In Popular Culture
- Although Gabriel is referred to as "he" in the Bible, and is explicitly called "The man Gabriel" (in Daniel 9:21), some popular representations, especially in New Age circles, portray Gabriel as female or androgynous.
- In "A Passage for Trumpet", a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone, Gabriel acts as an advisor for recently-killed trumpet player Joey Crown and encourages him to return from limbo to life.
- Gabriel is portrayed by Christopher Walken in the 1995 fantasy/horror thriller The Prophecy and its sequels
- In the 2004 action/horror film Van Helsing, Hugh Jackman plays Gabriel Van Helsing, the Archangel Gabriel in the flesh
- Gabriel is portrayed by Tilda Swinton in the 2005 fantasy/horror thriller Constantine
- The CW 2005 TV series Supernatural features Gabriel, portrayed as a man who initially appears posing as the pagan Trickster god Loki until his status as an archangel is revealed, after which he is killed by his brother Lucifer
- Gabriel, a 2007 Australian religious action-horror film
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)