Interesting item; shows Turner inherited the money and was just a fun
loving paranoid taxidermist, who probably was idea for Bates Motel
maybe?
Grew green green grass in his room? So he is a pot head too and my pot
is doing well I hope. That stuff comes in little roud seeds, did you
know that.
So interesting item on world leader, Ted Turner, now boy would I love to
know from whence some of this money came? HE IS SOMEONE's front man -
a place to launder money.
But someday they will bring him in on a stretcher, his hair long, his
nails long, and maybe he will have been on ice for a long time like
Howard Hughes? Another front man?
6 Mormons brought in that body and if I were Turner, well if he gets
religion ......well that is his problem.
Saba
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Ted Turner Media Mogul and Philanthropist
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III has always done things his own way. The
brash billionaire, champion yachtsman and founder of Cable News Network
and Turner Network Television set an independent course early in his
career, betting big on himself and taking daring gambles that have not
always succeeded. Known as "The Mouth of the South" and "Captain
Outrageous" for his notorious volubility and singular opinions, Turner
built a communications empire from his father's over-stretched billboard
business and is now creatively engaged in giving away the fortune he
earned from it. "Few Americans," wrote Newsweek, "have cut such a swath
through life."
"That list [Forbes magazine's list of the wealthiest Americans] is
destroying our country! These new super-rich won't loosen up their wads
because they're afraid they'll reduce their net worth and go down on the
list. That's their Super Bowl."
Ted Turner
���� Turner demonstrated his individuality early on. At the
military-oriented McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., "Terrible Ted"
is remembered for his odd habits, which included practicing amateur
taxidermy and growing lawn grass in his room. Brown University asked him
to leave after he was caught with a woman in his private quarters. He
won the America's Cup in 1977 with his yacht Courageous--and then showed
up drunk to collect the prize. He has worn a Confederate officer's
uniform, complete with sword, to corporate negotiations; managed the
Atlanta Braves (which he owns, along with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks) from
the dugout during a particularly bad season; and challenged his
arch-enemy, fellow media mogul Rupert Murdoch, to a televised boxing
match in Las Vegas.
"The man who looks like Clark Gable and sounds like Huey Long has been
an unpredictable joker in the cable industry--and in the American
psyche. He built a communications empire by taking enormous risks,
always flouting the conventional wisdom."
Gwenda Blair, writing in Business Monthly
���� It hasn't all been fun and games for Turner, however. He
has been treated for depression, and he was just 24 when his father Ed,
despondent over financial difficulties, fatally shot himself at his
South Carolina plantation. Taking the helm of the family business upon
his father's death, Turner expanded into television, purchasing an
Atlanta UHF station in 1970.
����Just a decade later, he used the profits from that
station�by now the flagship of his nationwide Turner Broadcasting
System--to launch CNN. Despite widespread predictions of disaster, the
24-hour all-news cable channel soon proved its worth with
minute-by-minute coverage of such events as the space shuttle Challenger
disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
����These Turner successes, however, were interspersed with some
notable failures: an ill-conceived hostile takeover bid for the CBS
network and a vast overpayment of $1.6 billion for the MGM film library.
After each setback, Turner restrategized and recreated himself.
����Little wonder that many see him as a modern-day Rhett
Butler, hero of the quintessential Southern melodrama Gone With the
Wind.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Turner began focusing on his personal brand
of philanthropy.
����His much-maligned Goodwill Games, first held in Moscow in
1986, were both a publicity stunt for Turner Broadcasting and a
genuinely-intended contribution to world peace.
����The Turner Foundation, founded in 1990, gives millions to
environmental causes, and in 1994, Turner himself gave $200 million to
charity.
����His promised gift of $1 billion to a new foundation to
support the United Nations, announced in September, 1997, may be the
largest single donation by a private individual in history. (In
comparison, all charitable giving by Americans in 1996 was approximately
$120 billion.)
����"All the money is in the hands of these few rich people and
none of them give any money away," Turner told The New York Times in
1996. "It's dangerous for them and the country. We may have another
French Revolution and there'll be another Madame Defarge knitting and
watching them come in little oxcarts down to the town square and BOOM!
Off with their heads!"
Turner has been married three times--his current wife is actress Jane
Fonda, whom he married in 1991--and he has five children.
************* [my note - wonder who his keeper is?
saba]����Although Turner never earned a university degree, he is
widely read, particularly in history and the Bible. He and Fonda have
several residences, including a several-thousand acre spread in Montana,
where they raise bison and fly-fish for trout. �
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Birthdate
November 19, 1938
Birthplace
Cincinnati, Ohio
Education
Brown Univ., Providence, R.I.
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