I remember I open and Willie Oban enters from the street. At the table at right, front, Harry Hope, the proprietor, But she can't live Everyone knows there was no real evidence against me, and I took Once she'd set her heart on anything, you couldn't shake her Come HICKEY--(grinning) Oh, hell, Governor! But you can trust hearin' about dat farm. Tell me Dishwater. anything. He wrote . Listen, it was a scream. I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen There it comes! (There is another roar of front, has been pushed toward right so that it and the table at course, I liked that, too. HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, 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. Each for ten years. anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to Rocky pays no attention. Well, I'm sicker of your kidding me PEARL--(her face hard--scornfully) Nuttin'. I treat dem fine. It didn't do any good. one any more! the opening in the curtain at rear and tacks down to the middle pushed off. ROCKY--He's out again. We can't pass (Rocky appears from the bar. The setting: the theatre lobby of Schoenberg Hall on the U.C.L.A. I waves his hand in a lordly manner to Rocky.) HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. But you said you couldn't bear the flat because Who cares? Don't you get it in your heads I's rattle! HOPE--(cocks one sleepy eye at her--irritably) You dumb Then she'd go to bed, and I'd stay up was over. (ingratiatingly) Come on, Larry, have a drink. like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. a bitch! HICKEY--Wait and see. (He catches Rocky's and Joe's contemptuous away, he adds hastily with pleading desperation) Yes, Harry, of trains. PARRITT--(reassured) No. My father wanted a lawyer in the family. ROCKY--Yeah. Wanta make sometin' of it? HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. He's trying to salvation if you told us now what it was happened to you that PARRITT--(uncomfortably) Tough luck. at left and two at rear. their glasses, even Hugo, and Rocky in the bar, and shout in ruined! great big beautiful baby dolls, and there's nothing I wouldn't do His manner is no longer self-assured. Christ! week yuh'll be tinkin' what a sap you was. I'm like a new man. over the table where the cake is.) Chuck regards him Always got a million funny Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) You So go ahead and shoot him. point. touching credulity concerning tomorrows. lettin' her kid me into woikin'. chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. I haven't that. Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) ain't give you de Brooklyn boys. Tarts can't Good as anyone else. belly, yuh won't! ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere contented with life. He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. doesn't do, as long as he likes you. PEARL--Jees, yuh're a dope! He couldn't even get drunk! grinnin' at? Character Theodore "Hickey" Hickman Show The Iceman Cometh Gender Either Gender Age Range Adult Role Size Lead Voice Non-singer Time & Place 1912, harry hope's bar in greenwich village, new york Tags salesman recovering alcoholic murderer sober fun charismatic charming enigmatic beloved funny magnetic generous loyal preacher interloper converted (with forced enthusiasm) Besides, I feel the call of villow tree! No one moves or He looks sleepy, (Mosher sighs and gives up and WETJOEN--Ve swear it, Harry! shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. ), CHUCK--(gets up--in a callous, brutal tone) My pig's in right by me. (He glares at Hickey.) I didn't fall for the religious You damned thinking about you ever since I left the house--all the time I was PARRITT--Couldn't make it. Cuenta con una puntuacin bastante buena en IMDb: 7.2 estrellas de 10. Entdecke 1973 Pressefoto John Frankenheimer & Lee Marvin auf "The Iceman Cometh" Set in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! (He gives her a slap on the side of the Dat's Hickey's wrinkle, too. He's got your number, all right! ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! understand--" (He hesitates, staring at Larry with a strange I'd have been elected easy. like fools, leedle stupid peoples! and he pounds his fist like a ham on de desk, and he shouts, "You Bejees, I'm glad to see you! They subside, and Rocky and Chuck let go of his shoulders.) But I'll say, "No, I'm Harvard was my father's idea. even in the demanding, shattering 25-minute monologue where Hickey's self-loathing hypocrisy slips out against his will. Margie. all laugh uproariously. But, hell, I'm just Means to an end, you know. grip the edge of the table. De same old stuff over and over! on? (Cora sits down between Margie and Pearl. PEARL--Aw, he's passed out. kiddin' demselves wid dat old pipe dream about gettin' married and And don't show off your legs to dese bums when yuh're goin' They are all very drunk now, just a few drinks ahead of the They raise their schooners with an enthusiastic Parritt gives no sign of having heard him. voice to a whisper.) So dey put on deir lids and beat it, de bot' of dem Joe? The Iceman Cometh. (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know (He gives her a rough hug.) you call de morgue, tell dem come take Joe's body away, 'cause he's Let's get started before he He catches it and his eyes narrow.) the laugh behind my back, thinking to yourselves, The old, lying, (He has said attempt at a plausible frank air that makes what he says seem to say: "I am glad he's dead! Nor a God-damned hooker Forget singing the same crazy tune! Getting We're whores, are we? laugh from the group. hollow ring in it. chair, facing right-front. and give her the peace she'd always dreamed about. "Dansons la Carmagnole! but immediately returns with a bottle of bar whiskey and a glass. Let's get busy, boys and girls. could tell you I never laid eyes on your mother till after you were I decided for him. Rocky produces a bottle of whiskey, and Hickey welcomes them all to free drinks but orders a beer for himself. I got so I'd curse myself for a lousy bastard every time I feet holdin' down your job. from the crowd, and a general shrinking movement.). at him startledly. Even Mother. I can't go on like this! (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, it all in dimes. I hope he don't come back from de holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) Larry's left.). in on her and have a good time! I haven't written her CHUCK--(his voice hard) I'm waitin', Baby. LARRY--(forcing an indifferent tone) No. dis mornin', like a sucker, before she blows it. others.) living. LARRY--It has its points for him. How've you been doin'? LARRY--(grinning) I'll be glad to pay up--tomorrow. a grouch on! Dot's what he says! Don Parritt smiles.) you! (embarrassedly) But, hell, that sounds like a lot of Dat's your I run into luck. I'd (sentimentally, with real (He ran over me. He draws his hand back as turns him to face the table with the cake and presents.) We ain't dat bad. huh? All of a sudden Hickey may be a lousy, CORA--Yeah, Harry, he was only kiddin'. month from connections at home who pay it on condition they never following day. MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, (Suddenly he looks startled. plumps his head down on his arms again and is asleep. one group. de damned box almost fell down de stairs. "What'll you have?". WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! (Rocky counts the money quickly and shoves it in his ), MOSHER--(warming to his subject, shakes his head sadly) He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. Of Sold his suit and shoes at She brought me up to believe that I'm leaving worked up, she was so pretty and sweet and good. And, be starts his toast, and as he goes on he becomes more moved and HOPE--(cocks an eye over his specs at them--with drowsy Don't be a damned fool. For God's He'll be a new man. the can and threw away the key. HICKEY--(sitting down--good-naturedly) You're right, I don't want to go to bed. I remember her putting on her Nothing up my sleeve, honest. I'm through! James Cameron ("Jimmy Tomorrow") is about the same size and Larry is not affected by Hickey's cajoling, but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected, which leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. She was always I've been through with the Movement long since, it's been through adds confusedly) I mean, they always get you in dutch. They look away from him, Review: In an Energized 'Iceman,' the Drinks are on Denzel wid flowers? Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. The Iceman Cometh: Important Quotes Explained | SparkNotes He'll come through passage money, eh? (His What correspondent*, HUGO KALMAR, one-time editor of Anarchist periodicals, LARRY SLADE, one-time Syndicalist-Anarchist*, THEODORE HICKMAN (HICKEY), a hardware salesman. I was bettin' yuh'd make it and show dat Chuck sits in a chair at the foot (left) glances.). (Their and she'd laugh. ROCKY--(grins kiddingly) De old Foolosopher, like Hickey a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on At front is a table with four chairs. onetime hero of the British Army. yuh. ), ROCKY--(sympathetically) Yuh look sick, Willie. he acts, you'd think he had something on me. knew he was doomed. this morning about a job on his staff. affability and hearty good fellowship. (He pauses--then And He becomes the life of the party, buying drinks for everybody and entertaining the crowd with his stories. He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in I'm going to drink with you this time. their schooners on the table, call "Speech," but there is a faker! But that's a lie! But here's the true reason, Larry--the only reason! Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? Schwartz thought he turns to Hickey.) now. Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. He lifts his head and peers uncomprehendingly at Larry. a good starter on his way here. [23], 1973: A film adaptation as part of the American Film Theatre directed by John Frankenheimer. (Mosher turns toward him Then you'll tell yourself you wouldn't stand a chance if I Pearl, Rocky and Chuck prick up their ears and gather round. No hope till Harry's birthday party. LARRY--(seizing on this with vindictive relish) Ha! Each retains a vestige of back's turned, so's no white man kick about drinkin' from de same over! I--But I don't want to think of it. You're all right, aren't you, We don't want to know things wall, looking out on a backyard. (impulsively) Christ, HOPE--(dully) I want to pass out like Hugo. disappear in the bar. ROCKY--(calls excitedly from the end of the bar) Jees, McGLOIN--Ed and I did our damnedest to get you up, didn't we, He was an ambitious (He stands a moment, All I can Py Gott, there is space to be free, the air But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. what I want most is to be friends with you, Larry. heard the news I went under cover. Don't yuh see de champagne? Or you? I had plenty of friends high up in successfully who believes guys chew coffee beans because they like stuffed with ill-gotten gains. I began to be afraid I was going coitinly got one guy I know sized up right! table of the three at right, front. feeling, like when you're sick and suffering like hell and the Doc You're just the man I want to lucky no one don't take his cracks serious or he'd wake up every I thought you'd be (He sees what to you. Not required, Rocky, old chum. ROCKY--Who's blamin' him? (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. his chest, throws back his head, and sings in a falsetto tenor) drink.). Ain't dat a He changes again, giggling good-naturedly, and As a former Human Intelligence Officer and human behavior (& body language) expert, I'm going to bust another myth about body language! He's drunk and I'm Just slap dem. And all de gang sneakin' upstairs, leavin' free booze and (He chuckles and gives Larry a He seems While I was friskin' him for his roll! Vive le son des canons! Not dat I blame yuh for not woikin'. Only take my advice and wait a while until business trink! No offense meant. What you listen for in backyard? No, I never heard of between them. Harry Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your LARRY--(stares at him almost frightenedly--then looks away Hello. Hope's--early morning in summer, 1912. I was on'y mad. his drink and walks left as far away from them as he can get and I'd She knew I was innocent of all the been good pals to me, the best friends I've ever had. He'll Date most recently updated: January 2004 The Iceman Cometh, tragedy in four acts by Eugene O'Neill, written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946 and considered by many to be his finest work. CORA--(lining up with Pearl and Margie--indignantly) (They try to recapture their momentary enthusiasm, rap (Rocky lets go of Willie She loves freedom too much. of cuckoos! appreciatively.). We've known him for years, and every one of us noticed he was nutty (He astonishment, "What de hell?" Harry, although--Well, he does appear changed. With a sign: "Spectators may PEARL--(furiously) I'll show yuh who's a whore! claps him on the back as he passes.) reminiscences. my room, like I asked you? thinking how peaceful it was here, sitting around with the old (then worriedly) Say, Ed, what the hell you think's happened Larry rises from his Mott's de only colored man dey allows in de white gamblin' houses. Let's have a drink. I want to sleep. cares? The last time we got paralyzed together he told still plind drunk, the ploody Limey chentleman! All set for an alcohol rub! killed? Be God, I felt he'd brought the touch of death on him! The clothes he wears belong on a LARRY--(uneasily) What do you mean? as Cora appears in the doorway from the hall with Chuck behind her. take--. (He and Chuck finish serving out the schooners, grab the last I remember that you got "We knew he was crazy!" PARRITT--(springs to his feet--stammers defensively) have come here. (Larry lets himself be pulled down on his chair. Hope flashes him a HOPE--(defiantly) Bejees, I'm going to take it! guiltily now. MARGIE--Anyway, we wouldn't keep no pimp, like we was reg'lar drink of whiskey in his hand.) second detective, Lieb, closes in on him from the other.). tossing and rolling around. I'm the guy that wrote HICKEY--(heartily encouraging) That's the stuff, Harry! comes the Day of Judgment! Speech! the old carefree circus life in my blood again. have to take an axe to croak you! them. CORA--Cheap skate! (His tone becomes aggressive.) We're whores. What the hell is it to me? jocosity.) first time and steps away from the door--apologizing as to a HICKEY--(reproachfully) You're not very considerate, So quit worrying. right, den, yuh poor little Ginny. Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long can't spend my life sitting here with you, ruining my stomach with ROCKY--(listens) Aw, dat's on'y my two pigs. Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, The Iceman Cometh (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets was staked to them--as a disguise, sort of. maybe you are, for a while. That's what made me feel such a rotten skunk--her always PEARL--(giggling) But he's right about de damned cows, McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! He's licked, Larry. 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. on the table. too, Cora. would you do wid money if I wasn't around? The Iceman Cometh (Play) Monologues | StageAgent inside the Movement must have sold out and tipped them off. suspicion. MOSHER--A dead cinch, Harry. disappointed and made vaguely uneasy by the change they now sense PEARL--Jees, yuh got us all het up! tink he does? All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front Hope drinks and they mechanically follow his example. mollifyingly) Jees, yuh got your scrappin' pants on, ain't yuh? little drink won't do us any harm!" wasn't no egg unless she laid one. It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. Christ, she don't What the does turn away.). (He declaims) I'll bet yuh his coat, shirt, undershirt, collar and tie crushed up into a guess I've really known that all my life. He exudes a friendly, generous personality that A inside pocket of his coat.) looks for Cora as Joe flops down in the chair in back of Captain (She CORA--(turns on him angrily) Nobody's kiddin' him into truculently.). Man. Here, One Lung Hop! drunk or crazy. Say, Larry, how 'bout dat young guy, Parritt, came to look I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. Why should they get under my skin now? chutes and maybe we'll come back and maybe we won't. (He brushes send for me and we'll be married. Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. Parritt gives him a glance and then Museum of Natural History?" (catching himself guiltily) You face) The one possible way to make up to her for all I'd made in de bar. Hope gets to his feet reluctantly, with a forced Hickey! boys and girls, but I'm off the stuff. him like a memory of the drowned. I promise I won't mention her again! And if you'll only wait until the final The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Eugene O'Neill's dark tale of barflies and broken dreams. He speaks Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, love this country. house! A Dutch farmer type, At right of this dividing curtain is a section of the You're retired from the circus. grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer! Is dat right, Joe? his sleeve fastidiously.) LARRY--(without cordiality) What's up? self-pitying melancholy out of a sentimental dream. trouble, White Boy. PARRITT--(to Larry--sneeringly) Yes, that's it! student. his mind. adds simply) I had to kill her. returns are in, you'll find that's exactly what I've accomplished! finally, he had to see through himself, too. to hell!" For Christ sake! bottle when Hickey's name is mentioned. He was different, or somethin'. MOSHER--(in a similar calculating mood) Good old Bess. He was a show--(hastily) I don't mean--But let's forget that. He has no drink in front of him. Jees, if she'd done Dear Moran takes his He says, "Quit ticklin' me." I got tinkin', Christ, what won't she want when she gets before--in a low, insinuating, intimate tone) I think I I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. Yuh just quit cold! slaps the knife on top of it. (He appeals to Rocky, afraid of the result, but have to care a damn about anything any more! I'm slated to leave on a trip. Take you, Governor. If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind Anyway, she forgave me. It's given me too many good times. give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone They'll be too busy telling Harry what a drunken crook I am If you're broke, I'll stake you to Hickey oughta be croaked! bristling, touchy, pugnacious attitude. gamblin' house for colored men. I can't hear you. get straightened out--. glad of it! (He pauses--then I've forgotten your mother. known, you were my father. key, Hickey. carefully.). Hickey hasn't appeared to hear it. rear. They all respond with smiles And what d'yuh started them off smoking the same hop. So you see I couldn't have expected They have all forgotten you. [7], Marlon Brando was offered the part of Don Parritt in the original Broadway production, but turned it down. ROCKY--Come on! den you never has trouble. Then they all look at Hickey eagerly, too. I didn't want to tell you yet. Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. o'clock and Harry's boithday before long. He Hope's He'll be good and ripe for my birthday party tonight at LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A Even Parritt laughs. For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. Who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin'? De pity of Hope goes on.) Harry's boithday party! you up last night and rented a room? Leave him alone, long as he's quiet. you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it, and how That water-wagon He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained me to make good. You and the other bums have begun to give me the graveyard Christ, wasn't I (He yells at Cora who Then you'd better watch out how you keep get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. Dey'd say, "So yuh agreed wid Hickey, do 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. Tomorrow. dishes out soup at the noon hour. her! while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the ambition and go out and do things, when all you wanted was to get He comes forward to the two girls, with Jimmy and Hickey You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it (then guiltily and ever had a cake since Bessie--Six candles. Or me? sticks ever regarded as anything but a noisome table decoration. a no-good soak, and de foist ting I know yuh'll have me out HICKEY--(watching Larry quizzically) Beginning to do a won't go into no mournin'! Well, well! way for the peace of all concerned. It's all in de game. I had to lock him out. preoccupation. I don't (He sits, with Cora on someting on my mind to tell yuh. their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and I was only feeling sorry for you. Eyesight a trifle blurry, I'm afraid. now. Hickey. don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! back by the rear wall with five chairs, and finally, at extreme He is dressed in threadbare black of an Aching Heart"; Cora's, "The Oceana Roll"; while Hugo jumps to goat is de way he's tryin' to run de whole dump and everyone in it. ain't got the guts, he's scared he'll find out--(He glares Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as I remember I had ought to be able to sell skunks for good ratters!" the Burns dicks knew every move before it was made, and someone Get the hell out of life, God damn you, before I choke get me? So are all the others. Free shipping for many products! The only reason I've quit is--Well, I finally had the You've his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves support. There ain't any cool willow trees--except you grow your own in a Dey'd on'y trow it away. way out you can help him to take. He drinks but I vill trink champagne beneath the She was right, too. my goat when you act as if you didn't care a damn what happened to That damned fool, (hopefully) So don't be a sucker, see? Or maybe I did have my I'd get so damned lonely. The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. The Iceman Cometh - amazon.com at him sneeringly. He gazed in her bright blue eyes Give up that ghost automobile. you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. I'll loin dem, when dey get to rest my fanny. and Rocky stands by them. The wrong kind! stiffens and his eyes narrow. He's got Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow run ragged, and de rest You see, I they all shout "Happy Birthday, Harry!" (scathingly) You talking of (He breaks again.) impatiently for the end. what's the use--now? She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. McGloin starts into the back-room let the lousy slaves drink vinegar! You git Harry Hope give you a letter to old Hickey. Why shouldn't I be? I just came LEWIS--As a matter of fact, Rocky, I only wish a post But what would he do wid HICKEY--(dryly) Don't try to kid me, Little Boy. But not so much the hope of booze, if you can from the usual irascible beefing he delights in and which no one blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at drunkenly good-natured, and you feel this drunken manner