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Beach Rats
Beach Rats is a 2017 American drama by Eliza Hittman about Frankie, a Brooklyn teenager secretly meeting older men online while dating Simone; Sundance Directing Award winner starring Harris Dickinson, released August 25, 2017 by Neon.
Beach Read (film)
Beach Read (film): upcoming 2027 American romantic comedy adapted from Emily Henry's 2020 novel, directed and written by Yulin Kuang, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger as rival writers January Andrews and Gus Everett, releasing theatrically May 7, 2027.
Beach Reads
"Beach Reads" is the fourth episode of Apple TV's comedy horror Widow's Bay, written by Mackenzie Dohr and directed by Sam Donovan, released May 13, 2026. Patricia's self-help book is a grimoire; the episode is the season's highest-rated and won Kate O'Flynn an Emmy.
Beach, Please! Festival
Beach, Please! Festival: Romanian hip-hop and trap festival founded 2022 by Selly (Andrei Șelaru) and George Carabelea at Costinești, Black Sea; grew to 500,000+ attendees by 2025 at Nibiru Resort.
Beaches (1988 film)
Beaches is a 1988 Garry Marshall comedy-drama starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends C.C. Bloom and Hillary Whitney, adapted from Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel, a Touchstone release whose "Wind Beneath My Wings" won a Grammy.
Beaches (musical)
Beaches is a Broadway musical based on Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel about the lifelong friendship of Cee Cee Bloom and Bertie White, which ran in 2026.
Beacon 23
Beacon 23 is an MGM+ science fiction series (2023–2024) created by Zak Penn from Hugh Howey's 2015 short-story collection, starring Lena Headey and Stephan James as strangers trapped on a space lighthouse; two eight-episode seasons, mixed reviews.
Beacon Theatre (New York City)
Beacon Theatre, New York City: 1929 Upper West Side movie palace at 2124 Broadway, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager, now a ~2,800-seat MSG-operated landmark concert hall, home to the Allman Brothers Band's final show.
Bead
Bead: a small perforated object of glass, shell, stone, clay, bone, or metal, strung or sewn as adornment, currency, or trade good; also called trade beads. Known from 142,000-year-old shell beads, Venetian Murano production, and North American fur-trade assemblages.
Bead embroidery
Bead embroidery (珠绣) is needlework attaching beads singly or in groups to a ground fabric. Includes tambour beading and Luneville work; documented in Tang China, Métis floral beadwork, and Peranakan Nyonya traditions.
Beady Eye
Beady Eye: English rock band (2009-2014) formed by Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, and Chris Sharrock after Oasis split; albums Different Gear, Still Speeding (2011) and BE (2013).
Beah Richards
Beah Richards (Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, 1920-2000), American stage, film, and television actress, poet, and civil rights activist; Oscar-nominated for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, two-time Emmy winner, author of A Black Woman Speaks.
Beaker (Muppet)
Beaker is a Muppet character, the test-tube-shaped lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew at Muppet Labs, known for "meep" speech and suffering his boss's inventions; co-winner of a 2004 BBC favorite-scientist poll.
Beakman's World
Beakman's World is an American children's science TV series (1992–1998) starring Paul Zaloom as Beakman, based on Jok Church's comic strip You Can with Beakman and Jax, airing on TLC, syndication, and CBS, winning three Emmys.
Beam Me Up Scotty (mixtape)
Beam Me Up Scotty is Nicki Minaj's third mixtape, released free on DatPiff April 18, 2009, hosted by DJ Holiday and The Trapaholics; reissued to streaming May 14, 2021 with 23 tracks including 'Seeing Green' with Drake and Lil Wayne.
Beam me up, Scotty
"Beam me up, Scotty" is a Star Trek catchphrase attributed to Captain Kirk that was never actually spoken in the original series; closest lines include "Scotty, beam us up" and "Beam us up, Scotty" (animated, 1973), with print use from 1975.
Bean (film)
Bean, also released as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, is a 1997 comedy film in which Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean is sent to Los Angeles as a fake art expert.
Beanie (seamed cap)
Seamed beanie: a brimless skullcap whose crown is sewn from fabric or leather triangles, often topped with a button or pom-pom; etymology from slang "bean" (head), 1940; associated with school and fraternity caps and the whoopee cap.
Beanie Babies
Beanie Babies are a line of beanbag plush toys introduced by Ty Warner in 1993, filled with plastic pellets, that became one of the defining collectible crazes of the 1990s.
Beanie Feldstein
Beanie Feldstein (Elizabeth Greer Feldstein, born 1993) is an American actress, sister of Jonah Hill, known for Lady Bird, Booksmart (Golden Globe nomination), Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American Crime Story, and the 2022 Funny Girl revival.
Beanie Sigel
Beanie Sigel (Dwight Grant, born 1974) is a Philadelphia rapper of Roc-A-Fella Records and leader of State Property; albums The Truth, The B.Coming; prison terms for weapons and tax charges.
Bear (novel)
Bear is a 1976 novel by Canadian writer Marian Engel in which a lonely Toronto archivist enters into an erotic relationship with a bear on an island.
Bear Down (Yellowjackets)
Bear Down is the fourth episode of Yellowjackets season 1, aired December 5, 2021 on Showtime. Written by Liz Phang, directed by Deepa Mehta, it is the Natalie-centered hour revealing her father's death and the start of her bond with Travis.
Bear Family Records
Bear Family Records is a German independent reissue label founded in 1975 by Richard Weize near Bremen, known for scholarly LP/CD box sets with books covering country, rock'n'roll, blues, and historical music from 1896 onward.
Bear in the Big Blue House
Bear in the Big Blue House is a Jim Henson Television preschool series on Disney Channel from October 20, 1997 (117 episodes, through 2006), hosted by a seven-foot full-body puppet Bear performed and voiced by Noel MacNeal; Disney bought the property from the Henson Company in 2004.
Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary (born 1979) is an American composer for TV, film, and games, known for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, God of War, and The Rings of Power, with an Emmy, BAFTA Games Awards, and the rock project The Singularity.
Bear's Heart's Fort Marion Drawings
Bear's Heart's Fort Marion Drawings are ledger drawings made by Cheyenne artist Bear's Heart, a prisoner of war at Fort Marion in Florida, between 1875 and 1878.
Bearbrick
Bearbrick (BE@RBRICK) is a bear-shaped collectible art toy launched in 2001 by Japan's Medicom Toy under Tatsuhiko Akashi, sold in 100%, 400%, and 1000% sizes and decorated through thousands of artist and brand collaborations.
Bearbrick (TV series)
BE@RBRICK (Bearbrick TV series) is a 13-episode Apple TV+ animated musical comedy premiering March 21, 2025, produced by Dentsu and DreamWorks Animation from MediCom Toy's collectible bear figures, following Jasmine Finch and her band the Brushstrokes in Vinylville.
Beard Meats Food
Beard Meats Food, aka Adam Moran, Leeds-based British competitive eater and YouTuber; UK's number one independent competitive eater, MLE world rank 17, records in Yorkshire puddings and Jaffa cakes.