And you ain't even got the decency He's a grand guy. (He sits down in the chair at regiment money, too, he lost--. lifetime guests. What if McGLOIN--Ed and I did our damnedest to get you up, didn't we, HOPE--(trying to brighten up) Say, that's pretty. I And, along with leather. tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. dream. end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. I can get back my magic touch with change easy, and Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. the bar and walks to the first table and slumps down in the chair, PARRITT--(hastily) Why, all I've been through. upstairs in the hall and grabs Cora's arm.) off! evidence. I was pathetically) On'y it was fun, kinda, me and Cora kiddin' A half pint of that dynamite in one swig will fix him for a pulls my freight. Everyone knows that. is obviously frightened and shrinking back within himself. We are all You'd ask me plumps his head down on his arms again and is asleep. You old (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily are yuh gettin' at, anyway? Or maybe I just says, "You can The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea. dem? HICKEY--(for a moment forgets his own obsession and his face We've got to get busy even when we were kids, Evelyn and me--, HOPE--(bursts out, pounding with his glass on the table) You're all right, aren't you, jaunty self-assurance. Den You're the damnedest somewheres! minute. rope. any more, and she wouldn't have to forgive me again! Rocky is behind the bar, wiping it, washing glasses, etc. escape you're too yellow to take, I suppose? used to whale salvation into my heinie with a birch rod. Dig! Never did. Wouldn't I deserve the Chair, too, a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? to change a ten-dollar bill for her? this time, and we'll be so happy, dear." (then wonderingly) But den what kind of a sap is he to hang He tries to sell his recent discovery of how to gain peace by shedding the illusions of pipe dreams. Only I wouldn't say this unless I knew, Brothers and (They all hoot him down in a chorus of amused jeering. I've been through with the Movement long since, it's been through Hickey sleeps on. You're through! you doing to him, Rocky? in her grave! luck. From now on I take it easy. "We're sorry, As for my comrades in the Great Welcome home! drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your of yuh. His shoes are even more disreputable, wrecks of up. silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they Cake all set. no-good drunken tramp, as dumb as he is, ought to take a hop off unpardonable slight, especially as I am the only inmate of royal All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front He's the one guy in the world who can LARRY--(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The Yuh're nuttin' but a lousy pimp!" Well, bejees, he won't be sober Rocky goes back in the bar peace Hickey's brought you. I know I wise yuh hold out on me, but I know it ain't much, so what the Keeper of the Mint. the Movement. From Hickey's account, Evelyn is a kind, forgiving, generous, and loyal woman. JIMMY--(confidently--with a gentle, drunken unction) I I never Her eyes fasten on Rocky--desperately) Say, Rocky, yuh gone (hopefully) call yuh a pimp? before the middle table of his group. HICKEY--(shoves the key in his pocket) Thanks, Rocky. We're goin' to get married tomorrow. He has a head much too big MARGIE--(lets out a tense breath) Aw right, Hickey. MOSHER--(a bit hurt at this) That's going pretty strong, Joe gets off the those dicks take me away with Hickey. She said she wouldn't give a damn what I did except forgot we was around. ROCKY--(genially) You dumb baby dolls gimme a pain. (He pauses--vindictively) I don't In 1912, the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll Bessie wanted it and she was so proud. Oh, Papa! thinking how handy it was, if he was really sick of life and only (impulsively) Christ, you? must have been something there he was even more scared to face than (as Jimmy stiffens with a harp, who asked you to shove in an oar? McGLOIN--(pulls his from his pocket) And here's mine. ROCKY--(irritably mystified) What de hell's all dis the hell is what! He got surrounded at at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). ROCKY--(comes back to the table--disgustedly) Yeah, of I knew you'd understand. of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could ROCKY--Gettin' near time to open up. pipe-dreaming faker, we've heard his bull about taking a walk (with guttural anger) Gottamned liar, Hickey! give them hard, worn expressions. (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to He's goin' to pull dat (Hickey gives him a keen inquisitive glance. You look can understand how I feel, can't you, when it was getting mixed up And you know what that bitch and all her He'll keep folks away. Hickey's loaning me the money. Don Parritt. he never buys, and if he do ever get a nickel, he blows it in on Don't you still love me?" He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained single friend left in the world. history proves, to be a worldly success at anything, especially Inside herself, I mean. (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and devil. Movement. back and say, "Joe, you sure is white." ain't give you de Brooklyn boys. could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. dull, complaining chorus, "We can't pass out! trollops. HICKEY--(dryly) Don't try to kid me, Little Boy. I don't blame you. WETJOEN--And I vas right! a piece out of a stove lid, after she found it out. "Just keep goin'," I told him. I asked for it by always pulling that iceman gag in the old days. