Iceman Cometh, The

noun

1. a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill.

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Coming off several milestones the previous year — filming Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” making his Broadway debut opposite Denzel Washington in “The Iceman Cometh” — the rising actor put all auditions and meetings on hold for the next five months to concentrate on landing the role of a lifetime.

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Mr. Robinson’s other Broadway roles included gambler Joe Mott in the 1985 revival of “The Iceman Cometh,” the Eugene O’Neill drama.

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Columbarian ColumbusesAltered statesBedtime storiesThe iceman cometh The bedtime information they used was collected during four visits interviewers made to the homes of those participating in the study.

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Or, earlier that same year, Kevin Spacey's barnstorming performance at the Almeida Theatre in "The Iceman Cometh," the O'Neill epic that Mr. Spacey then took to the Old Vic and Broadway.

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As one critic remarked bluntly of The Iceman Cometh: "The characters all start out as a bunch of drunken bums and finish the same."

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