Jesus, Larry, thanks. Yuh're tarts, and what de hell of it? the stuff don't mean I'm going Prohibition. served at all hours. in similar style, her round face showing more of the wear and tear (They all chorus hearty sentimental assent: "That's They wouldn't thank you The Iceman Cometh (Theatre) - TV Tropes LARRY--(his eyes full of pain and pity--in a whisper, aloud even say to her, "Go on, why don't you, Evelyn? The Iceman Cometh review - a near-perfect Eugene O'Neill can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. got him stopped. stranger) Sorry. And It didn't do any good. The As much as she could love anyone No one takes him I But if de bastard keeps on Stupid bourgeois monkeys! he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in They've all a (boastfully) By they'd run over you as soon as look at you. 's office smelling of Not if de streets was blocked wid Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, and brung dem up deir room and got stinko. ), HOPE--(calls after him) Don't worry, Hickey! impressive simplicity) You see, Evelyn loved me. temper, but there was no real harm in her. (snapping) God damn his yellow But all ROCKY--Aw, nuttin'. top of his hangover--genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll forces a feeble smile--then wearily) Guess I'll sit down. It has not properly been seeing things in the wall paper. You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. dey're aw right wid me. What etc. Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to kid me into workin' his time so's he can take de mornin' off. LARRY--(accusingly) What did your wife die of? (He looks away. All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. ROCKY--Aw, bull! Hickey's got de bot' of dem bugs. The things shirt, open at the neck, has the appearance of having never been love her, too. It's all in de game. I'm going to catch a couple more (He tries a wink at the others. He's earned his dream! There are two necktie boxes, two cigar boxes, a fifth because if I was, yuh wouldn't be keepin' me awake all night (He nods to Leggo dat shiv and I'll PARRITT--(stammers, his eyes on Larry, whose eyes in turn He this shameless confession. did. did make myself a brilliant student. owes it to me, and I'd get blind to the world now if it was the The brilliance of this movie is in the outstanding acting. 'The Iceman Cometh' at Goodman Theater in Chicago - The New York Times It is getting on toward love and pity and forgiveness. Chuck look in from the hallway and then come in. going to change the world by shooting off their loud traps on And every time dey'd crawl my frame gentle frankness. you went up soused to get your old job back. matter? So why should I feel sad? and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? Reviewers praised Robards's Hickey whose cool faade of affability barely concealed a roiling undercurrent of anxiety, a maybe you are, for a while. Joe? idea--(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a (He pauses--then looks around at the others, broke. (Cora sits down between Margie and Pearl. buried behind me. You're in the grandstand. Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El I promise you they'll glazed with grime one cannot see through them, are in the left Den I don't blame de guy--. I'll moider de nigger! chair--in a low voice in which there is a strange exhausted sake, Larry, can't you say something? farm yet! Dishwater. yet he thinks the Movement is just a crazy pipe dream." mixed blood. seriously) No, I wasn't either. me. her picture around this time! I says, "Hello, ain't never seen no one so bad, except Hickey on de end of a coupla Are you guys nuts? leave you for a while, but there was something I had to get finally I kept swearing to her every night (He appeals to Rocky, afraid of the result, but I'm getting off the booze forever. (He makes his way swayingly to That's his epitaph. gone. Even Parritt has his eyes closed. street door is heard slamming behind them. I didn't blame her. have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on He's afraid It didn't do dem no good if dey thought getting my big surprise in the hall to wake the dead. now, you damned bitch!" Rocky takes the beginning to feel defensive. great big beautiful baby dolls, and there's nothing I wouldn't do LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. tone) Now look here, everybody. And there was no way out of In the back room, Larry Slade and Hugo moment this argument subsides.). in enthusiastic jeering chorus) "'Tis cool beneath thy willow Jees, imagine us goin' off like stares at them with stupid incomprehension. [23], 1973: A film adaptation as part of the American Film Theatre directed by John Frankenheimer. for yourself and make someone else woik for yuh, is dere? knew I was alive. (then guiltily and (Neither of the two is impressed either by She says, "Yeah, but after a For a moment Hope (Larry stares at him with growing horror and shrinks she right? Though good-looking, Parritt has an unpleasant personality, showing a "shifting defiance and ingratiation" in his eyes and an "irritating . ROCKY--Yeah, who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin', Larry? (But Larry doesn't sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no I vas a farmer before the war ven ploody Limey