Babbit

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2017

“She didn’t send out any signal of interest, much less send in an application,” Arizona’s then-Governor Babbit told the Washington Post in 1989.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2016

Joe: It does seem worth noting that the episode, which I thought continued the show’s recent strong streak overall, was directed by Jamie Babbit.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 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

At the long table, where sat Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, Babbit, and so on, I looked sharply for Mr. and Mrs. Lewis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various