Feds on Film: 'Charlie Wilson's War'

When Charlie Wilson’s War comes out Friday, federal employees should keep an eye out for one of their own. The movie features Tom Hanks as a hard-living Congressman who helped arm the Taliban to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, Julia Roberts going blonde to play the Texas socialite who introduced him to the cause, and Philip Seymour Hoffman sporting a truly dreadful moustache as a CIA official. But the film also includes the character of Mike Vickers, who helped ship weapons to Afghanistan as a young CIA operative. And he's still working in government as assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, according to the Associated Press, after stints in the private sector and think tank worlds.

Vickers says his wife "told me that if there were any sex scenes in the movie with a character named Mike Vickers, I'd be dead meat." --Alyssa Rosenberg

Hat tip: FedSmith.