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

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

Look," he said, and he dug into the coin with his knife, "it's white inside, made of Babbit metal, milled with a file and gold-plated.

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson