In Memoriam • Page 247

The legend is that Orson Welles asked that Ted Turner not touch his films with his crayons.

 

I was always fascinated with Ted Turner's weird ass politics for an American billionaire. He was a super pro-China Dengist market socialist. Dude was pro-one child policy lol

 

based based based

 

Was unfamiliar with Ted’s game

 

Turner was also one of the big drivers behind the successful effort to bring back the American Bison from near extinction.

 

damn, he was based for a billionaire

 

Apparently he was originally a Republican when he was building his business, but he turned leftwards in the early 80's after meeting Castro in Cuba and becoming friends with Jimmy Carter. His environmentalism was influenced by his friendship with Jacques Cousteau. His marriage to Jane Fonda pushed him even more left from what his son said. He described himself as "A Socialist at heart".

 

we lost a real one

 

Are you just periodically reading snippets of his Wikipedia at a time at us

 

Nah googling facts and sharing what I am learning as I go. (besides that Murdoch post).

Sharing knowledge is an acceptable way to post Pat.

 

I don’t wish to learn

 

In Memoriam of Pat's intellectual curiosity

 

Jones is cooking I’m afraid

 

Damn Ted was the fuckin’ man. R.I.P.

 

I also give him immense credit for not doubling down when the whole world came at him with pitchforks and torches for colorizing classic movies and creating TCM as a mea culpa.

 

Fun fact, the character Daniel Clamp from Gremlins 2 was partially based on Turner (the other part based on our president)

 

No way. Fuck I love Gremlins 2.

 

I read the series a couple years ago. I assumed they’d be like the movie and boy was I wrong. Not in a bad way though. RIP

 

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