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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 1898-1956), German Marxist playwright and director; created epic theater, the Verfremdungseffekt, The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill, and the Berliner Ensemble.
Bertran de Born
Bertran de Born (ca. 1140–before 1215), Occitan troubadour and lord of Hautefort castle in Périgord, wrote about 40–48 poems, mostly political war sirventes; only Rassa, tan creis survives with music. Dante damned him in Inferno XXVIII as a sower of discord.
Bertrand Cantat
Bertrand Cantat (born 1964, Pau) is the French singer-songwriter who led the rock band Noir Désir; convicted in 2004 in Vilnius to eight years for the fatal assault of actor Marie Trintignant, released conditionally in 2007, later in Détroit.
Beryl Bainbridge
Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) was an English novelist known for short, darkly comic fiction; she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, more than anyone without winning.
Berzanji
Berzanji (برزنجي), also spelled Barzanji, is a Southeast Asian devotional recitation praising the Prophet Muhammad in rhythmic song, based on an Arabic text by Ja'far al-Barzanji, who died in 1766.
Beş Hececiler
Beş Hececiler, or Hecenin Beş Şairi, names five Turkish poets, including Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, who turned from aruz to syllabic meter around 1917 under Ziya Gökalp's influence.
Bésame Mucho
Bésame Mucho, the Mexican bolero by Consuelo Velázquez (written 1938–1940, first performed 1941 by Emilio Tuero), the most covered Spanish-language song per Guinness 1996, translated into over 20 languages and recorded by The Beatles, Sinatra, and Dua Lipa.
Besharam (2013 film)
Besharam (बेशरम, "Shameless") is a 2013 Hindi action comedy directed by Abhinav Kashyap, starring Ranbir Kapoor as car thief Babli opposite Pallavi Sharda, with Rishi and Neetu Kapoor as cop couple Chulbul and Bulbul Chautala; released 2 October 2013, it flopped at the box office.
Besiki
Besiki (ბესიკი) was the pen name of Besarion Gabashvili, an 18th-century Georgian poet and diplomat, born in Tbilisi in 1750 and known for raising Georgian love poetry to new heights.
Bespoke tailoring
Bespoke tailoring: garments made from a pattern drafted from scratch for one customer, with multiple fittings; distinct from made-to-measure, which adjusts an existing pattern; centered historically on Savile Row.
Bess Armstrong
Bess Armstrong, born Elizabeth Key Armstrong in 1953, is an American actress known for The Four Seasons, High Road to China, Jaws 3-D, and as Patty Chase on My So-Called Life, with recent roles in Bosch and The Good Doctor.
Bess Houdini
Bess Houdini (Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner), stage assistant and wife of escape artist Harry Houdini, married him in 1894; after his 1926 death she held annual Halloween séances for ten years with a coded 'Rosabelle Believe' test message and $10,000 reward, ending in the 1936 Knickerbocker Hotel final séance.
Bess Meisler
Bess Meisler is an American actress best known as Yiayia, the deadpan Greek grandmother in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), after a career on Broadway and television.
Bess Myerson
Bess Myerson (1924–2014), Miss America 1945 and Miss New York City, was the first and only Jewish Miss America and first scholarship winner; later a game-show panelist and New York City consumer and cultural affairs commissioner.
Bessie (film)
Bessie is a 2015 HBO Films biographical drama directed by Dee Rees, starring Queen Latifah as blues singer Bessie Smith, with Mo'Nique as Ma Rainey. Developed over 20 years, it won four Primetime Emmys including Outstanding Television Movie.
Bessie Head
Bessie Head (Bessie Amelia Emery Head) was a South African-born novelist exiled in Botswana, known for the novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power.
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (1894-1937), the Empress of the Blues, was a Chattanooga-born blues and jazz singer whose 1923 Columbia recording Downhearted Blues sold about 800,000 copies; she made some 160 recordings, became the highest-paid Black entertainer of her day, and died in a 1937 car crash in Mississippi.
Best Artist (music)
Best Artist (ベストアーティスト) is an annual year-end live music special produced by Nippon TV in Tokyo, first aired in 2001 and hosted since 2009 by Sho Sakurai of Arashi.
Best Artist of the Year (Daesang)
Artist of the Year (올해의 아티스트) is a grand prize, or Daesang, of the Melon Music Awards, given to the act with the best streaming performance on Melon each year.
Best boy
Best boy: second-in-command of a film set's electric or grip department; best boy electric assists the gaffer, best boy grip assists the key grip, managing crew, equipment, trucks, and paperwork.
Best Boy (2025 film)
Best Boy (Le meilleur fils) is a 2025 Canadian black comedy-thriller written and directed by Jesse Noah Klein, premiering at Edinburgh 2025. Three siblings (Aaron Abrams, Caroline Dhavernas, Marc Bendavid) compete for a $100,000 inheritance in a sadistic childhood contest at their family cottage, released theatrically in Canada in May 2026. Distinct from other 2025 'boy' titles such as Good Boy, Boy, and The Unbreakable Boy.
Best Choice Ever (承欢记)
Best Choice Ever (承欢记, Cheng Huan Ji) is a 2024 Chinese urban romance drama adapted from Yi Shu's 1996 novel, directed by Tian Yu, starring Yang Zi and Xu Kai, 37 episodes on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video from April 9, 2024.
Best Cinematography (film award category)
Best Cinematography film award category honoring directors of photography; the Academy Award version dates to 1929, uses Cinematographers Branch shortlist voting, and in 2026 saw Autumn Durald Arkapaw become its first woman winner.
Best Coast
Best Coast is an American indie rock duo formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, known for lo-fi pop drawing on 1960s surf rock and girl groups.
Best F(r)iends
Best F(r)iends: 2017 two-part black comedy thriller by Justin MacGregor, written by Greg Sestero, reuniting Sestero and Tommy Wiseau 15 years after The Room; drifter and mortician sell corpse gold.
Best Friends
Best Friends is a 1982 American romantic comedy directed by Norman Jewison, starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn as a Hollywood writing team whose marriage strains their relationship.
Best Friends Forever (sculpture)
Best Friends Forever: 12-foot faux-bronze 2025 sculpture by anonymous collective The Secret Handshake showing Trump and Epstein holding hands on the National Mall; permitted, removed within 24 hours, reinstalled October 2, 2025.
Best Friends Whenever
Best Friends Whenever: Disney Channel sitcom (2015-2016) created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas; teens Cyd and Shelby gain time travel after Barry's lab mishap; 31 episodes, 2 seasons, TV-G.
Best in Miniature
Best in Miniature is a Canadian CBC reality competition series (2022–2023, marblemedia) hosted by Aba Amuquandoh, judged by Emma Waddell and Michael Lambie, in which artists build 1:12-scale dream homes for a $15,000 prize; three seasons, 26 episodes, canceled.
Best in Show (film)
Best in Show (2000) is a Christopher Guest mockumentary comedy, co-written with Eugene Levy, following five dog owners at the fictional Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia; 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, $18.6M domestic gross.