He loved movies so much that he bought the entire catalogue of movies from MGM Studios and pre-1948 Warner Brothers so he could air them and preserve them.

To sum up a life lived as loudly and as large as Ted Turner’s is an impossible task. He was a pioneer in so many ways, an entertainer at heart, an ecologist, and the last of the great showmen. When I worked at Turner during the TCM/FilmStruck days,

Ted Turner was a “visionary” who reshaped the media landscape, some of the moguls who worked with, competed against and followed him are saying in tribute to the CNN and Turner Networks founder.

Ted Turner, who was the founder of several broadcast companies including Turner Classic Movies (TCM), has died at age 87.

Ruck, 69, appeared in the film as Ferris Bueller’s best friend, Cameron Frye, while Stein, 81, played the monotone economics teacher in John Hughes ' staple. The two spoke briefly about the film at the event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic school-skip-day story.

Some fifteen years ago, when I was but a freshly minted college graduate, I interned at Turner Classic Movies in Atlanta. It was the dream for an avid Old Hollywood fan. Even at 21, I could throw down facts about Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart like ...