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When I saw Babbitt on the evening of December 13, 1986, he told me over dinner with him and his wife, Barbara, at his home in Hollywood that he was "still filled with bitter bile about the strike." By the time we cut into our steaks, that bile had already spilled over into our recorded interview. […]
I interviewed Babbitt the day after I interviewed Ward Kimball […] and, as with Kimball, my interview with Babbitt was devoted largely to asking him to respond to what other people had said. Toward the end of the interview, though, we talked about his early years, and it was here particularly I felt that Babbitt's rare openness was paying dividends. He spoke on many other occasions of his resentment toward the Disney brothers, but rarely of his youthful escapades. […]
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