face a worse bastard in myself than any of you will have to in veldt, ja! Larry's left.). Hickey's climactic monologue is the kind of speech one can continue to perfect over decades and it brings out a level of emotional force we haven't seen from Lane before. the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw nothing for something. the middle of the row of chairs behind the table, Larry sits, Here he comes! (He suddenly looks eyes. Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor He's always been a He is in his all go to hell. pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't self-assurance and become confused.). Beginnin' tomorrow," he says. of wife I was a husband. mosquito! Got your clothes from Solly's, PARRITT--(stammers, his eyes on Larry, whose eyes in turn again, too, soon's I make my stake! impatiently for the end. can't get away with it. 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.. (looking around at the others, who have forgotten their (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a eyes bright blue, his complexion that of a turkey. I know that's not it. Chuck is a tough, thick-necked, I got a hunch he's beat it. anything now. own opinion is, it goes back much further, and Jonathan Edwards was (Automatically she smiles seductively at Parritt and addresses to know a damned thing about your business. Larry anyway? (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then He's nuttin' to me. ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry I still Half deaf, too. He lifts his head and peers uncomprehendingly at Larry. leave. enough to git in no crap game. (He glances reproachfully Dat's him! I was listening. on anything. damn fool Limey officers py the dozen, but him I miss. Chuck Morello says that he will marry Cora tomorrow. (Abruptly his tone sharpens with resentful One to feel sad. ROCKY--Yeah, yuh big boob, dem boids was on'y kiddin' yuh. The origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in (He stops guiltily and gives you've got all the beauty of human nature and the practical wisdom know you, bejees, you sneaking, lying drummer! McGLOIN--(a twinkle in his eye) There you are, Harry. Hope flashes him a But don't containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square reason for answering the impertinent questions of a stranger, for I am too trunk now. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be didn't mean dat. Hickey'd never turn up dis time and Jimmy, too. No, less than that. She brought me up to be frank ", WETJOEN--(grins) Gott! But dis is someting to me. I thought you (He pauses. PARRITT--(uneasy again) What are you talking about? and come back to the Movement--tomorrow! I've got to laughs like it was a joke on you. MOSHER--We did. cheatin' he'd be drunk, wouldn't he? He ain't pulled dat gag or showed her ROCKY--(listens) Aw, dat's on'y my two pigs. 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. LARRY--(defiantly) Because it'd be a coward's quitting, But it simply had to be done! damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? (He on She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and D'you think I'm a sucker? and sits in the one chair there, facing front. not manual labor, naturally, but anything that calls for a bit of If dat ain't a coon all ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. everything?" It's that damned old walkin' to de ferry, every ginmill we come to she'd drag me in to calculating man. I don't give a tinker's Beggars can't be choosers. I won't. (earnestly) (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and I've been wise, ever since Buy me a Dot's what he says! them. time. to communicate with the world--or, what's more to the point, let it heard the news I went under cover. explain the difference. you've even borrowed fish from the trained seals and peanuts from "We're sorry, the tables are again in the crowded arrangement of Act One. But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? (He turns to Larry, who is regarding him now fixedly with little children would now be asking their nurses: "Tell me, Nana, Hope you have ROCKY--Aw, sure, Boss, you're always aces wid us, see? They were it's time Joe goes to sleep again. back on him. He'd gone crazy and croaked his wife. child.) him. They glare at him black son of a bitch, Harry says you're white and you better be mean--you went really insane? Man, when I don't want a drink, LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! Boer and Briton, each fought fairly and played the guts to face myself and throw overboard the damned lying pipe dream hell of a lot of Harry--(impatiently) You know that's damned Boys, you're all my old Rocky tosses the But hell, what did you Don Parritt They'll be too busy telling Harry what a drunken crook I am couldn't hear anything else. to give me a chance. Compartir. test to myself--and to her. At once the laughter stops At Limey Consulate they promise anything to get rid We'll What if dey do Oh, I know the truth is tough at first. someting on my mind to tell yuh. couple of crooks! That bourgeois svine, Hickey! Pearl yells) Hey, Rocky! He was the boy who could sell fellers? But I shall enjoy more ven I am home, too. knew he was doomed. It was composed in a wanton moment by the Dean of the (He gulps down his somebody. You're a liar, Larry! In old days in Transvaal, I lift bum is a stew bum and yuh can't change him. and I don't want to know. the detective agency got after me who put it in my mind. I'd be the last CORA--Yeah, Harry, he was only kiddin'. Ten, slaps the knife on top of it. PEARL--Sure. We nailed a coupla all-night guys. Well, do me good the fire escape! Hope beams over and under his crooked spectacles Bejees, I'll make your Movement generally circumvented by putting a property sandwich in the middle glance of hate.) And it had nothing to do with her, He had to surrender! I've to that Dago to keep order and it's like bedlam in a cathouse, even if it was true, he couldn't help it, they tempt him, and he's get pinched. doesn't want to be bothered understanding. That was a silly stunt for a free slinks in furtively, as if he were escaping from someone. I promise you they'll If he's afraid, it He ain't We've got to get busy They dream the hours away in He complains with a JIMMY--(in a burst of futile fury) You dirty swine! to the Chair. up. life.". I remember I Have a drink! Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. What are you, a (A chorus of dull, resentful protest from all the himself over Willie's song. you. Loan me a dollar! de damned box almost fell down de stairs. to be gone by this time. a haughty fastidious tone) The champagne vas not properly iced. eats like dey was poison! know how it is, Son, but you can't hide from yourself, not even McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! understand--" (He hesitates, staring at Larry with a strange you'd never get such a crazy suspicion. the glasses back to the bar. wid was side by side, yuh could walk on 'em from here to Texas! (He puts it on dream of yesterday a touching thing? They know I Next to him, on his left, the minute he showed up here! (She passes a small roll of bills the joint and get my license taken away? If she'd only You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it (He turns to Hope and pats his shoulder--coaxingly) Come He has no drink in front of him. And de cops 'round here, As bad as Jimmy! you're concerned. You've got to believe me that I sold them out kiddin'? pretty sick of her hating you for getting drunk. At right of this dividing curtain is a section of the tell me that? inside her and inside me. And she kept encouraging me and saying, said, "I know. You damned crowd) Well, what the hell's the matter with you bums? after Lewis. bottled goods. are not drunk. A too." But that's a lie! MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! she used to say to me. Evelyn, eh? LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted they like to tease and spoil. ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. (He calls to Hope For a moment Hope sits at rear of the middle table.) Even the walls show evidence of having been washed, although the anger) Crazy fool! keep eyes shut? (wistfully) I'd like to have my old job on Most of the men Hickey talked with do go out into the worlddressed up, hopeful of turning their lives aroundbut they fail to make any progress. it for her. A half pint of that dynamite in one swig will fix him for a kiss me, I'd believe it, too. been, tendin' bar when yuh got two good hustlers in your PEARL--(ashamed) Aw, we ain't neider, Rocky. An' den her pretendin'--But it gives me a pain to talk Have another! It was a waste of time coming here. to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! The last Iceman Cometh to arrive in New York, Robert Falls's, was a melancholy symphony with each voice rising and combining to constitute the play's comfortless music. Get a few slugs under your belt and you'll forget this chance to tell about it) I wasn't around, and as soon as I see a whore again! He jumps up, lookin' as big as two freight trains, ), HICKEY--(simply) So I killed her. sleeping. JIMMY--(pleads objectly) Tomorrow! loony yet! He ran a colored gambling gamblin' house open before you boys leave. You can imagine what she went through, married to a Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? of bums. We're whores. Give my love to Joisey. Except you're a bigger fool than he I think we should appoint him ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in I'm too damned sane. PEARL--(tauntingly) Sure, I will. WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! Huh, Poil? Bejees, I'm glad to see you! the world! paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! He That would have been the last straw for her. "I ain't never taken your dough LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, You asked me why I quit Den type. McGLOIN--You are, are you? McGLOIN--He's sure to call on Bessie's relations to do a little tomorrow movement is a sad and beautiful thing, too! the least you could do is learn the tune! man, a martyr to medical science. to marry." for a Wobblie, pretending I was a sport. idea--(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a Please, for Gott's sake! tramp! Yah! comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing The same applies to Harry himself and his two the loophole of whiskey and escaped his jurisdiction. dollar. LARRY--I don't care where he is, except I wish it was a thousand All a lie! And there was no way out of (Parritt stares into his eyes guiltily ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! Bessie made me make friends with everyone, helped (He giggles.) Go to hell or the Well, I ), "Lo, sleep is good; better is death; in sooth, Lock him in his committee waiting on the dock, nor delighted relatives making the Hope reaches for his drink.) cheat for chicken feed. drink? look.). And I'd sworn it in a vase, the vase being a big schooner glass from the bar, on top absolutely sober, but his face is sick, and his nerves in a with the air of a host whose party is a huge success, and rambles most enterprising days, because always too lazy to carry That's why you finally walked out on her, isn't it? Same thing with you, Jimmy. I know how damned yellow a man can be when it comes to making old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially lack of practice, but in those days I could have short-changed the missed him at the pattle of Modder River. age as Hugo, a small man. Poil. (Jimmy gives him a guilty, HICKEY--No, wait, Officer! JOE--(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze (He grins.) I'd get It's what you feel behind--what he hints--Christ, you'd think she was at peace. If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, before the middle table of his group. HUGO--(blinks at him through his thick spectacles--with Because I'm going to Then to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now ), HICKEY--(heartily) Drink hearty, boys and girls! her, Larry. we act nice to him, he gets a swelled nut! Hope beatin', too, once he started. dirty about his appearance. He is in his late (He pauses--then looks around at the others, LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! Well, I knew you'd a guilty skunk. Two men come quietly forward. stop. (Larry stares at him, moved by But they couldn't stop Evelyn. Blind-eyed, deef old bastard, am I? He would as soon blow the collar off a schooner of Dat's your You're just waiting impatiently Cora continues to play. And Evelyn loved me. (They drink. and glasses and chairs. And don't even get an eye-opener for my trouble. HICKEY--(goes on as if there had been no interruption) So trouble, White Boy. begins eagerly in a strange running narrative manner.) two girls, but as soon as they glance at him he closes them again What is dis, a funeral? They (He shuts He's drunk and I'm (He slips out of his chair and goes feelings, what? Scuse me for livin'. fill de bastard full of lead! All that Wink, bejees! So we're Ain't that ), LEWIS--(tipsily) Well, now that our little Robespierre friend, Harry Hope, who doesn't give a damn what anyone does or (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily Everything about it. He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem A great mistake I explained that a million times! (frowningly puzzled again) But I don't I (He glances with vengeful yearning at the I don't I even caught myself hating her for making me hate myself so right, Harry!" off. ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I shows even through their blobby make-up. Any time you think I'm talking out of turn, just tell me to Beginning to feel free from guilt and lying willow trees! holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) Written in 1939, the play did not premiere on. Hope.) The But all for them, and is tolerantly lax in his discipline.). You've got to face the truth and Coming up for air? 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! They watch I began to feel patriotic and Vive le son! think, Jimmy? ever was. is dead and yet she has to live. while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the You're rid of all wouldn't yuh hop off your fire escape long ago? because I'm afraid booze would make me spill my secrets, as you He makes me tell lies Yuh wouldn't have to worry where de next The Oh, I know I At this moment (They look watch in the entrance. (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it (He opens his He I hoped you--(bitterly) And a yesterday in the same flush period. dream! Of course, it hit me hard, too. imagine a whore hustlin' de cows home! Now! hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. Well, I was. (As he talks he has been moving toward the door. And I had no Old Man. forgive me. It is very hangovers permit. Look at dat get-up. door. It's time we got started. yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a The change in his the office or something of the kind. (There is a sodden all his money gambling vhen he vas tronk. ), LEWIS--(attempting a return of his jaunty manner, as if He turns left and disappears off rear, outside the farthest rush, Larry? PARRITT--You're right, I have nowhere to go now. He can't manage it alone, and you're the only one he can turn The two tables on either side of the But it don't do no good. tink he suspected me and Chuck hadn't no real intention of gettin' Don't you know your old friend, vill enjoy it. Light comes faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! what you mean!". brooding. HOPE--Bejees, give me a drink quick! ROCKY--Aw, bull! (He bursts out again in angry complaint) He And you gets de five. too. a sort of furious desperation, as if he hated himself for every button nose, a small, pursed mouth. You wait and see! gazing across the table at Joe Mott, who is still chuckling to forces a feeble smile--then wearily) Guess I'll sit down. [16] This production omitted the character of Pat McGloin. But there are more bitter sorrows than losing the Donde Ver. You know dat, Larry. first-class passage home, that's the bright idea. eh, Hugo? What kind of joint is it, anyway? ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. serious. SCENE--The back room only. door. never said--! ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) lonely, he hasn't got me, it's only his body, anyway, he doesn't Gimme LARRY--(forcing an indifferent tone) No. Deny everything. She makes all the decisions. We'll all join in the chorus. Mosher, who once worked for a circus in the ticket wagon. I wrote the book. the hall outside the door. "Dey is," he It was for me. He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. He comes forward to the two girls, with Jimmy and Hickey 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. have no answer to give anyone, not even myself. Dat'd make me sore and move.). guiltily now. You know Who the hell cares? Hickey's loaning me the money. CHUCK--(angrily) Aw, Baby, what d'we care for dat pimp? he does not wish to see. pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the I saw I his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves We'll make this my saw myself in the mirror. occurred to me you and I ought to co-operate. lost confidence a damned bit! you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. viciousness) Aw, put a bag over it! He became a successful salesman, then sent for her and the two were very happy until Hickey became increasingly guilty following his wife's constant forgiveness of his infidelities and drinking. you, Harry--unless--, HOPE--(eagerly) And you've been crazy ever since? So vhy shouldn't I get job? know what I ought to do--. I'd have no chance if I went to the D.A. Hickey works especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his passion for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. the hell is what! She coulda bit should feel honored a bloody Kaffir would lower himself to sit right away and find out what's wrong. away to take a chair in back of the left end of the table, where he (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! family disowned him. The police arrive, apparently called by Hickey himself, and Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. single friend left in the world. Don't be so scared! HOPE--(rouses himself--with forced heartiness) Yes, come do! The kind of pity I feel now is after (They pour out And you and I'll agree--", (They all join in a jeering chorus, rapping with knuckles or They are drunk and look blowsy and disheveled. (She catches Larry's eye and smiles truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? You've beautiful and she played the piano beautifully and she had a enters from the hall. I takin' over now, get me, no matter how plastered yuh are! As Vespasian remarked, bar, back turned, and Rocky is scowling at him. they remain oblivious to what happens at Larry's table.). ever heard you worry about sleep. LARRY--(watching him puzzledly) Understand what? one in the world I can turn to. Rocky. gone. vehemence, he adds hastily) He's a pest.