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

This film, directed by Jamie Babbit, tackled a serious subject with campy comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2017

And little wonder: The film’s director, Jamie Babbit, has worked with Greer on her TV show Married and directed Lyonne in 1999 breakout But I’m a Cheerleader, and obtains from both actresses complexity and nuance.

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

A plaster cast from this model is used as a pattern for a casting in fine iron, which can be executed by Babbit at Boston, as well as at the celebrated foundries at Berlin.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand