The director also helmed two films for Turner Network Television in 1996 and 1997, Andersonville and George Wallace, that were highly praised.

Nonetheless, modern historians agree that he also had many faults as king, including what historian Ralph Turner describes as " distasteful, even dangerous personality traits ", such as pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty.

She also lent her voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow, singing Henry Creamer and Turner Layton's jazz standard " After You've Gone.

He is TNT's lead NBA voice, calls NFL games for CBS, and also calls NCAA tournament action for CBS and Turner Sports.

Cable TV companies, like John Malone's Tele-Communications Inc., were also favorite clients, as were Ted Turner's maverick Turner Broadcasting, cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw, and casino entrepreneur Steve Wynn.

Titles included in this library are S. O. B., the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( WB also owns the 1946 MGM version through Turner ), The Sea Wolves, and Escape to Victory ( a. k. a. Victory ).

Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.

" He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R & B artists who employed this feel.

She has also performed backing vocals for Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Belinda Carlisle, and for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary celebrating Dylan's thirty years as a recording artist.

They proposed a kind of Neuroanthropology which would lay the foundations for a more complete scientific account of cultural similarity and variation by requiring an integration of cultural anthropology and neuroscience — a program that theorists such as Victor Turner also embraced.

James also played characters named Sid in appearances outside of the Carry On films, Sid Abbot in Bless This House on television and its spin-off film, as well as Sid Jones, Sid Turner, Sid Marks, Sid Stone, and Sid Gibson in addition to four characters called just ' Sid '.

Pro Bowl linebacker Keena Turner was also a major defensive weapon, recording 2 sacks and 4 interceptions for 51 yards.

Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes.

In 2008, Turner also received attention when he asserted on PBS's Charlie Rose television program that if steps are not taken to address global warming, within 30 to 40 years " most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

" Turner also said in the interview that he advocated drastically cutting the U. S. military budget and Americans having no more than two children.

Turner claims to have predicted the demise of newspapers 30 years ago and has called print journalism “ an obsolete way of distributing information .” Ted Turner also became more critical of media consolidation around 2004.

" Julia Turner from Slate Magazine also noted similarities between the events of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the current War on Terror.

Turner syndrome or Ullrich-Turner syndrome ( also known as " Gonadal dysgenesis "), 45, X, encompasses several conditions in human females, of which monosomy X ( absence of an entire sex chromosome, the Barr body ) is most common.

An increased risk of Turner Syndrome may also be indicated by abnormal triple or quadruple maternal serum screen.

Other congenital cardiovascular malformations, such as partial anomalous venous drainage and aortic valve stenosis or aortic regurgitation, are also more common in Turner syndrome than in the general population.

The prevalence of this abnormality also is low ( around 2. 9 %) in Turner syndrome.

Cardiovascular malformations in Turner syndrome are also very serious, not only because of their high prevalence in that particular population but mainly because of their high lethal potential and their great implication in the increased mortality found in patients with Turner syndrome.

Turner purchased the Omni International from developer Tom Cousins and moved CNN there.

After a failed attempt to acquire CBS, Turner purchased the film studio MGM / UA Entertainment Co. from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for $ 1. 5 billion.

In 1988, Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions which he renamed World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) which became the main competitor to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

On January 11, 2001, Time Warner was purchased by AOL to become AOL Time Warner, a merger which Turner initially supported.

In 1996, Turner's company, Turner Broadcasting System ( whose Turner Entertainment division oversaw the film library ), was purchased by Time Warner who also owned Warner Bros .. Today, Warner Home Video holds the video rights to the entire Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies animated output by virtue of Time Warner's ownership of Turner Entertainment — this is why their Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets include cartoons from both the pre-8 / 48 Turner-owned and post-7 / 48 Warner Bros. owned periods.

Starting in 1960, the cartoons were repackaged into several different TV programs that remained popular for several decades before being purchased by Turner Broadcasting Systems.

In early 2000, Mike Turner, founding member and guitarist of the Canadian band Our Lady Peace purchased the book intrigued by the concepts that it contained.

Then, in 1986, media mogul Ted Turner purchased MGM / UA.

Federal-Mogul, an American automotive supplier, purchased the assets of Turner & Newhall, and is itself in Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to asbestos liability.

Recognizing the large number of workers such a facility would employ, Bremer and his business partner and brother-in-law, Henry Hensel, purchased the undeveloped land near Point Turner at the inflated price of $ 200 per acre.

In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after its short-lived ownership of MGM / UA, and as a result CBS / Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM / UA Home Video.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ), named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and his Turner Broadcasting purchased the promotion, renaming it " World Championship Wrestling ".

Turner, and later Time-Warner, owned WCW until 2001 when it was purchased by its primary competitor, the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ), now known as WWE.

In March 2000, Turner Broadcasting System purchased the rights and now often airs the film on TBS.

In 1986, Lorimar merged with television syndication firm Telepictures, becoming Lorimar-Telepictures ; later that year, they purchased the MGM lot from Ted Turner.

SNC's satellite slot was then purchased by Ted Turner to launch Headline News into further additional homes.

Soane included many members of the Royal Academy as friends including J. M. W. Turner, who was professor of drawing at the Royal Academy, with whom he spent the Christmas after his wife's death as well as owning three works by the artist ; John Flaxman was an old friend, he was professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy and Soane also acquired several plastercasts of Flaxman's work for his museum ; Thomas Banks again Soane owned sculptures by him ; Thomas Lawrence who painted Soane's portrait ; despite falling out with his old master, George Dance the Younger, they were firm friends after his death Soane purchased Dance's drawings ; after the death of his other teacher Henry Holland, Soane tried to buy his drawings and papers, but found they had been destroyed, but did purchase some of his antique sculptures ; despite being rivals Soane got on with fellow architect John Nash, they often dined together.

During 1970, Ted Turner, then owner of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising company, purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling Ultra High Frequency station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group.

During May 2006, Turner Broadcasting, which already owned 50 % of Court TV, purchased the remaining half from Liberty Media.

In 1991, Turner Entertainment's parent Turner Broadcasting purchased Hanna-Barbera and its extensive animated library including The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Top Cat, and Quick Draw McGraw ( along with most of the Ruby-Spears library up to 1991 ).