On The Tinsel Front

Author: Christopher Bomba

  • SEASON 2 has begun!

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    It’s taken only two years, but Season 2 is finally here! (Thanks for your patience!) Episodes #1 and #2 are now available wherever you get your podcasts. Go to the podcast’s page on Podlink for links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms. You can also listen on the Tinsel Front website Episodes page, The…

  • S2 E3 “Shock”

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Season 2, Episode 3:  Ollie desperately seeks information, and is interviewed by police… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING: with… Produced under the auspices of a SAG/AFTRA Micro-Budget Podcast Agreement. MUSIC: Martin Landström, Wicked Man.  Courtesy of Epidemic Sound SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly. While On The Tinsel Front purports to tell a…

  • S2 E2 “New Job”

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Season 2, Episode 2: Ollie lands a transfer to the U.S. Army 834th Signal Corps unit; and is stunned by an article in the Los Angeles Times… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING: with… Produced under the auspices of a SAG/AFTRA Micro-Budget Podcast Agreement. MUSIC: Thanks to the U.S. Government for the soundtrack…

  • S2 E1 “Uncertainty”

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Season 2, Episode 1:  As the filming of “This Is The Army” comes to the close, Ollie wonders what he’s going to do next.  Elle, meanwhile, has gone missing… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING: with… Produced under the auspices of a SAG/AFTRA Micro-Budget Podcast Agreement. MUSIC: Sound Effects courtesy of Soundly. While…

  • Central Avenue

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    I couldn’t tell a story about Los Angeles in the 1940s without some mention of Central Avenue, the road that, running due south from downtown, was the cultural epicenter of the city’s black community and a musical mecca where jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Billy Holliday, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald performed. Sadly, this…

  • Season 2 debuts September 5, 2026

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    I am pleased to announce that Season 2 of ON THE TINSEL FRONT will launch on September 5, 2026, the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend! This new season has 7 episodes. Episodes #1 and #2 will be available at 12:01 AM on that Saturday. The remaining episodes will be released thereafter once every three days:…

  • AUDIO VERSE AWARDS

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in

    On The Tinsel Front has been nominated for the Audio Verse Awards… and you can help it win by voting! (Any podcast listener can vote! Deadline is December 21st.) Here’s how you do it: — Clink on this link: VOTING PAGE — Choose a ballot.  (The one with “Visuals” includes the podcasts’ cover arts and…

  • “That’s What The Best Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear”

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in , ,

    Ollie: “The guys arranged for me to come on set and watch them shoot their number — “That’s What The Best Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear.” It’s a song about soldiers trading in their smart civilian clothes for army khaki. Joe Louis is part of it, doing a workout on a speed bag…” This…

  • The Hollywood Canteen

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in , ,

    Ollie: “So the next night I headed off to the Canteen by myself… There was a long line of servicemen waiting to get in… it struck me just how young most of us were, and how, -eager and rambunctious, we weren’t much different from a bunch of high schoolers on a field trip, goofing off,…

  • Ted Geisel aka “Dr. Seuss”

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Ollie: “I saw a man I recognized… and never thought I’d see in Hollywood. It was the cartoonist who publishes under the name Dr. Seuss. And he was in uniform with captain bars!“ Ollie: “… I made sure I read every cartoon you did for PM. I admired the way you took a stand against…

  • “This Is The Army” – The Movie

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in , ,

    Reagan: “You are thus being temporarily attached to the company performing the Irving Berlin muscial revue “This Is The Army.” Its cross-country tour over, it’s in town for the for the production of the film version over at Warner Brothers, to which you will report immediately…” This morale-raising cinematic ode to the U.S. Armed Forces…

  • Recording “booth”

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in

    THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED! The makeshift booth – created in the closet beneath my staircase – where most of ON THE TINSEL FRONT was recorded. Harry Potter jokes were many. Thanks to the actors who braved it! A third of the show was recorded remotely, actors using their own recording setup while I listened…

  • Culver City #1

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Ollie: It’s in California in a town called Culver City, which is near Los Angeles… This is the first of what will be a number of posts about Culver City, a Southern California town with a rich history and the location for much of TINSEL FRONT’s first season. The city was founded in 1917 by…

  • The Sunset Limited

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Ollie: Am catching the train to L.A. tonight, well, actually, tomorrow morning. It leaves around three AM… The train Ollie would have taken from Louisiana to Los Angeles was the Southern Pacific’s SUNSET LIMITED. “The Sunset Limited is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 1,995-mile (3,211 km) route between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Los Angeles, California, with major stops in Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and Tucson. Introduced…

  • Union Station

    —

    by

    Christopher Bomba
    in ,

    Ollie: Dear Bet: A few hours ago we pulled into Union Station in Los Angeles. It’s a big, beautiful building — tall ceilings, impressive wood beams, beautiful Spanish tiles… L.A.’s famous train station — where a newly arrived Ollie takes note of a beautiful girl named Elle — was only three years old in 1942.…