Neil Simon's not-so-simple plays reveal clues to the author's life. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | March 2, 1994| | Copyright 
    The writer's life is a lonely one, or so the story goes: a solitary figure seated at a desk or computer screen, plotting and imagining, waiting for the whisper of the Muses. 
    Unless the writer is Neil Simon _ or his alter ego, Jake _ in which case, writing is a neurotic laugh riot, with characters taking on form and flesh to comfort their creator in a way no real woman could. Or would. 
    The play is ``Jake's Women.'' It is entertainment, to be sure. But more than that, it's one of the latest installments in an ongoing saga: Neil's World As He Sees It. 
    We've seen it, ...

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