Babbit
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The scripts were “very sophisticated and brilliant, and we were on this new network that was teenybopper shows,” said Jamie Babbit, who directed 18 “Gilmore Girls” episodes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2020
“The producer I met with was like, ‘Hey, I decided to meet with you because Jennifer Garner keeps complaining that we’re not hiring any women,’” Babbit recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
That can manifest in a lot of problematic ways, including trying to pretend they know what they’re doing, or just being spineless creatures, as opposed to a Jamie Babbit, who has nothing but spine.
From Time ● Oct. 1, 2015
Novels like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit portrayed wealth and the self-made man in America, albeit in a critical fashion.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
My uncle, Augustus Babbit, who led a seafaring life and was lost at sea, took great interest in me; he offered me prizes for proficiency in my studies, especially music and writing.
From Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors by George Iles
