Word: hickey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm center of the play is Hickey, the drummer, the shill for salvation through recognition of selfdelusion. He annihilates the pipedreams in which the patrons of Harry Hope's back room curl up like quaking children in the middle of a nightmare. Everyone in Harry Hope's place needs booze to nourish his dream, but it is the dream itself, not alcohol, that keeps them alive. Hickey, underneath his salesman's brass and chatter, needs rage, contempt and anguish to galvanize the entire play...
...Marvin's Hickey has the hype and the patter but only a portion of the necessary bravura. He seems to be wrestling with the vivid memory of Jason Robards in the same role, a performance of such passion that it became definitive. It may be unfair for an actor to carry such a burden, but Marvin does not carry it well. His Hickey is tentative, almost halting...
...Barbara Hickey, a mother of six school-age children, has one of the most politically well-known names in North Cambridge. She says that more attention should be paid to the grammar schools because they are in deplorable physical condition...
...productions. Hepburn and Marvin, who normally command six-figure salaries, worked for a token $25,-000 plus percentages; others worked for even less, lured by high-caliber colleagues, juicy roles and the chance to permanently record their performances in those roles on film. When Landau approached Marvin to play Hickey in Iceman, Marvin's answer was to quote at length Rickey's fourth-act soliloquy...
Goldsmith was clocked at 4.12.6. Hickey...