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White Bird (film)
White Bird (White Bird: A Wonder Story) is a 2024 Marc Forster drama adapted from R.J. Palacio's graphic novel, a Wonder companion film starring Helen Mirren, Ariella Glaser, and Gillian Anderson about a Jewish girl hidden in Nazi-occupied France; released October 4, 2024, Metascore 54, RT 75%.
White Bird in a Blizzard
White Bird in a Blizzard is Gregg Araki's 2014 drama adapted from Laura Kasischke's 1999 novel, premiering at Sundance; Shailene Woodley's Kat copes with mother Eva Green's 1988 disappearance. Not the 2024 Holocaust film White Bird.
White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick is a 2018 American crime drama directed by Yann Demange, starring Matthew McConaughey and Richie Merritt, about Detroit teen informant Richard Wershe Jr., his life sentence, and 2017 parole.
White Castle (restaurant)
White Castle, founded 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, by Walt Anderson and Billy Ingram, is credited as the first fast-food hamburger chain, known for square steamed Sliders, standardized operations, and Columbus, Ohio family ownership.
White Cat Legend (大理寺少卿游)
White Cat Legend (大理寺少卿游) is a 2024 iQiyi live-action costume mystery comedy adapted from RC's manhua Da Li Si Ri Zhi, starring Ding Yuxi as cat-faced Dali Temple assistant minister Li Bing; 36 episodes, Douban 6.8.
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is a 1950 oil painting by Mark Rothko, sold in 2007 for a then-record 72.84 million dollars.
White Chicks
White Chicks is a 2004 American comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Shawn and Marlon Wayans as Black FBI brothers who disguise themselves as white socialite sisters.
White chocolate
White chocolate: a confection of cocoa butter, milk solids, and sugar with no cocoa solids, defined by FDA (21 CFR 163.124, min 20% cocoa butter, max 55% sweetener) and Codex standards; first commercialized by Nestlé (Galak/Milkybar) in Switzerland in 1936.
White Christmas (Black Mirror)
White Christmas (2014) is Black Mirror's 90-minute Channel 4 Christmas special, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Carl Tibbetts, starring Jon Hamm and Rafe Spall; it introduced cookie consciousness copies and Z-Eye blocking, and was the series' last Channel 4 episode.
White Christmas (film)
White Christmas (1954) is a Paramount Technicolor musical directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen; the first VistaVision film and 1954's top-grossing release.
White Christmas (song)
White Christmas (song), 1942 Irving Berlin song, aka 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas', recorded by Bing Crosby for Holiday Inn; best-selling single in history with about 50 million copies sold and a 1942 Oscar for Best Song.
White Claw Hard Seltzer
White Claw Hard Seltzer is a 5% ABV alcoholic seltzer launched in the US in 2016 by Mark Anthony Group, made from seltzer water, a gluten-free alcohol base, and fruit flavor; it leads the global hard seltzer market with about 58% share and spans Surge, Clawtails, and Zero Proof lines.
White Clothes
White Clothes (Белые одежды) is a 1987 novel by Vladimir Dudintsev, published in Neva, about geneticists persecuted in Stalin-era Soviet science; it won the 1988 USSR State Prize.
White coffee
White coffee (kopi putih, 白咖啡) most famously means Ipoh white coffee, a Malaysian style with beans roasted in palm-oil margarine and little sugar, served with condensed milk; the term also covers white roast beans, a Lebanese herbal infusion, and coffee with milk.
White Coke
White Coke was a clear, colorless Coca-Cola made in the 1940s for Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, disguised as vodka in straight bottles with a red-star cap; never sold publicly.
White Collar (TV series)
White Collar is a USA Network crime drama (2009–2014, six seasons) created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt Bomer as con artist Neal Caffrey consulting for FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay); a sequel, White Collar Renaissance, remains unproduced.
White Dawns
White Dawns (Beli mugri) is a 1939 collection of 12 poems by the Macedonian poet Kočo Racin, regarded as a foundational work of modern Macedonian literature.
White Day (ホワイトデー)
White Day (ホワイトデー) is a Japanese holiday on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day, when men give return gifts, traditionally white confections, to women; it also spread to South Korea and Taiwan.
White Deer Plain (白鹿原)
White Deer Plain (白鹿原) is Wang Quan'an's 2012 film adapting Chen Zhongshi's Mao Dun Prize novel about the Bai and Lu families in Shaanxi; Berlin Silver Bear, multiple censored cuts, 2017 TV remake.
White dress of Marilyn Monroe
The white dress of Marilyn Monroe is William Travilla's pleated white crepe halter dress from The Seven Year Itch (1955), worn in the subway-grate scene filmed 15 September 1954; it sold for $4.6 million in 2011.
WHITE Dubai (nightclub)
WHITE Dubai is a rooftop nightclub in Dubai, opened in 2013 at Meydan Racecourse and ranked as high as No. 15 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
White Egrets
White Egrets is a 2010 poetry collection by Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, a sequence of 54 poems that won the T. S. Eliot Prize.
White elephant
A white elephant is a costly possession that is more burden than benefit and hard to dispose of, a term from sacred Southeast Asian elephants.
White émigré literature
White émigré literature is the Russian-language literature produced abroad by exiles who fled Russia after the 1917 revolution and Civil War, centered first in Berlin and then Paris.
White Fang
White Fang (1906) is Jack London's novel of a three-quarters-wolf Yukon wolf-dog tamed from savagery to domesticity, the inverse companion to The Call of the Wild, amid the nature-faker controversy.
White Fang (1991 film)
White Fang (1991) is a Walt Disney adventure drama directed by Randal Kleiser, loosely adapting Jack London's novel, starring Ethan Hawke as Yukon prospector Jack Conroy and the dog Jed as the wolf-dog; it grossed $34.7 million domestically and spawned a 1994 sequel.
White Ferrari
"White Ferrari" is a 2016 song by Frank Ocean, track 14 on the album Blonde. Also known through its Beatles interpolation of "Here, There and Everywhere"; credited to Ocean, Om'Mas Keith, James Blake, Kanye West, Lennon–McCartney.
White Girl (2016 film)
White Girl (2016) is Elizabeth Wood's debut drama, starring Morgan Saylor and Brian Marc, premiered at Sundance 2016, acquired by Netflix, distributed by FilmRise, grossing $200,242 worldwide.
White God
White God (Fehér Isten, 2014) is Kornél Mundruczó's Hungarian-German-Swedish drama in which a tax on mixed-breed dogs triggers a canine revolt in Budapest; it won Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize and the Palm Dog.
White Gold (TV series)
White Gold is a BBC Two sitcom (2017–2019, 12 episodes) by Damon Beesley about 1983 Essex double-glazing salesmen, led by Ed Westwick's Vincent Swan, loosely based on Beesley's salesman father.