How to pronounce “bete” in English

Not Betelnut-- it was called Xanadu's, in Berkeley, on Fourth Street.

It was called "Belle and Bete," and it was a very different movie.

So each country has its own sort of bete noire, as far as tourists.

What if you know that Mike is just like Betelgeuse, the left shoulder of the great hunter Orion?

Magnificent, luminous star Betelgeuse is.

And so when this painting, which is known as "Belle and Bete," came to me, it came in a context where

Everybody's probably familiar with the most famous red supergiant, which is Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion.

So I always imagined what it would be like to get into a spacecraft and go to Betelgeuse and actually look at a red supergiant up close

It was actually at a pan-Asian place, called Betelnut.

I said, if he's stealing focus, it's because-- in French, we say "une bete de scene," "a beast of stage."

So when we say an actor is stealing focus from the other actor, we call him a bete de scene.

And what you don't see in that clip is-- what follows is what I call a south London curse because Belle does put Bete right, in no uncertain terms.

Yeah. Yes. Hasn't, at some point in your life, your parents or relatives have said to you, betee, all we want you to be is happy.