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Buster Brown

Buster Brown: American comic strip by Richard F. Outcault, debuting in the New York Herald May 4, 1902, starring the mischievous wealthy boy Buster, his dog Tige, and Mary Jane; famous for shoe-brand merchandising and newspaper rights battles.

Buster Crabbe

Buster Crabbe, born Clarence Linden Crabbe, was an American Olympic swimmer and actor who won 1932 gold in the 400-meter freestyle and starred as Flash Gordon.

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton (Joseph Frank Keaton, 1895–1966), "The Great Stone Face," American silent-film comedian and director of The General, Sherlock Jr., and Steamboat Bill, Jr.; vaudeville-trained, MGM-signed 1928, honorary Oscar 1960.

Buster Merryfield

Buster Merryfield (Harry Merryfield, 1920-1999), English actor and former NatWest bank manager who became Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses from 1985 to 1996, famous for the catchphrase "During the war...".

Buster Odeholm

Buster Odeholm, born 1992 in Glumslöv, Sweden, is a Swedish metal producer known for low-tuned extreme metal, guitarist of Humanity's Last Breath and drummer of Vildhjarta.

Buster Sword

Buster Sword (バスターソード), the oversized broadsword of Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII (1997), passed down from Angeal Hewley to Zack Fair; depicted over five feet long, a steel version would weigh around 120-156 kg.

Bustin' Loose

Bustin' Loose is the alias of Tom Lilly, a London-born producer and DJ based between London and New York who founded the disco label The Disco Express.

Bustle

Bustle: a pad, cushion, or wire or steel frame worn under the back of a woman's skirt, also called dress improver or tournure; defined the Victorian silhouette in two periods, about 1870–1875 and 1882–1889, peaking in size by 1886.

Busu

Busu (附子) is one of the best-known kyogen, the Japanese comic theater performed alongside noh: a master leaves servants guarding a 'poison' barrel that actually holds sugar.

Busuanzi: Ode to Plum Blossom

Busuanzi: Ode to Plum Blossom (卜算子·咏梅) is a Chinese ci poem by the Southern Song poet Lu You, an allegory of political isolation and integrity.

Busy Philipps

Busy Philipps (Elizabeth Jean Philipps, born 1979) is an American actress and host known for Kim Kelly in Freaks and Geeks, Audrey Liddell in Dawson's Creek, Laurie Keller in Cougar Town, and the talk shows Busy Tonight and Busy This Week.

Busy Woman

Busy Woman is a 2025 synth-pop song by Sabrina Carpenter from Short n' Sweet (Deluxe), written with Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff, released February 14, 2025 on Island; it peaked at UK number 6 and US Hot 100 number 27.

But Here We Are

But Here We Are is Foo Fighters' eleventh studio album, released June 2, 2023 on Roswell/RCA. Produced with Greg Kurstin, it is the first album after drummer Taylor Hawkins' March 2022 death, with Dave Grohl on drums and grief-themed lyrics written first.

But I'm a Cheerleader

But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 American satirical romantic comedy directed by Jamie Babbit, starring Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall, about a cheerleader sent to the True Directions conversion therapy camp, later a queer cult classic.

But You Caint Use My Phone

But You Caint Use My Phone: Erykah Badu's 2015 phone-themed mixtape, a "TRap & B" tape of 11 Motown tracks made in 12 days with Zach Witness, spawned by her Drake "Hotline Bling" remix.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is George Roy Hill's 1969 Western starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross, written by William Goldman with a Burt Bacharach score. Top-grossing film of 1969, four Oscars, National Film Registry 2003.

Butch Hartman

Butch Hartman (born 1965) is an American animator who created Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Bunsen Is a Beast, and later founded Butch Hartman Studios.

Butch Patrick

Butch Patrick (Patrick Alan Lilley, born 1953) is an American actor famous as Eddie Munster on CBS's The Munsters (1964–66); later Lidsville, Eddie and the Monsters, and convention appearances.

Butch Trucks

Butch Trucks (Claude Hudson Trucks, 1947–2017) was an American drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, playing 1969–2014 in its two-drummer section with Jaimoe; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995.

Butch Vig

Butch Vig (Bryan Vigorson, born 1955, Viroqua, Wisconsin) is the American producer of Nirvana's Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Siamese Dream, and drummer/co-founder of Garbage; he co-founded Smart Studios in Madison.

Butch Walker

Butch Walker (Bradley Glenn Walker III, born 1969, Rome, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter and producer, frontman of Marvelous 3 ("Freak of the Week"), solo artist from 2002, and producer for Avril Lavigne, P!nk, Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, and Green Day.

Butcher

Butcher: a person who slaughters animals or cuts, trims, and prepares meat for sale; also a butcher shop. Covers trade tasks, training, wages, safety, history from guilds to supermarkets, and whole-animal buying economics.

Butcher Babies

Butcher Babies: Los Angeles heavy metal band formed 2010, named after Wendy O. Williams' "Butcher Baby"; co-lead singers Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey, Century Media albums Goliath through NIGHTBLOOM (2026).

Butcher's Crossing

Butcher's Crossing is a 1960 revisionist western novel by John Williams, also the author of Stoner. Will Andrews, an Emerson-inspired Harvard dropout, joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado Rockies that ends in slaughter, snowbound winter, and a changed world. A 2022 film adaptation starring Nicolas Cage followed.

Butcher's Crossing (film)

Butcher's Crossing is a 2023 American Western directed by Gabe Polsky, adapted from John Williams's 1960 novel, starring Nicolas Cage as buffalo hunter Miller and Fred Hechinger as Harvard dropout Will Andrews; premiered at TIFF 2022, released by Saban Films in October 2023.

Butoh

Butoh (舞踏), also ankoku butoh or "dance of darkness," is a Japanese avant-garde dance theater founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, beginning with the 1959 performance Kinjiki; it debuted internationally at the 1980 Nancy festival and has no fixed style.

Butrint Imeri

Butrint Imeri is a Kosovar-Albanian singer and dancer, born in Lörrach, Germany in 1996, who has topped the Albanian charts since the mid-2010s with club-oriented R&B tracks.

Butsuga

Butsuga (仏画) is the Japanese term for Buddhist painting, in the narrow sense images of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and mandalas, and broadly any painting on a Buddhist subject.

Butt-Numb-A-Thon

Butt-Numb-A-Thon (BNAT), Harry Knowles's annual 24-hour film marathon at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, 1999–2017, mixing secret premieres with cult films for about 200 selected attendees.

Butta Bomma (బుట్ట బొమ్మ) (film)

Butta Bomma (బుట్ట బొమ్మ) is a 2023 Telugu romantic drama, official remake of Malayalam film Kappela, directed by Shouree Chandrashekhar T Ramesh, starring Anikha Surendran, Arjun Das, and Surya Vashistta, released 4 February 2023, streaming on Netflix.