We Care What He Did

By Baxter

We cats have already added Robert Prosky to "Human Beings We Will Miss," but we can't let his passing — well, pass — without citing a most important line he spoke in the 1986 film Broadcast News.

In the movie, after William Hurt's anchorman character hosts a special report on a U.S. shoot-down of a Libyan fighter jet, he tells his television audience, "In short, I think we're all okay." Prosky, in the role of the Washington, D.C. news station's executive producer, says to the T.V. monitor, "Who cares what YOU think?"

Goodness. If that's not an archaic line in the light of today's opinionated newscasters, we cats don't know what is. And we cherish it to this day for that very reason.

If Robert Prosky were still with us, we'd rub against his ankles — for an outstanding, lifetime body of work. Good on you, sir.