In Which We Raise a Glass to William Hickey
September 19 was the birthday of acting legend William Hickey (1927-1997). Coincidentally, Hickey is the name of the character at the heart of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh. I’m not sure William Hickey would have been right for that role, but he certainly would be for one of the other characters in that play, for he was virtually defined by a kind of pale, weak, sickly look of the sort you…










