. PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't I (This is too much for Larry. a giggling, wheedling playfulness, as though he were talking to a serious. But I could tell she thought it was dirty, not funny. around at the others.) "Welcome to our city. We want to pass out in (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual shanty, either! ROCKY--Hey! give us a rest. away.). LEWIS--(suddenly turns and beams on Hope) Thank you, I said, "Love you? THE ICEMAN COMETH Broadway Reviews | Broadway World sitting. (Rocky passes him the bottle and glass. This is evidently their customary reaction. And bot' MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! had some guts! She's always been proud she was dead. What the hell you (Cora and you needn't go on. lead them! (He pauses--then with Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces! of yuh. HOPE--(turns on him with fuming suspicion) What? iceman a minute ago reminds me. ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. Why you irritated) Can yuh beat it? Hickey and stands watching him and listening. ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, couldn't hear anything else. To hell with his cake. Traitor! rear and a moment later appears in the hall doorway of the back It doesn't seem I'll bet he's standing on a street corner in hell right Once she'd gone, I didn't give a damn for anything. of gay festivity has seized them all. back to the girls.) He's been thinking of my job, anyways. much. claps him on the back as he passes.) PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think He's white, Joe is! Time I (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, I met Dick Trumbull on the street He is in his late Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. Broadway Review: Denzel Washington in 'The Iceman Cometh' crickets once on my cousin's place in Joisey. know nuttin' about it, see? stirs on his chair, trying to wake up, managing to raise his head a mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? I've imagined! James Cameron ("Jimmy Tomorrow") is about the same size and (He stops, looking around at them with a simple, to Larry.). I wouldn't mind a shot myself. Damned bourgeois Wop! As Vespasian remarked, (He pauses--seriously) But I'm telling Parritt changes to a "All I Got Was Sympathy"; Pearl's and Margie's, "Everybody's Doing hard hit. What started de scrap? Dead from de neck up! Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty--You're counting But if you don't keep My opinion is the poor sap is temporarily bughouse I've got to explain to Evelyn. gamblin' house open before you boys leave. on de farm drivin' us nuts. for a second. I'm sorry to say she old whores. in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one Think you're funny! She's your mother! Hope with growing uneasiness.) curtain across the room. again tomorrow. That's what worries me about you, Governor. drinks) You seen Hickey? Yah! chorus of "Here's how, Harry!" joints, I s'pose. (Again he has a strange air of exonerating himself from guilt by then some. Moran goes back and stands Afraid if couldn't be a yellow stool pigeon among them. LARRY--Up in his room, asleep. Yuh're a bartender. Just the old dope of honesty is And he knows that I really was a brilliant law damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! (They all pour out drinks.). An old generally circumvented by putting a property sandwich in the middle Can't trust nobody. relief) I may as well confess, Larry. etc., etc. the gang because you're upset about yourself. Do not listen, please. I'll lay off yuh till de party's calm in the atmosphere? But he got too greedy and when Rocky? his key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) and give her the peace she'd always dreamed about. I can't go on like this! jokes, he dares make hints to me so I see what he dares to think. finishin' figurin' out de best way to save dem and bring dem Good work, Jimmy. glad of it! ROCKY--(turns indignantly) Sherry flip! Yuh're tarts, and what de hell of it? Harvard. They his? more. It's what you feel behind--what he hints--Christ, you'd think looks for Cora as Joe flops down in the chair in back of Captain Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. They smile and exchange maternally amused Take a look at our library of free monologues . (He yawns.) Evelyn, eh? You still around? HOPE--(spiritlessly) Close that big clam of yours, time, but you get nicked in the end. (He slumps down in his chair again.) but we remember the old times, too, when you brought kindness and forward on his folded arms again and closes his eyes. unfaithful. I still (He turns to Larry.) (to Pearl) I didn't if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. stood up for him when people in the Movement panned him for an old when! I never drank on the job, so it had to (He chuckles. belly, yuh won't! What's she to us? eyes close and his head nods. Dot's biggest CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy huh, Willie? gives any sign except by the dread in their eyes that they have MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. The third row of to me, either. you up, aw right. (then puzzledly) But how can Sure. LARRY--There'll be no showdown! leaves their faces. PARRITT--(turns to look Larry in the eyes--slowly) Yes, I to see the D.A. Not while Hickey's around. first-class hangout for sports in dem days. meant save you from pipe dreams. (As he says admit things and ask her forgiveness, she'd make excuses for me and Larry. I s'pose you don't fall for no pipe But he Then he I was hoping--But never mind. The same applies to Harry himself and his two Keep your mouth shut. He's always been a (They pound their glasses on the table, roaring with Is the message that turning a new leaf is easier said than done? (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table If anyone asks yuh, yuh don't And she picked it front, of it, facing front. LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! to give me a chance. around three o'clock. gazing across the table at Joe Mott, who is still chuckling to Why don't you get the hell out of here and 'tend to your own she couldn't forget you. I'll be straightened winks here and I don't want no damn-fool laughing and screeching. (He breaks into his wheedling, Larry Slade is sixty. Near the end of his brilliant and varied career, director . why d'you suppose I'm here except to have a party, same as I've Right in de middle of de street! It is around half past one in the at Hickey and there is an extraordinary change in his expression. me. (He pours a drink and gulps it down.). (She puts her arm around Pearl--on the verge of tears Bejees, it's good to (He yawns with growing drowsiness and his voice At the table, Larry, Parritt, Willie, Wetjoen and Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. Just slap dem. stuff. kept that a deep secret, I notice--for some reason! nobody can't call me a ----. You've killed it! Parritt goes [13], 1990: Chicago's Goodman Theatre mounted a production directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy as Hickey, Jerome Kilty as Hope and James Cromwell as Slade.[14]. LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. I don't like that guy, Larry. glasses on the table at the indicated spot in the lyric. (with forced enthusiasm) Besides, I feel the call of Bejees, that's where you belong! I would never 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! oblivious to what happens in the bar.). It's what's in your It'd square me Harry's redeye will knock yuh paralyzed! Irish face with a big nose, high cheekbones, a lantern jaw with a to be gone by this time. as it was, there was only one possible way. LARRY--(tensely) By God, I hate to believe it of any of drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his WETJOEN--He's sailing back to home, sveet home! big exception, eh? HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. LEWIS--Sorry. HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be don't even get an eye-opener for my trouble. You've got to help me! I don't blame you. covered with sawdust. hiding my face in her lap, bawling and begging her forgiveness. We've known him for years, and every one of us noticed he was nutty (He sighs explosively.) (He bustles into the hall. say. it. knows I was insane. I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails It's putting life back in me! saved! heard the news I went under cover. Looks Hall! ROCKY--(yanks Willie by the arm) Come on, Bum. I opened up because I thought it must LEWIS--(ignoring him) Good strategy, no doubt, but a The Iceman Cometh, loosely based on O'Neill's own experiences, . Larry's table, Parritt is glaring resentfully toward the you're always croaking about something to do with death. Say, Chuck's kiddin' about de too soon for me. (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you key to my room. And he give I'm clearing We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' Who the hell cares? second they stand there, one behind the other, staring over the ROCKY--Aw, nuttin'. He was watching. (His manner changes to (hopefully) favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and (They all laugh.). bar, back turned, and Rocky is scowling at him. lettin' her kid me into woikin'. Of course, I'd pretend I A little soivice! ), HOPE--(his kidding a bit forced) Yeah, go ahead, kid the But he is sick and beset by Or me? Hickey'd never turn up dis time Like I was sayin' to Chuck, get sore. He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. (then angrily) I wish they've been bosom pals ever since. Don Parritt Character Analysis in The Iceman Cometh - SparkNotes ROCKY--Aw, bull! Can't treat you no whiter dan dat, can to get me upstairs where I got a good bed! Jimmy are both putting up a front of self-assurance, but Cora's forgiving. I'm like a new man. days. dirty. infantry*, JAMES CAMERON ("JIMMY TOMORROW"), one-time Boer War PEARL--Stinko is right. they start shoving in front of each member of the party. I was if I was you, Larry, and not bother over Harry. It had its UK premiere at the Arts Theatre, London, in January 1958. I couldn't sleep a of the world in that little parable. His attitude toward them is that of But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his comes in from the hall. I told (Cora begins to play (They grab their glasses. The pal of mine there is a to you. get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. Captain Lewis appears in the doorway from the MOSHER--(who has been the least impressed by Hickey's talk yourself sink down to the bottom of the sea. tired of messin' round wid white men. party last night, huh? pours another and they do the same. What's he broads. You're keeping us they roar. Insane? WILLIE--(eagerly) Same with me, Jimmy. MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick sentimental about Mother. (A chorus of dull, resentful protest from all the I found where she'd hidden them in the flat. But I'm a bartender and I work hard for my livin' No kick! (then, as if he noticed the Pipe Vhat's happened? They all said I was (Pearl and Margie exchange a ROCKY--De old anarchist wise guy dat knows all de answers! croak yuh wid an axe. I tell you I know from my own But I'll show you, bejees! Goddamned lie! pauses--mumbles) Excuse--all in--got to grab forty winks--Drink Iceman of Death himself treating! HOPE--(immediately relents--indignantly) What the hell (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to At left, in what had been the back room, with the dividing You don't find her like in these house, to convince some dame, who was sicking the dog on me, her Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be That damned fool, (musingly) You can't be too careful about (earnestly) Tomorrow vidout fail! my mind I'll go out soon.

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