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Buffet Froid

Buffet froid is a 1979 French black comedy by Bertrand Blier, his fifth feature, starring Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, and Jean Carmet as killers in a deserted Paris; it won the 1980 César for Best Screenplay.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie (Beverly Jean Santamaria, born 1941), American Oscar-winning folk singer-songwriter of 'Up Where We Belong' and 'Universal Soldier'; lost Order of Canada, Junos, Polaris prizes, and honorary degrees after a 2023 CBC investigation disputed her Cree ancestry claims.

Buffy Summers

Buffy Summers, protagonist of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its 1992 film, is the Slayer, a Chosen One fighting vampires in Sunnydale; played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, analyzed as an Adventurer-Hero archetype, she is a landmark feminist television heroine.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, also called BtVS, is Joss Whedon's 1997-2003 supernatural drama starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Slayer Buffy Summers in Sunnydale; seven seasons, 144 episodes, and a Hulu revival cancelled in 2026.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 film), Joss Whedon's feature screenwriting debut directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui, a horror-comedy starring Kristy Swanson as a cheerleader chosen to slay vampires; a box-office disappointment that spawned the acclaimed 1997 TV series.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: 40-issue Dark Horse Comics series (2007–2011), the canonical comic continuation of the TV show overseen and partly written by Joss Whedon, opening with The Long Way Home.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale was an unproduced Hulu sequel pilot to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Ryan Kiera Armstrong with Sarah Michelle Gellar recurring; Hulu passed in March 2026.

Bug (2006 film)

Bug (2006 film) is a psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin. It stars Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon in a paranoid story set in an Oklahoma motel.

Bug Ego

Bug Ego (バグエゴ, Bagu Ego) is a seinen manga by ONE (One-Punch Man) and Kiyoto Shitara, serialized by Shueisha in Ultra Jump since October 2024, about high schoolers using a notebook of reality-altering hacks.

Bug Hall

Bug Hall (Brandon Hall, born 1985, Fort Worth, Texas) is the American actor who played Alfalfa in The Little Rascals (1994). Later roles in The Big Green, Criminal Minds, Harley and the Davidsons; now a self-described radical Catholic extremist living off-grid in Arkansas.

Bug Juice

Bug Juice is a Disney Channel documentary-style reality series (1998–2001) following kids aged 12–15 at summer camp, with seasons at Camp Waziyatah in Maine, Camp Highlander in North Carolina, and Brush Ranch Camps in New Mexico.

Bugarštica

Bugarštica, originally bugaršćica, is a South Slavic oral narrative song in long 15- or 16-syllable lines, first recorded in 1497 and the oldest form of Croatian oral narrative poetry.

Bugis literature

Bugis literature is the written and oral literary tradition of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, ranging from the epic La Galigo to chronicles and heroic poetry.

Bugle

Bugle: valveless brass signal instrument with cup mouthpiece and conical bore, sounding only harmonic-series notes; US regulation bugle in G; over 100 Navy calls; taps dates to July 1862.

Bugonia (film)

Bugonia is a 2025 dark science-fiction comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and was nominated for four 2026 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is the wisecracking cartoon rabbit of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes, formally debuting in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (July 27, 1940) with the catchphrase "What's up, Doc?", voiced by Mel Blanc, and developed collectively by Hardaway, Avery, Clampett, Jones, Freleng, and McKimson.

Bugsy

Bugsy (1991) is Barry Levinson's biographical crime drama starring Warren Beatty as mobster Bugsy Siegel and Annette Bening as Virginia Hill; it earned ten Oscar nominations, won two, and took the Golden Globe for Best Drama.

Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone is Alan Parker's 1976 all-child-cast gangster musical, set in 1929 New York with splurge guns firing cream, songs by Paul Williams, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster, five BAFTA wins and an Oscar nomination.

Bugzy Malone

Bugzy Malone, stage name of Aaron Davis (born 1990), is an English grime MC and actor from Manchester, the first successful grime artist from that city, with UK Top 10 EPs and the albums B. Inspired (2018) and The Resurrection (2021).

Bùi Giáng

Bùi Giáng (1926–1998) was a Vietnamese poet, translator, and scholar of literature and philosophy who spent his career in Sài Gòn and became one of the most reprinted authors of southern Vietnamese literature.

Bùi Xuân Phái

Bùi Xuân Phái (1920–1988) was a Vietnamese painter, one of the "four pillars" of modern Vietnamese art, best known for his oil paintings of Hanoi's Old Quarter, the "Phố Phái" style.

Building the Band

Building the Band is a 2025 Netflix reality singing competition in which 50 singers audition blind in booths, form six bands, and compete for $500,000; hosted by AJ McLean, judged by Nicole Scherzinger, Liam Payne, and Kelly Rowland, canceled after one season in June 2026.

Buile Shuibhne

Buile Shuibhne (Buile Suibhne, The Frenzy/Madness of Suibhne) is a medieval Irish prosimetric tale in which the Ulster king Suibhne (Sweeney), cursed by St Rónán, goes mad at the battle of Magh Rath (637) and lives wild like a bird as a poet; edited by O'Keeffe in 1913 and translated by Heaney as Sweeney Astray.

Built to Spill

Built to Spill is a Boise, Idaho indie rock band founded by Doug Martsch in 1992, known for rotating lineups, the 1990s albums Perfect From Now On and Keep It Like a Secret, a Warner Bros. era (1995–2016), and the 2022 Sub Pop release When the Wind Forgets Your Name.

Bujangga Manik

Bujangga Manik is an Old Sundanese narrative poem of about 1500, preserved on a single palm-leaf manuscript in the Bodleian Library, recounting a Hindu-Sundanese hermit's travels through Java and Bali.

Bujji & Bhairava

Bujji & Bhairava (B&B: Bujji and Bhairava, బుజ్జి అండ్ భైరవా) is a 2024 Telugu animated Prime Video prelude to Kalki 2898 AD, directed by Nag Ashwin, following bounty hunter Bhairava and AI vehicle Bujji in 2896 AD Kasi.

Bujjigadu (బుజ్జిగాడు)

Bujjigadu (బుజ్జిగాడు), aka Bujjigaadu: Made in Chennai, is a 2008 Telugu action drama romance by Puri Jagannadh starring Prabhas, Trisha, and Mohan Babu; childhood lovers separated 12 years, gang feud, Rajinikanth-fan hero.

Buju Banton

Buju Banton (Mark Anthony Myrie), Jamaican dancehall and reggae deejay born 1972 in Salt Lane, Kingston; 1992 Mr. Mention broke Marley's No. 1 record, 1995 'Til Shiloh, 2011 Grammy for Before the Dawn, US cocaine conviction 2011-2018, 2026 album Too Too Bad.

Buk Bak

Buk Bak was a Ghanaian hiplife group formed in the 1990s by Prince Bright, Ronny Coaches, and Isaac Shoetan, known for rapping in Ga, Twi, and Pidgin English.

Bukan Pasar Malam

Bukan Pasar Malam is a short novel by the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, published by Balai Pustaka around 1950 and read as a record of disillusionment after the revolution.