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- PEOPLE, Page 91Back Talk Of the Town
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- Is Tina Brown just a little too wild about husband Harry
- Evans? JOHN LE CARRE would probably respond yes. The perky New
- Yorker top dog and the spy novelist are waging a testy
- transatlantic fax tussle over whether or not the newly crowned
- editor has used her influential post to settle a score for her
- loved one. At the heart of the fiery debate is a Talk of the
- Town item concerning a British biography of mass-media lord
- Rupert Murdoch. Suffice it to say that the New Yorker piece
- takes an unfavorable position toward the book and its author,
- William Shawcross. Le Carre, a friend of Shawcross's, is arguing
- that Brown shame lessly ran the sharp-tongued story to retaliate
- for the book's none too kind portrayal of onetime Murdoch
- employee Harry Evans. Le Carre called the piece a self-serving
- travesty. Brown rebutted by branding Le Carre a sexist. And the
- vitriol went on and on. A highlight from J.L.C. to T.B.: "Within
- weeks of taking over the New Yorker, you have sent up a signal
- to say that you will import English standards of malice. New
- York doesn't need them."
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