Where Ted and Jane RoamJust when you...

Where Ted and Jane Roam

Just when you thought Cable News Network founder Ted Turner had all the honors he could handle, along comes yet another one.

Turner can already lay claim to being Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1991. Next up is “Ted Turner Day” in Atlanta this Wednesday.

Now add one more: “noted bison producer.”

That’s how Turner is billed in a brochure for the upcoming International Bison Conference, scheduled for late July in La Crosse, Wis.

Turner, who raises buffalo on his Montana ranch, is scheduled to speak at a conference banquet. Turner’s wife, Jane Fonda, is a luncheon speaker, addressing the topic of “Health Benefits of Eating Buffalo Meat.” (She’s described in the brochure as a “celebrity and health fitness expert.”)

The rest of the conference is a little less flashy. It covers such topics as “bison herd health,” “public herd genetics” and “free-ranging bison.”

Do You Still Know Me?

Look for former American Express Chairman James D. Robinson III to surface again next month (albeit in the form of character actor Fred Dalton Thompson).

Robinson, whose tenure at American Express was plagued by controversy and a major smear campaign scandal, quit under pressure late last month when putsch came to shove with the company’s big investors.

Now Robinson is about to be portrayed as a key figure in the film version of the bestseller “Barbarians at the Gate,” about the takeover of RJR Nabisco. The picture is scheduled to air March 20 on Home Box Office.

As for Thompson, the former lawyer-turned-actor knows something about controversies and scandals. Before launching his acting career, Thompson served as minority counsel in the Senate Watergate Committee hearings back in 1973 and 1974.

Not So Super Statistics

NBC, which hasn’t had much to brag about lately, was boasting last week that its Super Bowl statistics show that 133.4 million people nationwide watched Dallas trounce Buffalo in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl.

More interesting statistics on the Super Bowl come from Creative Marketing Consultants, a market research firm in Southfield, Mich.

Among the findings:

- 8% of the viewers fell asleep while watching the game.

- 28% admitted to betting on the game.

- 11% of viewers failed to identify Michael Jackson as the halftime show star.

Briefly . . .

Bet it won’t be Tokyo again: Executives with Sony’s TriStar Pictures say no decision has been made on which city will be destroyed in its “Godzilla” remake. . . . An Orange County dry cleaners is offering to clean for free one suit and three shirts for people who can prove they are unemployed. . . . Almost as much as buying a ticket from a scalper: Superior Galleries in Beverly Hills later this month will auction off a set of programs from the first 24 Super Bowls, estimated to be worth $2,500 to $3,500.