It looks like former Grey’s Anatomy bigot Isaiah Washington may be getting familiar with the anatomy of a cardboard box pretty soon, since he’s about to be kicked out of his house.

According to the landlord, Washington hasn’t paid rent in five months.  Isaiah claims that he’s been having trouble with his financial guy.  I don’t suppose his money dude is Bernie Madoff, perchance?

Eviction proceedings have been filed, which means Isaiah, his wife and their kids need to find a new place to not pay for.  He will still have to pay the $100,000 in back rent.

And that’s apparently a LOW estimate, and it doesn’t include 2009. $2.7M is what Britney Spears’ estate has paid lawyers since her father took over her life via a conservatorship in 2007.

At least 17 lawyers and firms have had a hand in Spears’ personal or business matters in the 14 months since a judge determined she was not competent to manage her life and multimillion-dollar music empire herself.

The legal work has not come cheap, according to court papers, including an accounting filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles on Monday. The singer’s estate or the trust that holds most of her assets paid at least $2.7 million in lawyers’ fees and costs, and probably much more, during the initial 11 months of the court-ordered conservatorship, the filings show. Many attorneys continue to work on the case, accruing additional fees that will be submitted for approval at a later date.

Attorneys contacted about their fees did not return calls or declined to comment.

The number of attorneys has been a source of amusement and criticism. At a recent court hearing, half a dozen attorneys representing the singer, her father and her estate formed a wall of gray flannel and banker’s boxes that obscured the audience’s view of the judge and prompted a puzzled opposing attorney to wonder aloud, “Which one of you am I supposed to talk to?”

Another opponent sniped then that “Miss Britney Spears is being bled dry by these proceedings.”

Retired probate judge Arnold Gold, who has not reviewed Spears’ case, said that although legal fees may sound large, many bills — such as those from divorce or entertainment attorneys — would be incurred whether the conservatorship was in place or not.

“The mere dollar amount doesn’t automatically mean it is inappropriate,” said Gold, who presided over the settling of Tupac Shakur’s estate. “It’s quite appropriate, particularly in the entertainment field, to incur and have to pay very, very, very sizable attorneys’ fees.”

So, ya know, $2.7M sounds like a lot of money, but it’s really nothing when you consider that these legal proceedings probably saved her life, and certainly saved her career. She had a #1 album and she’s on a sold-out tour — lucrative stuff — and if her father hadn’t taken that conservatorship, she’d probably be dead, and she’d certainly not be creating new albums or touring (you’ll recall that she didn’t manage to do a tour to support Blackout — she barely managed to make a music video for it). Plus I’m pretty sure those fees are tax-deductible. This is probably way less of a big deal than people are making it out to be. I don’t think Britney Spears is pacing around backstage at her sold-out tours mourning a couple mil going to her lawyers.

Ohhhhhhhh this makes me SO HAPPY. You all know what a (not-so-closeted) Trekkie I am, and no series is closer to my heart than The Next Generation. Remember the time that Wil Wheaton signed my boobs? And then we BOTH Twittered about it? (Pics are here.) That was the happiest day of my life. (Apologies in advance to Wil’s wife.)

So I am of course just delighted to hear that basically the entire cast of TNG will be appearing on this Sunday’s episode of one of my other favorite TV shows, Family Guy.

What Goes Down: “There are two stories going on in the episode,” explains David, who appears as a Star Trek geek, er, fan in the convention scene. “One story involves Meg and Brian. Meg finds God. And she finds religion and is giving Brian a hard time for his atheism.”

The second story involves Stewie and the family going to the Star Trek convention. According to Goodman, when Stewie doesn’t get his question answered, “He buys plans for a transporter and beams the cast into his room.”

Who Drops By and Why: Among those appearing as themselves: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn and everyone’s favorite former child star/geek blogger Wil Wheaton. “They were all very game. We had fun playing with who they are,” says David, who says it’s easy to mock sci-fi characters because, “It’s easy to mock things that take themselves too seriously. Star Trek is both wonderful and pompous at the same time. I really am a die-hard Trekkie, but there are moments in Star Trek where it takes itself very seriously.”

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. This is going to make my whole weekend, I just know it.

No, like, literally.

Sources on the set of New Moon are complaining about how stinky he is!

