White: "I'm thrilled about the prospect of helping to build this new organization and grateful for the board's vote of confidence."

White: "I'm thrilled about the prospect of helping to build this new organization and grateful for the board's vote of confidence."

As the brutal pope in the Showtime drama, the actor enjoys the play of contradictions that he says mirrors the real world.

Jeremy Irons stars as the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, in Showtime's period drama"The Borgias," now in its second season.

Stormy lovers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn are played by Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the film directed by Phil Kaufman.

Most writers can only daydream about meeting — in the flesh — the characters they've imagined. But for Ernest Hemingway, one afternoon in Key West, Fla., it came close to actually happening. One day when the writer was in his mid-30s, hanging out at a local fisherman's bar, he spotted a woman uncannily similar to the strong-willed, sexually liberated heartbreaker from his first novel.