Tag: Frank Capra

  • The Two Rays

    Harryhausen and Bradbury, best friends SPOILER ALERT: While this post doesn’t give away any plot points, it’s best read after listening to Episode #6: “Reflections” HARRYHAUSEN: Ollie, this is my friend, Ray Bradbury… Ray’s a writer. OLLIE: Really? Of what? BRADBURY: Science Fiction, things like that. HARRYHAUSEN: Weird stuff. BRADBURY: Yeah, weird like everything in…

  • Private Snafu

    GEISEL: Remember when you told me that the best way to teach is to make students laugh? OLLIE: Yeah. GEISEL: Well, that’s what we’re trying to do with these, each one about this idiot screwing up in every way possible… In Episode #2: “New Job,” Ted Geisel shows Ollie the trailer for the Private Snafu,…

  • S2 E3 “Shock”

    Season 2, Episode 3:  “Shock” 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…

  • Ted Geisel aka “Dr. Seuss”

    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…