Jane Fonda

There have been a lot of mergers that were, including just towards the end of my marriage to Ted Turner, there was so much pressure on him to merge with AOL and Time Warner and

And then all those other mergers that happened after that.

You know, it's interesting because I said to Ted, why?

You know, you have such a successful business.

He said, because I'm paraphrasing.

He said, if I don't become part of a bigger institution, I'm going to get eaten.

You know, this is capitalism.

You have to keep getting bigger.

And it turned out very badly for Zasloff and Warner Brothers.

So, you know, I am not a business person.

Yeah.

There were a lot of people saying to do, you know, John Malone and a lot of really smart people.

Michael Milken were telling him to do this.

And Ted didn't feel good about it.

It was the wrong deal.

Yeah.

Because Ted had the correct instincts.

I can't pretend to have answers to that.

I don't know.

I've asked a lot of people in the entertainment, business people in the entertainment industry, if Warner Brothers Studio, can it really stand on its own?