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PEOPLE, Page 91Back Talk Of the Town
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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."