Martin Scorsese is being given the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Academy Fellowship at the annual award ceremony next month. BAFTA head honcho Tim Corrie says, "Martin Scorsese is a legend in his lifetime — a true inspiration to all young directors the world over. We are delighted to honor his contribution to cinema history and look forward to paying tribute to him in London on 12 February."  

Kanzi the bonobo knows how to say around 500 words via a keyboard, start a fire with matches and make his own food. He has a leg up on the modern 12-year-old. A family from Canada recently welcomed their 100th grandchild to the family. It is alleged that the children each receive a $1 gift card to the Planned Parenthood gift shop from the grans each Christmas. Gucci Mane and V-Nasty released an album called Baytl. People are calling it the worst hip-hop collaboration since Snoop Dogg teamed up with astronaut Buzz Aldrin to drop “Rocket Experience.”  

Adele has single-handedly revived the music industry’s sales with her sophomore effort, 21. The Brit’s soulful album that featured hits such as “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You” has not only sold more albums than any other album this year, 5.6 million units so far, but more albums than any other studio album since Usher moved 7.9 units of his fourth album, Confessions, back in 2004. Helped on by Michael Bublé’sChristmas (2.4 million) and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (2 million), the music industry is expected to see its first upsurge since 2004.  

Odd Future frontman Tyler, the Creator was arrested Thursday evening for vandalism during the group’s Christmas show. Staff at The Roxy in West Hollywood called the police at around 11:30 p.m. after Tyler allegedly started trashing the sound equipment and throwing it at a sound engineer. Tyler’s crony Frank Ocean sent out a tweet after the incident which read, “dem hoelice yo.” Video here.   

Adam Lambert was reportedly arrested in Helsinki early this morning with his boyfriend, Finnish reality TV star Sauli Koskinen. The two had an argument that quickly escalated into a physical altercation at a bar. The pair were held for questioning by local authorities who are looking into up to four assault charges. The two have since been released and Koikinen blogged about the incident rather promptly. "Fame is not easy. Celebrities are only human. Love is not easy either, but it is forever!" he wrote.   

Universal Studios is now working on the sixth and seventh installments of the Fast and the Furious franchise. The two sequels will be billed as “Part 1” and “Part 2,” sort of like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You know, but terrible. Vin Diesel, in English if you would believe it, told Heat Vision that Chris Morgan’s superfluous script just wouldn’t fit in one movie. Here’s what the Pitch Black star had to say:
“With the success of this last one, and the inclusion of so many characters, and the broadening of scope, when we were sitting down to figure out what would fit into the real estate of number six, we didn’t have enough space. We have to pay off this story, we have to service all of these character relationships, and when we started mapping all that out it just went beyond 110 pages. The studio said, ‘You can’t fit all that story in one damn movie!’ ” Big Diesel and Paul Walker are set to be in the next two films as well as Evan Mendes and Michelle Rodriguez. The sixth film is slated to be released May 24, 2013.  

Gerard Butler had to be pulled from the dangerous waters of the sea while filming the surfing movie Of Men and Mavericks. Butler was taken to a hospital after being rescued by a patrolman. It was determined by doctors at the Stanford Medical Center that Butler was not seriously injured, just dazed. "[Butler] had that 100-yard stare that surfers get after a two-wave hold-down or near-death experience," reports ESPN.