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Burnt (film)

Burnt is a 2015 American comedy-drama directed by John Wells, starring Bradley Cooper as Adam Jones, a disgraced chef returning to London to win a third Michelin star.

Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем)

Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1994 Russian-French drama about KomDiv Kotov's arrest during the 1936 purges; it won the 1995 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1994 Cannes Grand Jury Prize.

Burnt ends

Burnt ends: crispy smoked beef brisket point pieces, a Kansas City barbecue specialty also called brownies. Originated as free Arthur Bryant's scraps, popularized by Calvin Trillin's 1972 Playboy essay, now a national menu staple.

Burnt Money

Burnt Money (Plata quemada) is Marcelo Piñeyro's 2000 Argentine-Spanish crime film based on Ricardo Piglia's novel, about criminal lovers El Nene and Ángel whose 1965 armored-truck robbery fails; it won the 2001 Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film.

Burnt Norton

"Burnt Norton" is a meditative poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1936 and later the opening poem of Four Quartets, which it set the five-part form for.

Burnt Offerings (film)

Burnt Offerings (1976) is a haunted-house horror film directed by Dan Curtis, adapted from Robert Marasco's 1973 novel, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis, filmed at Oakland's Dunsmuir House and a precursor to The Shining.

Burnt Sugar (band)

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is a New York conducted-improvisation ensemble founded in 1999 by Village Voice writer Greg Tate with bassist Jared Michael Nickerson, distinct from the Wellington Burnt Sugar quintet and the perfume Burnt Sugar; 22 releases on AVANT GROIDD Musica.

Buro Shaliker Ghare Ro

Buro Shaliker Ghare Ro (বুড়ো শালিকের ঘাড়ে রোঁ; New Feathers on an Old Bird) is an 1860 Bengali farce by Michael Madhusudan Dutt satirizing a pious but lascivious zamindar.

Burqa (برقع)

Burqa (برقع, burka, burkha): Muslim women's covering garment. Afghan chadri covers the whole body with a mesh eye grille; Gulf and Emirati burqas are face masks leaving the eyes clear; subject of European face-covering bans.

Burrata

Burrata, also known as Burrata di Andria, is a fresh Italian cow's-milk cheese from Andria in Apulia, made as a mozzarella shell filled with creamy stracciatella.

Burrito

Burrito: a flour tortilla wrapped around fillings of meat, beans, rice, and cheese; from Mexican Spanish "little donkey." Originated in northern Mexico; Mission-style and California burritos are American developments.

Burt (film)

Burt (2025) is a black-and-white American indie comedy-drama by Joe Burke and Oliver Cooper, starring real singer-songwriter Burt Berger, 69, who has Parkinson's, as a man visited by a stranger claiming to be his son; shot in 7 days for $7,000 and self-distributed after 28 festival rejections.

Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach (1928–2023), American composer and songwriter, wrote pop standards with lyricist Hal David for Dionne Warwick and others, winning three Oscars, multiple Grammys, and the 2012 Gershwin Prize.

Burt Kwouk

Burt Kwouk (18 July 1930 - 24 May 2016), British actor of Chinese heritage born in Warrington and raised in Shanghai; best known as Cato in seven Pink Panther films, Mr Ling in Goldfinger, Major Yamauchi in Tenko, and Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine; OBE 2011.

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster (Burton Stephen Lancaster), American actor born 1913 in East Harlem, died 1994; former circus acrobat turned Hollywood star, Oscar winner for Elmer Gantry, founder of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, known for The Killers, From Here to Eternity, The Leopard.

Burt Mustin

Burt Mustin (Burton Hill Mustin) was an American character actor who began his screen career at age 67 in 1951, appearing in more than 150 films and 400 TV productions.

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds (Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., 1936-2018), American actor and director, star of Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, and Boogie Nights; top box-office draw 1978-82, Emmy winner for Evening Shade.

Burt Ward

Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis Jr., 1945) is the American actor who played Robin, the Boy Wonder, opposite Adam West in ABC's Batman (1966-1968, 120 episodes); later voice of Robin in animated films and founder of the Gentle Giants dog rescue.

Burt Young

Burt Young (Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, 1940-2023) was an American actor and painter who played Paulie Pennino in six Rocky films and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for the 1976 original.

Burton Cummings

Burton Cummings (born 1947, Winnipeg) is a Canadian rock singer, songwriter, and keyboardist, lead vocalist of The Guess Who (1965-1975) with "American Woman," then a solo star with "Stand Tall" and triple-platinum Canadian certification.

Bury a Friend

Bury a Friend (bury a friend) is Billie Eilish's January 30, 2019 single with Finneas O'Connell, first single from When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, written from the monster-under-the-bed's perspective, inspired by night terrors, with a Michael Chaves horror video.

Bury Bible

The Bury Bible is a large illuminated Latin Bible made around 1130–1135 for the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, and now held in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film): 2007 HBO television drama directed by Yves Simoneau, written by Daniel Giat, adapted from Dee Brown's 1970 book; stars Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin; won 6 of 17 Emmy nominations.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a 2025 standalone novel by V. E. Schwab. It follows three women turned into vampires across three different historical settings.

Bury Tomorrow

Bury Tomorrow are an English metalcore band formed in 2006 in Hampshire, known for blending post-hardcore melody with heavy breakdowns and for four top 40 UK albums.

Bury your gays

Bury your gays, also called dead lesbian syndrome, is a media trope in which LGBT characters die or are destroyed, especially soon after entering a same-sex relationship.

Burying the Ex

Burying the Ex (2014) is a Joe Dante horror comedy, written by Alan Trezza from his 2008 short, starring Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, and Alexandra Daddario; a dead girlfriend returns as a zombie. Premiered at Venice 2014, released in the US June 19, 2015, grossing $668,777.

Burzum

Burzum is the one-man Norwegian black metal and dark ambient project of Varg Vikernes (Count Grishnackh), founded 1991; name means darkness in Tolkien's Black Speech; four 1992–1993 albums, imprisonment for Euronymous's murder, and continued releases.

BUS (band)

BUS (บัส), also BUS because of you i shine, is a 12-member Thai T-pop boy group formed on the 789 Survival show under SONRAY MUSIC, debuting December 6, 2023 with "Because of You, I Shine"; distinguishes it from unrelated acts named Bus.

Bus 174

Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) is José Padilha's 2002 Brazilian documentary about Sandro do Nascimento's live-televised hijacking of a Rio de Janeiro bus on 12 June 2000, intercut with the hijacker's life story; Peabody and Emmy-winning directorial debut.