Babbit

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“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

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

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