Katharine Ross tells Robert Redford and Paul Newman that she'll follow them to Bolivia, sew their socks and stitch their wounds but "I won't watch you die."
"I'll miss that scene if you don't mind," she says.
After 125 years of chronicling the ups and downs of the newspaper industry, Editor and Publisher is also not going to be there for the climactic scene.
The difference, of course, is that it's not by choice.
E&P would have liked to stick around to see how the drama surrounding the media plays out but its owner, the Nielsen Co., pulled the plug this week.
The irony was not lost on the E&P staffers who are losing their jobs and others closely watching a newspaper industry that some claim is in its death throes.
"After writing about too many layoffs, buyouts, furloughs and shutdowns, I got the news myself Thursday," wrote Joe Strupp, an 11-year E&P veteran.
I don't think anyone knows where our industry is headed.
But it's sad that E&P won't be there to see it.