Another Intelligence Imbroglio - for Hollywood

Hollywood has turned its attention once again to Washington's seamier side. A new movie about FBI mole Robert Hanssen will soon bring to life the stories of the agents who brought down a Soviet spy in their midst.

FBI agent Richard "Rich Garces" Garcia.(AP)

Filming on "Breach" began in Toronto last month and will move to Washington in February, with Oscar winner Chris Cooper as Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe as Eric O'Neill , the low-level bureau employee tapped to track the traitor. But at least one real-life agent will see a slightly blurred portrayal of himself: Richard Garci a , the supervisor tasked with distracting Hanssen while investigators closed in, will be portrayed as a composite called "Rich Garces."

The name change, and the fact the Latino agent is being played by a non-Latino actor, Gary Cole, is drawing flak from D.C.-based National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts.

"Here you have a character who historically is Latino, and then you go and recast it," said the group's chairman and co-founder Felix Sanchez . "It says that you're really not committed to using the ethnic representation that exists."

One Hispanic actor, Esai Morales , confirmed that he read for the Garcia part but was told producers wanted "a more conventional boss-looking guy." It's rare to find a heroic Latino role, he said: "He's one of the characters you want representing your people."

Filmmakers say they planned to cast a Hispanic actor but ran into scheduling complications. Director Billy Ray and executive producer Adam Merims (who worked together on the D.C. journalism psychodrama "Shattered Glass") originally tapped Ruben Santiago-Hudson , of Puerto Rican descent, to play Garcia. But at the last minute the actor dropped out when he realized filming for "Breach" would conflict with a prior commitment.

Gary Cole will play Garcia in "Breach."(ABC)

"Given it was two days away" from the start of filming, said Merims, "we couldn't re-audition the part." Producers called Cole, a favorite of studio execs best known as a smarmy boss in "Office Space" and the veep in "The West Wing."

"It was nothing nefarious," Merims said, adding that black actor Dennis Haysbert plays a composite of two white agents.

The real-life Garcia, who recently retired from the FBI to become a regional security adviser for Shell Oil, shrugged at the casting news: "Not much you can do about it." Months ago, he said, screenwriters asked him to eyeball the script.

"It was fine except for how they described me: 'a stocky individual,' " he joked. "Are you trying to say I'm fat?"

Spice in the Melting Pot

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Because there aren't enough gorgeous glamazons on these shores already, Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) have co-sponsored a very special bill for supermodels. Introduced last month, HR 4354 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a separate, nonimmigrant classification for fashion models -- in short, make it easier for beauties from Brazil, Russia, the Czech Republic and other far-flung locales to strut their skinny little butts on our runways. Weiner, a 41-year-old bachelor, says he's trying to end a shortage that makes American modeling agencies lose business internationally. What a guy! Bet those gals are soooooo grateful.

Love, Etc.

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Game Over: Redskin Chris Cooley and his wife, Angela, are splitsville. The popular H-back, who tied a Redskins record with three touchdowns in the first half of Sunday's win against the Dallas Cowboys, is married; his official online biography said so, when we checked last night. But a team spokesman took our question to the man himself, and called back to say the 23-year-old father of two is now describing himself as "single."