Ha, yes, the titlte is a bit tricky in light of the thousand and one gossip stories. Incidentally, it’s a pun on Ödön von Hortvath’s “Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald” which tells me Hampton must actually speak German, otherwise the Vienna Wood/Hollywood thing wouldn’t have occured to him.

I saw Geschichten aus Hollywood first staged in Munich! And then the film version on tv. Here’s Hampton, talking about his play:

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/10/christopher-hampton-revisits-tales-from-hollywood.html