ayo lets talk about my mans ted turner

he married the whore from klute!! that's all I can think about, klute!!!

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Ted Turner has called observers of Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks."[9] He referred to Christianity as "a religion for losers"[9] and dubbed abortion opponents "bozos."[9]

"bozos" is really an underutilized word these days

big ups for tcm

thumbs down for colorizing classix

thumbs up for making fun of jesus freaks.

tbs was the shit when i was a lil kid, esp since we didnt have cable. many a summer day was spent watchin BLOODSPORT on dat shit

ps. http://youtube.com/watch?v=k2zMa3unSN8

bozo, the next douche bag?

sagan turner overdrive

yeah lets face it carl sagan was a dick

yeah, weirdly enough i think the colorizing thing probably came from the same love of old movies in a 'god i love casablanca - wouldn't it be great if it was IN COLOR?'. tcm's probably the only thing of his that hasn't gotten noticeably worse/duller (CNN, the braves) in time-warner's hands.

yeah, i mean tbs always seemed to bear someone's fingerprints - andy griffith every afternoon, bond-eastwood-bloodsport-beastmaster in heavy rotation, the hawks.

plus yknow he helped bring the cold war to an end w/ the goodwill games.

TBS was how we got to see Starcade on sunday mornings when we didn't have to go to church.

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lol... i can't believe i almost forgot about this.

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Rumors will soon be swirling around the department, so I want to tell the full and nuanced story to the five of you among the graduate students and ask that you clarify the issues for any of your fellow grad students who ask. This sort of thing can get wildly distorted pretty quickly. You can feel free to use any part or all of this email to do so. I really appreciate your help.

Put down your cup of coffee or you might spill it.

Elizabeth is leaving me for Ted Turner.

She and I will remain the best of friends. She also knows about, endorses, and even encourages that I tell this much detail of the story:
She has spoken openly in her work and in her public life of the fact that she was molested by her grandfather from an early age, a molestation that was known and tacitly condoned by her radically Evangelical Christian parents. She then went into a decade-long abusive marriage. I met her when she was in a terminally desperate state from this lifetime of abuse, and we married and we truly loved each other.

I was able to help her a great deal. She says I saved her life. But de facto therapy as the initial foundation of a marriage eventually sucks the life out of a relationship. And it is very common for a woman to be drawn to men who remind them of their childhood abusers. Ted is such a man, though fortunately, he is far from being abusive. From all that I can tell, he is kind to her, loyal, considerate, and devoted to his family, and perhaps, therefore, he can redeem some things for her.

Further, Elizabeth has never been able to step out of the shadow of the Pulitzer. As you know-and she knows-I have been an avid admirer and supporter of her work. Everyone has heard me proclaim my sincere high regard for her as an artist. I often did this publicly. But she has published two brilliant novels since she's been with me and neither has gotten anywhere near the recognition that they richly deserve. That made it harder and harder for her to live with the ongoing praise and opportunity that flows to a Pulitzer winner. Not because of jealousy. She has always been very happy for me. But the multitude of small reflections of regard that came my way inevitably threw a spotlight on the absence of those expressions of regard for her. She felt as if she was failing as a writer.

Then, in March, she nearly died from an intestinal blockage in Argentina while on a trip with Ted. The trauma of that led her further to profoundly question her own identity. It became clear to her that the only way she can truly find herself is by making this change in her life.

She will not be Ted's only girlfriend. Ted is permanently and avowedly non-monogamous. But though he has several girlfriends, it is a very small number, and he does not take them up lightly and he gives them his absolute support when he does. And Elizabeth's leaving me is as much about the three weeks a month she is alone as it is about the week a month she is with Ted. She will find her own space and her own light in which to create the great works of art she is destined to create.

I will keep my house. I will keep my dogs and cats. I will keep virtually everything. She is being characteristically generous about that. But I will lose Elizabeth. And that is very sad. But the loss has been happening through many years of our shared struggle to make her whole. In that, I've done all I can do, as has she. I wish her the best. I ask you not to think ill of her in any way.

Elizabeth and I will now conduct ourselves as if this is public knowledge. So as I suggested at the outset, you need not keep this to yourself, if the occasion arises to speak of it to someone. This is best anyway, since I am not up to the task of telling this story over and over.
I have a high regard and affection for the students in our program. I hope this will help them sort out this rather intense story in an appropriate way.
Best,
Bob Butler

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Nobody tells Ted Turner to shush, and that goes double for his publicist. While being interviewed by Wil Hylton for GQ's 50th anniversary issue, the mouthy media billionaire had the following choice words for his flack after being reminded of his time constraints:

PUBLICIST: We have eight minutes left.

TURNER: ALL RIGHT! SHUT UP!

PUBLICIST: So move on to other topics.

TURNER: I DON'T NEED YOU FOR THAT! YOU'RE JUST AN OLD PUSSY! YOU'RE JUST AN OLD PUSSY! YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE MOTHER HEN. [in falsetto] "WE'VE GOTTA DO THIS! WE'VE GOTTA DO THAT!" [back to regular voice] THIS IS IMPORTANT! THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT!

Clearly not one to be muzzled, Turner also flouted his publicist's request not to be asked about anything "negative" -- i.e. Bush, the Iraq war ("This is Rupert's war") -- and extended the interview three times to sound off on a number of different issues, including:

Iran:

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years! They believe if they die in warfare, they get forty virgins in heaven. The Christians don't get that! We have more incentive to live, because we don't know what we're getting, you know? Our idea of heaven is lots of hymns, and theirs is lots of sex! The risk-reward thing is skewed the wrong way.

His wealth:

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars. You know, you don't have to have twenty billion. You can squeeze by with a couple billion.

And of course, animals:

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. I don't like the idea of losing pandas or crocodiles or alligators. I just...you know, I think they're cool. I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

ted otm

Do Donald Trump got Harem of beauties?

I am liking this man more every minute

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The risk-reward thing is skewed the wrong way.

oh man there is a ted's montana grill down the street from my office. I'm oughta take a girl on a date there, buy her a steak.

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the man owns six states AND atlanta

I would let this rich man idle all day

i met this dude.... he was real quiet!

flying d ranch is the most beautiful place in the world, holy shit