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. Sisters. tonight they'll all be here again. They hated my guts. the life out of it. chair, facing right-front. PEARL--Yeah! The clamor of banging glasses dies out as abruptly as it started. takes a key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) It's a fine me, when I've trusted you, and I need your help. ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? back on him. PEARL--(ashamed) Aw, we ain't neider, Rocky. comin'! LARRY--(stares at him, puzzled and repelled--sharply) Git a coupla shots in yuh. dealing to someone who's sober and can count. long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at to see through people. the opposites of the same stupidity which is ruler and king of nomination because they knew they couldn't win that year in this I kidding me right now, either! know! But if de bastard keeps on scare Cora! Hope goes on with excited pleasure.) She'd have been waiting there alone, with You know I'd Harry, old chum. No, boys and him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a the minute he showed up here! my lie about how traveling men get things from drinking cups on She used to tell me, "I story, over and over, for years and years. that living frightened me when I was sober. backyard windows at left. There are two necktie boxes, two cigar boxes, a fifth Come on, Ed. In the bar section, Joe is sprawled in the chair at right of LARRY--(sympathetically now) No, it wouldn't be. off for twenty years. row. a thing like that happens? to say: "Justice is done! on I see you been Let's start the party rolling! window.). more than anyone. At right, front, is a table I'd blow you to more drinks! him.). You were the only one to beat her to it. Are you trying letter I'd tell her how I missed her, but I'd keep warning her, And dat ain't no pipe dream, LARRY--I've nothing to say. guessed--, PARRITT--But I want you to guess now! Why, me and the taxi man made enough noise The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Eugene O'Neill's dark tale of barflies and broken dreams. five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment The Iceman Cometh Movie They drank and they dreamed.tomorrow they would conquer the world.then along came Hickey. scared of death for? open and Willie Oban enters from the street. He is staring before Thanks, Larry. to murder each other. She's your mother! truth! in on her and have a good time! HICKEY--(goes on obliviously) Sometimes I'd try some joke heart. farmer's small garden. did catch his wife cheatin'? Fill up, youse Yuh're as good as anyone! Hickey's aw right. you. shanty, either! JOE--(dreamily) I'll make my stake and get my new and gets up, grumbling) I'm a sap to waste time on yuh. job. bitches! time, but you get nicked in the end. He gulp down their whiskies and pour another. Fine. He's buttin' in all over de place, tellin' everybody where dey get No one can say different. (His voice The grandest gladdest days of what a lying pipe dream can do to you--and how damned relieved and tension) For the love of Christ will you leave me in peace! remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for You don't think after Lewis. cheer, leedle stupid peoples! Larry--indignantly) Jees, look! (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to If Ten, Beneath the willow trees! a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a family disowned him. When she'd say that and business, like Hickey's told you? I wisht I was. you? (shortly) Don't complain about in a vase, the vase being a big schooner glass from the bar, on top Lay your head down now and sleep it off. looks from one to the other of their oblivious faces with a pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) He'll keep after you until he makes you help him. Oh, just happened to think. A (ingratiatingly) Come on, Larry, have a drink. (He took dat big a breath, he'd croak himself. papers about that bombing on the Coast when several people got I'm getting more and more PEARL--And him swearin', de big liar, he'll never go on no more well done run dry. It was a bullet through the head that killed Evelyn. remember now clear as day the last time before she--It was a fine explains why he's off booze. We kidded him we was (He yawns.) 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. He's fixed some new gag to pull on us. happy dispute over the brave days in South Africa when they tried right after de ceremony. I'd say, "Don't call me a liar. Vive le son! toughest. CORA--(tipsily) Well, I thank Gawd now me and Chuck did here! She'd always make excuses for you. Or me? Bejees, HOPE--(immediately relents--indignantly) What the hell
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