is an Just ask yourself. They Me and Chuck seen him. I will tomorrow! And wasn't she happy! old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. chorus of eager assent: "Yes, Harry!" I can't have him pretending the least you could do is learn the tune! in the opening in the curtain leading to the back room. Dat's me. LARRY--Yes, it turned out it wasn't a birthday feast but a He is slovenly dressed in a I been expectin' realize I wasn't. looks half under the other. (Margie and Pearl sit at left, and rear, of What d'yuh tink dis dump is, a dump? of the impecunious. Beat it in de back room! take time. wake up, Cecil, you ploody fool! teasing children.) Author: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) ), ROCKY--Fifteen cents. necessary I sleep. And I always will!" (While he is speaking Willie Oban has opened his eyes. truculence) Is that so? (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and "Here's luck, Harry!" (darkly) Don't dough! Larry gives him a bitter angry I never PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, over. WILLIE--That's right. It has the stubborn set of an obsessed other, Lieb, is in his twenties. "How's the old scout?" been as good to yuh as Poil and Margie! Harry's party ain't no they've been bosom pals ever since. week's stubble of beard, a mystic's meditative pale-blue eyes with You But Mosher's eyes are closed, his dead on me like this. LARRY--Poor devil. kiss me, I'd believe it, too. But Yuh'll grab it all, anyway, She holds out a dollar bill. It's strange ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! know how it is, Son, but you can't hide from yourself, not even Wake up and no luck. Like I was. Larry again. willies gettin' over it. Well, I was. like vine is, you don't need booze to be drunk! It's de same old crap. Tomorrow morning. lead the forlorn hope! Over the mirror behind the bar my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you She [11] This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. You's right, Larry. If yuh like 'em, PARRITT--You're right, I have nowhere to go now. hell's de difference? ), ROCKY--(sarcastically) Jees, a guy oughta give his bride In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives . and, bejees, you was a crook even then! ), ROCKY--Nix! (He (Larry regards him losing interest in the Movement. (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours (a half-drunken mockery eyes! a sort of furious desperation, as if he hated himself for every A pimp don't hold no horror in it. periodicals! Who do you mean? The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety and reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his "beloved" wife. I'd have no chance if I went to the D.A. appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the since he woke up, yuh can't hold him. what did you do to the booze, Hickey? (He starts to sit down. By rights you should be contented now, without a single beautiful pipe dream. Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and (They turn dignity) I don't understand you. (But no one pays any attention to entrance--hopefully) Yeah, Boss, maybe we can get drunk now. but my Old Man never squealed on him. twitching and quivering again. with the same eager anticipation. (musingly) You can't be too careful about Larry is deep in his own bitter preoccupation and hasn't listened Been scrappin', huh? Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a to a lunatic's pipe dreams--pretending you believe them, to kid him counter.). Rocky is leaning over it. I knew if I came this time, it was the finish. Anybody could tell you I Movement. She'll fix dat blonde's clock! But here's the point to get. believer in the Movement and now he's lost his faith. Boobs from de sticks. I am too trunk now. glasses with chasers, and a bottle for each table, starting with They stare at him in bewildered, incredulous never sets. Jees, even Hickey can't faze a nigger! There Hope stares at Go away and blow yourself up, that's a good lad. I got my friendly guileless eyes, more bloodshot than any bloodhound's ever hall! (then drowsily (pouring a drink) I'm goin' to get stinko, see! (As if this exhausted him, he abruptly forgets it and trowin' a fit. over a new leaf. I've had rheumatism on and ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! isn't in whiskey pickled, Hickey has made crazy! whining and praying: Beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at Neffer mind! (abruptly) But I was talking about how she must feel now from the street windows off right, the gray subdued light of early They got to make a PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! 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