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Milestones

DIED SENTENCED
Jalaluddin Haqqani, Reuters
founder of one of
Afghanistan’s most journalists
powerful militant in Myanmar
networks, after an
illness, the Afghan IN TODAY’S MYANMAR, THE
Taliban said Sept. 4.
price for uncovering a mas-
sacre is apparently seven
NAMED
David Katz, 24, as years. That was the sentence
the suspect in the handed down to two Reuters
shooting that killed reporters on Sept. 3, for their
two and wounded
10 at a Jackson- work covering the deaths of
ville, Fla., video-game 10 Rohingya Muslims over-
tournament on seen by state security forces.
Aug. 26. The gunman The sentencing of Wa
also killed himself.
Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for
breaching the country’s
ANNOUNCED
The decision not to official-secrets act came
run for a third term, as little surprise to observ-
by Chicago Mayor ers. Both men said they had
Rahm Emanuel, in a
surprise speech on been framed; away from
Sept. 4. the courtroom, the military
even admitted the massacre
CEDED in question had taken place.
Some 1 million But establishing the truth
sq. ft. in Hong Kong’s
West Kowloon rail wasn’t really the point. The
station to mainland verdict will have a chilling
Chinese authorities, Simon in Los Angeles during the filming of the 1978 movie effect on reporters in Myan-
during a secretive The Cheap Detective, for which he wrote the screenplay mar attempting to hold the
ceremony, so that state to account for its brutal
China can conduct DIED
Neil Simon less Muslim minority. That
immigration checks. campaign against the state-
REACHED Wit of the Great White Way it might also pile pressure on
The highest fatality Nobel laureate Aung San Suu
rate ever for By J.K. Simmons
migrants crossing Kyi to acknowledge her state’s
the Mediterranean IT REMAINS ONE OF THE TOP MEMORIES OF MY CAREER THAT complicity may be scant relief
to Europe—even at my audition for Laughter on the 23rd Floor, I elicited belly to the jailed reporters.
though fewer are laughs from Neil Simon himself. And when I got the phone Outside the courtroom,
BIRD: GET T Y IMAGES; SIMON: DAVID SMITH — AP/SHUT TERSTOCK; MYANMAR: ANN WANG — REUTERS
crossing than at the call from my agent that I was going to be in the original Broad- the reporters addressed the
crisis’ peak in 2015,
per U.N. data. way cast of a Neil Simon play—that’s still right up there too, media. “I have no fear,” Wa
25 years on. Lone said. “I have not done
RESCINDED Before then, I’d known “Doc,” who died on Aug. 26 at 91, only anything wrong.” Then,
An invitation for as a fan, so the idea that he would be around during rehearsals hands cuffed together, he
Donald Trump’s
former chief was intimidating. But I found him to be an almost paternal pres- was bundled away.
strategist Stephen ence. And there’s a reason his memoir is called Rewrites: he was —BILLY PERRIGO
Bannon to headline an absolute genius at using what he saw at rehearsals; it felt as if
the New Yorker he were writing for us. And many of the real people who inspired
Festival, after other the characters in Laughter, based on his time as a TV writer in
speakers threatened
to drop out. the 1950s, came to see us. It was pretty cool having Mel Brooks
or Carl Reiner come backstage and say how hilarious and mov-
PERFORMED ing it was! They had such a genuine affection for that time and
The first gig by for Doc himself.
comedian Louis C.K. He was the ideal combination of intelligent and accessible—
since multiple
women accused him and hilarious, obviously. He wrote characters who, even though
of sexual miscon- they’re sometimes very broad, are always, to me, believable. His
duct last year, at a work makes you laugh, but beneath the humor is humanity.
New York City club
Simmons is an actor who will be seen this fall in The Front Runner
on Aug. 26.
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