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Entertainment world pays tribute to celebrated spy novelist John le Carré The author of 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold', 'The Night Manager' and 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' passed away over the weekend John Le Carré poses on December 12, 2001 in Courmayeur,Italy. (Picture: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images) Figures from the worlds of film, television and literature are paying tribute to John le Carré, who has died at the age of 89. The author of The Night Manager and Spy passed away on Saturday (December 12) following a short illness. “It is with great sadness that we must con...

The Little Drummer Girl. "Not this beautiful man too. Just heard the news of the legend John le Carré’s passing and my chest is heavy," Pugh wrote on Instagram, alongside a photo of the two. "I was lucky enough to meet this man, drink with this man AND work with this man! I still pinch myself about our friendship to this day." Pugh recounted the first time they met, in the last few days of filming the show, and how she was "so nervous" to meet Le Carré. "I remember sitting down next to him at dinner and after a while of back and forth, realising that we were both trying to figure each oth...

John le Carré knew England’s secrets Tom McTague © Terry Fincher / Express / Getty Images Writing about John le Carré is intimidating. Writing an appreciation after he has died feels doubly so. In some ways, this fear says much about the England that le Carré was so masterful at capturing: the class consciousness and fear of straying beyond your place. Le Carré inhabited an England beyond my horizons, not just the cloak-and-dagger one, but the one that exists at Eton and at Oxford and in many parts of London, lands that remain foreign to most of us. To write about him,...

John le Carré, the prolific espionage author and former MI5 spy, died Saturday Dec. 12 at the age of 89. His bibliography of nearly 60 years long outlived its major subject — the Cold War — and expanded to explore geopolitical conflicts that have yet to be resolved. In 1983, he turned his attention to Israel. In “The Little Drummer Girl,” le Carré (his given name was David Cornwall) imagined an Israeli spy grooming a young Brit to infiltrate a Palestinian cell. The book and its film and miniseries adaptations could be read as appealing to the United Kingdom’s own tortuous history ...

Duckworth. we're going to have coverage of that right here on msnbc. a story we've been following closely. stay with us for that. but first, on rfd today, it turns out a contact sport that centers on bone-shattering bodily collisions may in fact not be completely safe. you know that, i know that. but according to a new lawsuit against the nfl, the players didn't always know that. that's because team doctors allegedly hid broken bones and other injuries and pumped injured players full of painkillers. those are some of the allegations against the nfl in a new lawsuit led by eight retired playe...