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Rematch. In Los Angeles, Harvey and Billie Cravaack got divorced, then got married again, later separated following a court session (Harvey claimed he awoke once to find Billie "scratching on my Adam's apple with an icepick," and Billie countered that Harvey had threatened to poison their swimming pool), finally were divorced a second time after Billie testified that Harvey had pulled her from the shower, "dragged me by the hair of my head through the house," tossed her outdoors nude, later pushed her from their car on a freeway...
Gravely they shook hands, and Tenzing, forgetting formality, hugged Hillary like a bear. Then they took photographs of the British, Nepal, Indian and U.N. flags lashed to Tenzing's icepick...
...irrational fears, morbid thoughts, hallucinations, a few had drifted into suicidal depression. But for all of them the treatment was the same. Strapped to an operating table, they got three quick jolts of electricity-enough to start violent, involuntary convulsions before they lapsed into anesthetic coma. Next a thin, icepick-like leucotome was inserted under each eyelid, hammered home through the eye socket and into the brain. Carefully manipulating the two icepicks, the doctor severed the connection between thalamus and frontal lobes in the patient's brain. The entire operation took only ten minutes...
Though it is scarcely the play to add to )'Neill's lofty prestige of the '20s and '30s, Moon does read better than The Iceman Cometh. Iceman hacked at its one point-that man cannot live without illusions-with an icepick. Moon switches from the disenchanted mind to the undernourished heart. At core, its lament for the loveless is a gentle and moving...
There are several easy-hearted songs, some lines as quietly wicked as an icepick stab, and a few fine jokes. Good joke: at one point, Hope enthusiastically explains the rest of the picture: they'll Get-The-Papers and Stop-the-Marriage; "Boy, what a finish!" There is a frightful offscreen growling that sounds like a couple of nauseated tigers. Crosby, disconcerted: "What was that?" Hope, casually: "Oh, just the Warner Brothers; they're terribly jealous...