“He stinks. I mean, it’s awful. He never showers, and it drives people on the set crazy,” says a source who Ted Casablancas claims “works in very close quarters” with Rob, which I’m assuming means the man who does his hair or makeup in his trailer.

“He completely reeks,” says another source.

Apparently Robert isn’t a big fan of showering. And is anyone surprised? I mean, does this guy LOOK like he showers? Um, no.

And maybe this explains why Kristen Stewart always has such a sour look on her face while she’s doing publicity for Twilight. It’s not that she’s a stoned, detached bitch like we’d all assumed, it’s just that she’s about to vomit from the stench of Robert Pattinson.

“People telling lies about me to her and all this garbage. I’m really a good person and I have a good heart and just want to work. The only reason I go to clubs is to hear Samantha spin or be normal … I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs and I don’t lie. I love to act and write and be creative, and I want to help people by playing characters that can send a positive message out to whomever may need it … I move forward and I change. Life’s too short not to. If people would just leave my personal life alone—because it’s really not that interesting—then I could land a great role. But all the sicko fans and the noise is so distracting. I just want to live the dream that I’ve worked so hard for since I was 4 years old. I’ve been through a lot in my life. And there are many things I’d like to do to let people know that they just have to be strong … I’d like to have my own charity, do work overseas, be in Oscar-nominated films, write movies, produce movies/shows/videos, design clothes, make music, write books, etc. It’s all possible if people would just stop judging me and accusing me and making me out to be this aloof, spoiled, ungrateful and unprofessional person that I am not and could never be.”

I’ll start off by saying that, although E! Online claims Lindsay gave them an “exclusive” interview, my guess is that this all comes in the form of an email she sent while high. I think this primarily because of the use of the term “sicko.” I think she meant to say “psycho,” and misspelled it, and the folks at E! didn’t catch this, even though they probably cleaned up the spelling and grammar in the email considerably before posting this. This all sounds very much like a drunk-Lindsay email, doesn’t it? It’s EVERYBODY else’s fault that she can’t land roles. She’s COMPLETELY sober and honest, except when she’s sending wasted emails to E!.

Oh, and she just crashed the $100K Maserati she bought like a week ago. Well, she didn’t crash it — she was in the passenger’s seat — but, still. She was apparently “visibly upset” at the scene. So here’s my suspected timeline: Lindsay’s new car gets wrecked. Lindsay gets upset. Life feels unmanageable. She can’t win. Lindsay gets wasted. Lindsay sends email to E! blaming her “sicko” fans and the “noise.” Everybody laughs.

Wendie mentioned it earlier in the day, but our queen Evil Beet is celebrating her birthday today, make sure you give her some Twitter Love or comment on how much you appreciate her in your life! She’s the hardest working woman in show business and it’s important to be nice every once in awhile, if only to switch things up.

In her honor, I’d like to present:
Ten Things You Might Not Have Known about The Evil Beet

1. She once worked for Leroy’s Big House o’ Warplanes. She’s shaken Buzz Aldrin’s hand. And she once complained to me, re: Live Free or Die Hard, that F-35 planes weren’t operational yet, and thus shouldn’t have been in the movie.

2. She’s a dynamo at code and has a degree in computer science. Which is scary given she’s a tremendous writer too.

3. She once had a boyfriend who ended statements with .net. As in “I think I’m hungry… .net.”

4. Her mom is super tiny. But great too. Funny and warm, she’s a poquito dynamo. I’ve asked her to adopt me and I think she’s considering it.

5. Her sister works on an UNDERWATER SPACE STATION!! It’s like what they send into space, but 1,000 feet underwater. Beat that! (Note: I may not have all my facts straight on this one)

6. Her Grandpa Sam is in better shape than me. And you.

7. The bikini logo came from the fact that “Evil Beet” originally became her nickname because of a sunburn.

8. She was named after a Joan Baez song. And she was damn near named Charly!

9. Two years ago she was thrilled when she was doing 1/30th of the web traffic she’s doing now. So you can see world domination isn’t too far off…

and finally:

10. She’s a lovely human and good friend. She puts herself out there daily for everyone to pass judgment on, she’s painfully honest, and she works hard at her chosen profession.

And when it snows her eyes become large and the light which she shines can be seen…

Happy Birthday Beet! You are beloved.

xoxo – lars