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

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

Ms. Babbit also happens to be behind some of my favorite episodes of “Gilmore Girls,” a master class in family drama, so pairing her with the material here was an inspired choice.

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

Babbit and Battle report an ingenious method of removing a piece of meat occluding the esophagus—the application of trypsin.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)