The Waffle House kept going. Humans kept trying. Not gracefully. Not consistently. Not with the kind of composure Heaven liked to pretend mattered. They tried while hungry. They tried while tired. They tried in the middle of embarrassment, heartbreak, and shifts that ran too long, conversations that should have ended but didn’t, and nights that had gone sideways hours before. They made food. Shared it. Stayed. Apologized badly. Laughed too hard. Came undone in public and were gathered back together by caffeine, comfort, or somebody saying honey like it still meant something altogether more divine. Gabriel watched them with that same softened attention. At last they said, “Humans keep trying.” Michael nodded. “So did we.” Gabriel was quiet for a beat. Then, softer still, they said, “So do we.”

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Gabriel had forgotten how loud humans were when they were tired. Not loud in the catastrophic sense. Not loud like battle or collapse or Revelation. Loud in the smaller, stranger way of mortal creatures trying to outwit exhaustion with sugar, caffeine, and the stubborn conviction that whatever had happened to them up to this point in the evening could still be redeemed by hash browns and a conversation that should have ended in the parking lot but had somehow made it all the way to a booth under fluorescent light. Michael seemed completely at ease in the middle of it. That, more than the place itself, was what unnerved Gabriel. The Waffle House sat off the road like an afterthought the universe had accidentally made permanent. Its yellow sign buzzed faintly against the dark. Inside, the air smelled of coffee, hot grease, syrup, onions, and a kind of exhausted civic tenderness no angel had ever successfully replicated by committee. Every surface shone with that peculiar human compromise between cleanliness and overuse. The booths were cracked in places. The laminated menus had the texture of something handled by generations of people who had come there hungry, grieving, drunk, hopeful, or all four.

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🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 10: Chapter 17: The Trouble with God, According to Lucifer (The Corpse Was Uncooperative) Listen now | 🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 10: Chapter 17: The Trouble with God, According to Lucifer (The Corpse Was Uncooperative) | When the fate of humanity is still hanging somewh...

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archangels at waffle house
and a heavenly murder mystery dinner where the corpse would not respect procedure

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Today marks 60 years since the The Trouble With Angels (1966)! It was Ida Lupino's last directorial project and starred Hayley Mills, Rosalind Russell, and June Harding! What's your favorite moment in the movie? #ticklishbiz #thetroublewithangels #oldhollywood

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Join us this March on “It’s A Wonderful Podcast” as we celebrate #InternationalWomensMonth by discussing the films of trailblazing actress and director Ida Lupino! #Outrage #TheHitchHiker #TheBigamist #TheTroubleWithAngels

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Episode 411 - March 27

THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS (1966)

Closing the series with lighter fare as #HayleyMills leads a duo of trouble-making teens making life difficult for the nuns in charge of their Catholic all girls school!

#RosalindRussell co-stars

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Who was this movie for ....was this supposed to be for teenage girls....like why would she want to be a nun...Go experience the world #tcmparty #thetroublewithangels

Late-career Rosalind Russell playing a nun in a Hayley Mills film: indisputably hot.
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I love this film even if the ending is a but rushed
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Neither Hayley Mills, June Harding or Mary Wickes (who’d played Sister Clarissa) knew how to swim so they were supposed to learn at a YMCA before filming began. Wickes didn’t and could only be in the shallow end with assistance.
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To be fair, the original dress was at least dress shaped and had the correct number of holes???
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“The Trouble with Angels” (1966) was the final film directed by Actress-Filmmaker Ida Lupino. She directed TV for the remainder of her career. (Pictured: Ida Lupino on the set with stars Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills)
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BTW stuffing your windows with a blanket/pillow/towel totally works to help trap heat. My bedroom at home has a bay window and doing that totally made a difference during these past few big freezes
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If Rachel seems a little Mature™️ that’s because June Harding was 28 when she made this film. Her partner in crime Hayley Mills was 19.
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“Your parents said that you’re all clumsy and awkward AF”
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Immovable Object meets Unstoppable Force
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For the curious: Marvel is an actual human name but it’s not very popular
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The animated opening credits were done by The DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, the studio behind “The Pink Panther” (youtu.be/tDzaS5NXuII?...)
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3… 2.. 1. . PRESS PLAY!
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just posters
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Day 9
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"The Trouble With Angels" (1966)
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#Films
#Filmsky🎥
#Movies
#Moviesky🎬🍿
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