● Adele took home more awards yet from yesterday's Brit Awards. And then she pulled an M.I.A. and flipped everyone the bird. [ArtsBeat]
● Look who's back for season five of Mad Men -- it's Betty! "I misbehaved," she says. This is going to be good. [Huff Post]
● Strong woman Miranda Lambert is still not having it with the return of "rage-broccoli" Chris Brown. "I just have to speak my mind, because where I come from, beating up on a woman is never OK," she explained to a Massachusetts audience Thursday, adding that, "that's why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun." He wants a fight? Well now he's got one. [Us]
● Rumor has it that Sasha Baron Cohen is planning to show up at this weekend's Oscars ceremony dressed as his character in The Dictator. But will the academy have it? [THR]
● That Louis C.K. CBS sitcom will for some reason star High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale as "the beautiful and sarcastic assistant to a vintage clothing designer struggling to carve out her niche in New York." [Deadline]
● Kicking off CBS This Morning's new series "Note To Self," now 83-year-old Maya Angelou tells her fifteen-year-old-self to find some beautiful piece of art and then to realize that it was made by some human being, "just like you. No more human, no less." [Huff Post]


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