Nov. 9, 2008
Ted Turner Looks Back
Media Mogul Talks About His Life, Loves, Personal Struggles And Business
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Play CBS Video Video Feeling Alone On The Range Morley Safer speaks with Ted Turner about his financial losses after the merger of Time Warner with AOL, his feud with Rupert Murdoch, his relationship with women, and his relationship with his father.
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Video 1977: Ted Turner Walter Cronkite contributed this report on the America's Cup sailing race, in 1977, and met a very determined captain, Ted Turner.
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Video 2003: Ted Turner Ted Turner spoke to Mike Wallace, in 2003, about his initiative to donate $1 billion to the United Nations.
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Ted Turner (CBS)
"I've heard him say his failure of his marriages," Jennie says.
He's been married three times, most famously to actress Jane Fonda, a union that lasted 10 years.
Turner says he and Fonda were happy together for a long time.
Asked what went wrong, Turner says, "It's hard to tell. It obviously was a combination of things."
Asked if he wished that the marriage had managed to survive, Turner tells Safer, "Well it didn't. I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on."
Moving on is Turner's mantra. It also put a hex on his marriage to Jane Fonda.
"It's impossible to really be with Ted the way he needs someone to be with him and have any kind of life of your own," Fonda says.
"He's perfectly aware of it. He said to me, 'I hate being alone,'" Safer says.
"He's aware that it makes it hard for the person who's, you know, trying to love him," Fonda says.
"But what's interesting is the moment he's in one place for a couple of days, he's got to move on to somewhere else," Safer remarks.
"Yeah, when you're chased by demons, you have to keep moving," Fonda says.
Though they've been divorced for eight years, they've been in some way inseparable. "You know, if Ted really needed me, I would be there in a blue minute," Fonda says.
"Yeah, I think he misses you a lot," Safer says.
"I think he does," Fonda says, with tears welling up. "I'm not getting emotional because I wish I was still living with him. But, he touches me deeply, deeply. The contradictions that make up Ted Turner."
"They had so much in common. They were like two peas in a pod. You know, they both had their parents commit suicide. They were both overachievers, perfectionists. And I think that they were both at the top of their game when they were together," Turner's daughter Laura says.
Asked if he thinks there's any chance of a reconciliation, Teddy Turner says, "I don't think there'd be any family argument with Jane coming back home. But, you know, but it's not really our choice."
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See all 113 CommentsHe owns more land than anyone else, but guess what...he''ll donate it back to "we, the people" when he''s gone, so what''s to hate there?!?
Okay, so Jane Fonda made some BAAAD choices way back when, but isn''t that exactly what we Americans have always fought for...freedom of expression?? Of course, she was dead-wrong, but she was, I''m convinced, working from a peace-maker''s point of view, but just went about it badly. We''re now in an even worse "bad war," but few seem to protest, except recently at the ballot box. At least now we "hail" returning troops, so perhaps actions like JF''s taught us all a good lesson!
Money isn''t everything. It helps smooth out some of the bumps but it isn''t everything.
well, boo friggin'' hoo! lonesome my arse!
Maybe The hero of Chappaquiddick, your bosom buddy, can come out and you two can go for a drive some evening?
guns don''t kill people, oldsmobiles kill people....
Are you still thinking that people like you and the above mentioned ****** buddy of yours since you are both so wealthy?....did either of you, not to mention ex-wifey, ever have an honest job, like the people you all hosed?Suffer, ya ***!
Just another booty call.
"...he touches me deeply, deeply."
Oh yeah: the Nielsens can count me in on this one.
With lines like "Come out here and spend the night by yourself some time" and "I would be there (for Ted) in a blue minute," this sounds like a tearjerker not to be missed! (Please...)
Maybe but the same goes for Bush who put us in an unjust war by lying over WMD''s.
Please stop with the Jesus stuff. It''s BS, cultish and if there was a Jesus there is probably some type of copyright infringement.
Much of the farm subsidy payout goes to individuals
and companies that clearly do not need taxpayer help. A
Washington D.C. think tank has posted individual farm
subsidy recipients on its web page at to
illustrate the unfairness of farm welfare for the well-to-do.
Farm subsidy recipients include Fortune 500 companies,
members of Congress, and millionaires such as Ted Turner
One of the reasons our Government is broke.
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
-Jesus Christ
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