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Being There
Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 satirical comedy-drama, also known by its hero's alias Chauncey Gardiner, adapted from Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novel. Peter Sellers plays Chance, a TV-educated gardener mistaken for a sage; Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas co-star; released December 20, 1979.
Beintehaa
Beintehaa (बेइंतहा) is an Indian Colors TV romantic drama (30 December 2013 to 21 November 2014, 235 episodes) by Fortune Productions, starring Preetika Rao and Harshad Arora as rival cousins Aaliya and Zain in a Muslim family; distinct from the unrelated 2020 series of the same name.
Beirut (band)
Beirut is an American indie band formed in 2006 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the solo project of Zach Condon, blending Balkan brass and French chanson; albums include Gulag Orkestar, The Rip Tide, Hadsel, and A Study of Losses.
Beirut (film)
Beirut (2018) is an American political thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Tony Gilroy, starring Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike. A diplomat returns to 1982 civil-war Beirut to negotiate a hostage release; shot in Tangier, loosely based on the William Buckley kidnapping.
Beirut Holidays
Beirut Holidays, also called Beirut Holidays Festival, is an annual summer music festival in Beirut, Lebanon, launched in 2012, mixing Arab and international headliners on waterfront stages.
Beixue
Beixue (碑学, "stele learning") is a Chinese calligraphy school that takes ancient stele inscriptions as its models, opposed to tiexue, and rose to dominance in the Qing dynasty.
Bekhudi (बेख़ुदी)
Bekhudi (बेख़ुदी) is a 1992 Hindi film directed by Rahul Rawail, released 31 July 1992, marking Kajol's debut opposite Kamal Sadanah; Saif Ali Khan was replaced on day one.
Bel Ami (2012 film)
Bel Ami is a 2012 period drama directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, adapted from Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel, with Robert Pattinson as a seductive social climber in 1890s Paris.
Bel canto
Bel canto ("beautiful singing") is the Italian vocal technique and early Romantic opera style of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, defined by legato, even registers, agility, and ornamentation.
Bel Canto (novel)
Bel Canto (2001) is Ann Patchett's fourth novel, a loose fictionalization of the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, following soprano Roxane Coss and captors and captives; winner of the PEN/Faulkner and Orange prizes.
Bel Powley
Bel Powley (Isobel Dorothy Powley, born 1992, London) is an English actress known for M.I. High, The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Gotham Best Actress), A Small Light, The Morning Show, and HBO's Harry Potter series.
Bel-Air (TV series)
Bel-Air is a Peacock drama (2022-2025) reimagining The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, created by Morgan Stevenson Cooper from a viral 2019 trailer, starring Jabari Banks, produced with Will Smith's Westbrook Studios, four seasons.
Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami ("Dear Friend") is Guy de Maupassant's second realist novel, serialized in Gil-Blas in 1885, tracing Georges Duroy's opportunistic rise from penniless ex-soldier to Parisian newspaper director via seduction and marriage.
Béla Bartók
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist; with Kodaly collected folk songs, wrote Bluebeard's Castle, Mikrokosmos, Concerto for Orchestra, and researched Turkish-Hungarian folk music links.
Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck, born 1958, is an American banjo virtuoso and 19-time Grammy winner who plays bluegrass, jazz, classical, and world music; he led Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, played in New Grass Revival, and recorded Throw Down Your Heart, My Bluegrass Heart, and Rhapsody in Blue.
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi (Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, 1882–1956), Hungarian-born actor famous as Broadway and film Dracula (1927, 1931); typecast into Poverty Row horror, Ed Wood collaborator, buried in a Dracula cape.
Bela Padilla
Bela Padilla (Krista Elyse Hidalgo Cariño Sullivan, born 1991, Makati) is a Filipino-British actress, screenwriter, and director; starred in 100 Tula Para Kay Stella, directed 366 and Yung Libro sa Napanood Ko, related to the Padilla acting clan maternally.
Bela Talbot
Bela Talbot (real name Abby) is a Supernatural season 3 thief and con artist played by Lauren Cohan, who sold supernatural objects after a crossroads demon deal and died by hellhound in 2008.
Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr (1955-2026), Hungarian film director of Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, and The Turin Horse; pioneer of slow cinema with long black-and-white takes, adapted from László Krasznahorkai's novels, Silver Bear winner.
Belarusfilm (Беларусьфільм)
Belarusfilm (Беларусьфільм) is Belarus's state-owned national film studio in Minsk, founded 17 December 1924 as Belgoskino, renamed Soviet Belarus then Belarusfilm in 1946. Known for Soviet war and partisan films (nicknamed Partizanfilm) and Come and See; since 2020 it produces state-ordered ideological cinema.
Belarusian folk song
A Belarusian folk song (беларуская народная песня) is a song of traditional rural Belarusian culture, transmitted orally and divided by researchers into ritual songs tied to the calendar and life stages, and lyrical songs.
Belarusian modernism
Belarusian modernism is the modernist movement in early twentieth-century Belarusian literature and art, seen in the rival 1920s groups Maladniak and Uzvyshenne and later reevaluated under Soviet criticism in the 1930s.
Belarusian PEN Centre
The Belarusian PEN Centre, also known as PEN Belarus, is an association of independent Belarusian writers founded in 1989 and dissolved by court order in 2021.
Belarusian realism
Belarusian realism is the realist literary method in Belarusian literature, beginning with Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich in the 19th century and later led by Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas.
Belarusian Renaissance
The Belarusian Renaissance (Беларускае адраджэнне) was a national and cultural revival of the Belarusian people, running from the second half of the 1800s to the early 1900s.
Belarusian Soviet literature
Belarusian Soviet literature is the Belarusian-language writing of the Byelorussian SSR from 1919 to 1991, shaped by socialist realism and ending with Vasil Bykaŭ's war prose.
Belarusian symbolism
Belarusian symbolism (Belarusian: сімвалізм) is the Symbolist current in early 20th-century Belarusian poetry and the national symbols, like the Pahonia and white-red-white flag, in its literature.
Belaya Polosa (Белая Полоса)
Belaya Polosa (Белая Полоса, "White Stripe") is the fourth album by Belarusian post-punk band Molchat Doma, released September 6, 2024 on Sacred Bones; 10 songs, 48 minutes, Metascore 78, first album since Monument (2020), recorded after the band moved to Los Angeles.
Bélé
Bélé (also spelled bèlè) is a Caribbean tradition of drummed music and dance rooted in practices of enslaved Africans, best documented in Martinique and Dominica.
Belén (film)
Belén is a 2025 Argentine courtroom drama directed by and starring Dolores Fonzi, based on Ana Correa's book Somos Belén and the real 2014 Tucumán case of a woman imprisoned after a miscarriage; Argentina's 2026 Oscar entry, San Sebastián Silver Shell winner.