United By Pomp And Circumstance

They may be separated, but media titan Ted Turner and actress Jane Fonda were together at Emerson College graduation: Both received honorary degrees, and he gave the commencement speech.

Turner and Fonda, who married eight years ago and separated in January, shared the stage Monday, but sat about 10 chairs apart in the line of college officials and other visitors.

"Thank you so much for this great honor," Turner said. "And it's particularly meaningful to me because I was honored with my wife, Jane, today."

Fonda, a two-time Academy Award winner, said it was her first honorary degree.

"I think most colleges and universities were afraid that their money would disappear if they ever gave me one," she said in a joking reference to her controversial political activism during the Vietnam War.

"So it says to me a lot about Emerson College."

Emerson, founded in 1880, claims to be the only college in the nation whose undergraduate and graduate programs are devoted to communications and the performing arts.