NEW YORK (AP) — There is always an asteroid, real or imagined, bearing down on Turner Classic Movies .
Fears that something might befall the commercial-less bastion of classic Hollywood...
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN founder Ted Turner still occasionally watches the network he started nearly four decades ago, although he thinks it's a little heavy on politics.
Turner said in an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" that airs this weekend that he'd prefer his old network had a more balanced agenda, "but that's just one man's opinion."
ATLANTA (AP) — Jane Fonda used her 80th birthday celebration to raise $1.3 million for her foundation.
The two-time Oscar-winner held the "Eight Decades of Jane" fundraiser at an upscale hotel Saturday night. The event recognized Fonda's life achievements along with her foundation, Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential, which she created in 1995.
The Atlanta-based nonprofit focuses on teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent health.
ST. PHILLIPS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Media magnate Ted Turner says he'll sell an island to South Carolina to help a popular, but eroding state park.
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84.
Jennifer Dorian, general manager of TCM, announced Osborne's death Monday. A publicist for the network said he passed away Monday in New York.
ATLANTA (AP) — Turner Field has aged well. It's got all the expected amenities of a modern big league ballpark, from luxury boxes to a mammoth video board to the restaurant that hovers above right field to concession stands selling all manner of food and drink.
Want a gourmet steak sandwich? Step right up. Craft beer? No problem. Hash browns from local favorite Waffle House? Make 'em scattered and smothered.
Of course, at 20 years old, it's not exactly a baseball relic.
NEW YORK (AP) — As a TV impresario and political puppet-master, Roger Ailes is unmatched in our time.
He didn't invent anything, as Ted Turner did with "superstations" and cable news. He didn't assemble a media empire, as did his now-former boss Rupert Murdoch.
Instead, with an uncanny instinct for matching messages with fiercely held desires, he has strip-mined the cultures of entertainment, news and politics that he began disrupting a half-century ago, and...