Oprah quotes Angela Davis at Colorado graduation
Emilia Clarke bids farewell to ‘Game of Thrones’
Emilia Clarke’s watch has ended. Clarke, 32, took to Instagram to bid an emotional farewell to “Game of Thrones” and her fiery character Daenerys Targaryen ahead of Sunday’s 80-minute series finale. “Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me,” she captioned a group photo of the costumed cast, including Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) and Maisie Williams (Arya Stark).
“‘Game of Thrones’ has shaped me as a woman, as an actor and as a human being,” wrote Clarke, who had played the Mother of Dragons on the hit HBO show since 2011. “I just wish my darling dad was here now to see how far we’ve flown.”
Actress Scarlett Johansson, Colin Jost of ‘SNL’ are engaged
Wedding bells are in the future for actress Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost of “Saturday Night Live.”
Johansson’s publicist, Marcel Pariseau, tells The Associated Press that the couple are engaged after two years of dating. Pariseau says no date has been set for the nuptials.
Johansson, 34, was previously married to actor Ryan Reynolds and journalist Romain Dauriac, with whom she has a daughter named Rose, born in 2014. This is the first marriage for the 36-year-old Jost, who is the co-anchor of SNL’S Weekend Update.
The couple recently walked the red carpet together at the premiere of “Avengers: Endgame,” in which Johansson plays the character of Black Widow.
Small steps lead to big accomplishments, Oprah Winfrey told graduates at Colorado College on Sunday. The small liberal arts college in Colorado Springs awarded 590 undergraduate degrees. Winfrey quoted black activist Angela Davis, who said: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically change the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Winfrey says change doesn’t happen with big breakthroughs so much as day-to-day decisions.
The television personality and philanthropist once gave away a car to everybody in the audience on her show. She gave the graduates copies of her book, “The Path Made Clear.”
— Wire services