On The Tinsel Front

Tag: World War II

  • SEASON 2 has begun!

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    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”

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    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 E1 “Uncertainty”

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    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

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    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

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    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:…

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

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    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

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    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,…

  • Union Station

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    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.…