July 01, 2009
By: Roberta Lipp
Category: Lipp Sisters/Basket, Media-Web-News
We’ve decided to bring back Lipp Gloss as a once-monthly feature, just to round up highlights of the previous month.
And this June was very Juney.
August 16th was announced as the official Season Three premier date. Also on August 10th there will be a Season Two marathon.
In an article about the success of Mad Men, we learn that acclaimed writer Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon) is in the writer’s room for Season Three (Lipp Tip to Basketcase S. Tarzan).
The first S3 promo, showing only clips from S1 & S2, is out.
There was a bit of controversy over the removal of two minutes from the running time of Mad Men in the coming season. We hosted a little Basket Roots campaign.
Seems it all worked out, thank goodness!
Collection Basket–a roundup of recent BoK posts
The opening line of Vicky, the prostitute, to Roger, the client, is examined beyond what might have been considered humanly possible.
A wonderful essay on Don Draper as America herself, which inspired lively discussion.
And speaking of lively discussion, we had a really fun one about our favorite S2 scenes.
The subtler themes of Maidenform are explored.
Joan’s rape is compared, from a television/presentational/audience reaction angle, to that of Dr. Melfi on The Sopranos.
A look at the wives of Henry VIII and the women of Mad Men (and welcome back to Basketwriter Ms. Darkly!).
Betty’s accusation of Don and how she held her own.
A high recommendation for the documentary Jazz On a Summer’s Day and an analysis of how it seems to inform Mad Men.
Why did Don come back?
Deborah scares up (hah!) some Creepy Vintage Ads.
An assertion that Roger is somewhat full of shit (like that’s a stretch) in RitF.
Back In The Kitchen Where The Sausage Is Made (BoK behind the scenes or just, Basketbusiness)
Okay, we need to have a talk. It seems as Season Three approaches more and more folks are interested in sharing spoilers. We don’t do that here. We’ve had a lot of spoilery comments, and we’ve had to delete and even scold. More than once. Cut it out. Thanks!