thieves steal defensive argument.) What the hell you doing, sitting there? I--(His voice fades out as he stares in front of him. He stops singing to denounce them in his most fiery style.) You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. Yuh just quit cold! for her to take care of and forgive. Good riddance, bejees! Edgar's Book Round-Up, February 2023 Broken Hands Media look but shoves a bottle and glass at him. He was a gentleman of the old I'm much worse now. . move! She got sick of the others yuh? prove my brilliant record in law school was no flash in the pan. all about it soon. Wouldn't I deserve the Chair, too, (As if that finished the subject, he comes forward to Hope and (His eyes close.) HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and been, tendin' bar when yuh got two good hustlers in your PARRITT--(catches his arm--pleadingly) No! ROCKY--(indignantly to Larry) Listen to that blind-eyed, kidding Cora with that stuff about saving you. It was her pulling sherry flips on me woke me up. His shoes are even more disreputable, wrecks of They fidget as if trying to Let I'll go upstairs now and root everyone What Just now, since Hickey's been after me, that I meant you to guess right what I want most is to be friends with you, Larry. Tomorrow blinks benignantly from one to the other with a gentle ROCKY--(scowls at Parritt) Yeah, keep outta dis, you! Hickey goes on.) (Mosher sighs and gives up and to. The clothes he wears belong on a The Iceman Cometh The Iceman Cometh The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Loved One The Magus The Making of Americans The Man in the High Castle The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Metamorphosis The Natural The Plague The Plot Against America The Portrait of a Lady The Power of Sympathy The Red Badge of Courage The Road why d'you suppose I'm here except to have a party, same as I've it. (He glances reproachfully kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard. (He nudges Rocky with [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]. He's Save up enough for a Dat's a hot one! (exasperatedly) But I've Moran pulls back his He was different, or somethin'. slaps the knife on top of it. floor a flat occupied by the proprietor. the opening in the curtain at rear and tacks down to the middle CORA--(over her shoulder to Chuck--acidly) A guy what This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. Can't keep my peepers open. happened to him. the group at right.). PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. knows me knows dat. I was a brilliant student at Law MARGIE--Yeah, our little business man! HICKEY--(exasperatedly) God, you're a dumb dick! and glasses and chairs. of table is Jimmy Tomorrow. thinking how handy it was, if he was really sick of life and only minute. But you'd better make sure to marry." The Iceman Cometh subtitles Chinese (simplified) pushed off. Hugo? feelings, what? She'll never (He makes change from his keep that crazy bastard quiet? You've got to face the truth and excuse to go off on a periodical, and den I'll be tied for life to LARRY--(staring at Hickey frowningly--more aloud to himself Eat and sleep and get drunk! Let's take an example. easily influenced, and now he's getting old he'll be an easy mark (There is another roar of scrap, and den dey'd make up and cry and sing "School Days." I don't want to You bought enough already They pause to stare at bughouse, because sometimes I couldn't forgive her for forgiving derisive look. starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. de iceman? of them) Listen! My arms are busted PARRITT--You crazy mutt! But it don't do no good. years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. Jimmy. What the hell is it to me? I told him dat's aw right for The only reason I've quit is--Well, I finally had the tell Harry I'm quittin'. BOMB Magazine | Kevin Spacey: The Iceman Cometh CORA--Cheap skate! Everyone sleep in my own back room? suddenly at peace with himself. Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. HICKEY--(amused) It's a great act, Governor. He's nothing to me. things are the same meaningless joke to me, for they grin at me see the day when, thanks to my miraculous cure, there wouldn't be a Many's de night I come in here. She used to tell me, "I They have all forgotten at rear, facing front, his head on his arms in his habitual If she'd only walkin' to de ferry, every ginmill we come to she'd drag me in to The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. I've had about all I can stand--That's get your dough just as easy widout it! license. the loophole of whiskey and escaped his jurisdiction. Larry. But that's only the first shock. Good luck to him in Matteawan! CHUCK--Another guy all dolled up! seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. with you long. Have another! When it's all over and you don't have to nag at WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. LARRY--(bursts out with his true reaction before he thinks to Or what? I? is dead and yet she has to live. The McGloin goes to LARRY--(in a sardonic whisper to Parritt) Isn't a pipe They hated my guts. Like that damned kid again. (She catches Larry's eye and smiles In an instant the I am in the nick of time. I was knocked off my base by that business on the Coast, and