The Warner Bros. technology, named Vitaphone, was publicly introduced on August 6, 1926, with the premiere of the nearly three-hour-long Don Juan ; the first feature-length movie to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout, its soundtrack contained a musical score and sound effects, but no recorded dialogue — in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film.

In a 2002 retrospective, Roger Ebert, who " saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters ", said that back then he had publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from " a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask ' Why was this film ever made?

These controversies soon faded into the background while Jack Warner challenged the validity of the production code by publicly requiring theaters showing the film to post an " Adults only " label and restrict tickets sales accordingly.

The following month, however, CBS canceled the season's four remaining episodes after Sheen publicly made derogatory comments about the series ' creator, Chuck Lorre, and Warner Bros. banned Sheen from entering its production lot.

Time Warner Cable was allowed to distribute approximately $ 6 billion in shares to Adelphia stakeholders and succeed Adelphia as a publicly traded corporation.

Yet Byrd publicly supported then Governor Mark Warner in 2004 when Warner sought to raise taxes and faced conservative opposition

Jack Warner eventually joined McGinnity in publicly threatening to quit.

In 2004, Warner Music Group ( WMG ) became an independently owned, publicly traded company.

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

A rebel force of 2, 000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by men led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann.

An ardent Republican, Jack Warner nevertheless supported Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early 1930s.

Warner Robins supported approximately 6, 500 Army aircraft in this area with depot maintenance and supply.

Governor Rosselló supported the immediate exit of the Navy, appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee pressing the Senators, among them John Warner and James Inhofe, to immediately take action so that the Navy could withdraw its troops from the island.

It is supported by the United Nations, the United States State Department, and many other commercial entities such as Warner Brothers and Palm, Inc.

Wright v. Warner Books was dismissed by the district court, and this judgement was supported by the appeals court.

Despite his conservative viewpoint and longtime affiliation with the Republican Party, Warner was also a close friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported him during the early 1930s.

If the corporate President is not the COO ( such as Richard Parsons of Time Warner from 1995 – 2001 ), then many division heads report directly to the CEO themselves, with the President taking on special assignments from the CEO.

* Kendall, Richard Monet by Himself, ( Macdonald & Co 1989, updated Time Warner Books 2004 ), ISBN 0-316-72801-2

However, on the next play, linebacker Mike Vrabel and defensive lineman Richard Seymour sacked Warner for a 9-yard loss.

At a board meeting in fall 2001, Turner's outburst against AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin eventually led to the latter's announced resignation effective in early 2002, being replaced by Richard Parsons.

Similarly, as producer of the film adaptation of Camelot, Warner was unable to persuade director Joshua Logan to cast Richard Burton and Julie Andrews in the leading roles.

Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U. S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of two songs that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War.

A co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. ( this was the first film to be a joint venture from two major Hollywood studios ), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.

* The archaeology of early Irish kingship, Richard B. Warner, in Power and Politics in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, pp. 47 – 68, ed.

* The Wars of the Roses, adaptation of the Henry VI and Richard III plays, directed by Sir Peter Hall 1963-64 with Ian Holm, Peggy Ashcroft and David Warner

Warner has also played " ambiguous nice guys " such as vampire bat exterminator Philip Payne in 1979's Nightwing ; and Dr. Richard Madden in 1994's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead.

The Ulster historian Richard Warner has theorised that the Midlands leader Túathal Techtmar, usually thought mythical, was in fact historical and went to Britain to get Roman support for his military campaigns ( along with other later exiles ).

In 1965, BBC 1 broadcast all three plays from John Barton and Peter Hall's The Wars of the Roses trilogy ( Henry VI, The Rise of Edward IV and Richard III ) with David Warner as Henry and Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret.

In 1965, BBC 1 broadcast all three plays from John Barton and Peter Hall's The Wars of the Roses trilogy ( Henry VI, The Rise of Edward IV and Richard III ) with David Warner as Henry and Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret.

The production starred David Warner as Henry, Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret, Roy Dotrice as Edward and Ian Holm as Richard.

In 1965, BBC 1 broadcast all three plays from John Barton and Peter Hall's The Wars of the Roses trilogy ( Henry VI, The Rise of Edward IV and Richard III ) with David Warner as Henry and Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret.

He has been actively seeking to influence the direction of Time Warner, often in conflict with its former chief executive, Richard Parsons.

One of McGough's more unusual compositions was created in 1981, when he co-wrote an " electronic poem " called Now Press Return with the programmer Richard Warner for inclusion with the Welcome Tape of the BBC Micro home computer.

With the help of his associate Walsingham ( Richard Warner ), Cecil finds evidence of Mary's involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth known as the Babington Plot.

* Richard Warner as Elizabeth's spy master Francis Walsingham

Shaw played the lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995.

After they took it to Warner Bros. in early 1986, studio production executives offered it to director Richard Donner, who also loved it.

Featuring Ian Holm as Richard III, David Warner as Henry VI, Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret, Donald Sinden as York, Roy Dotrice as Edward and Jack Cade, Janet Suzman as Joan and Lady Anne and William Squire as Buckingham and Suffolk.

Warner was among ten GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during Clinton's impeachment ( the others were Richard Shelby of Alabama, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Slade Gorton of Washington and Fred Thompson of Tennessee ).

Nor was he the only one ; in 1795 Richard Warner wrote a potboiler entitled Netley Abbey, a Gothic Story in two volumes, featuring skullduggery at the abbey during the middle ages.

" I don't think President Kennedy would object to my friendship with Dick Nixon ," Warner said later.

In February 1969, Warner was appointed Undersecretary of the Navy under the Nixon administration.