I have also now read the Hampton Tales of Hollywood script, thank you selenak! It's very funny and very heartbreaking, and then I had to go back and watch all the Heinrich Mann bits on Youtube again. I'm going to have to try to find this so I can watch it all the way through -- I have some leads.
I'll try to write it up for DW soon, but in the meantime, I had a question. The part about Nelly Mann, how when she committed suicide Heinrich Mann took her to three different hospitals because the first two wouldn't take them and the third pronounced her dead -- did it really happen like that? (It doesn't, indeed, seem like the sort of thing Hampton would make up.) I missed just how awful it was when I was watching, I think I got distracted by the visuals a bit somehow, but reading the stark words meant there was no distraction from exactly how terrible it was. (I suppose also, in the Youtube video excerpt, Horvath's monologue about Heinrich and Thomas gets cut off.)
Tales of Hollywood - Heinrich Mann
I'll try to write it up for DW soon, but in the meantime, I had a question. The part about Nelly Mann, how when she committed suicide Heinrich Mann took her to three different hospitals because the first two wouldn't take them and the third pronounced her dead -- did it really happen like that? (It doesn't, indeed, seem like the sort of thing Hampton would make up.) I missed just how awful it was when I was watching, I think I got distracted by the visuals a bit somehow, but reading the stark words meant there was no distraction from exactly how terrible it was. (I suppose also, in the Youtube video excerpt, Horvath's monologue about Heinrich and Thomas gets cut off.)