Britney gets her head read

Britney Spears might be getting her head read. Now some would say that's way over due. Britney has been out on a limb ever since she shaved her head and went completely nuts. You'll probably remember those heady days because she was a constant topic of conversation on late night monologues and in tabloid newspapers. It ended with falling under the control of Sam Lutfi - her personal Osama Bin Laden - and getting carted off on a stretcher to the local nut house.

It also added the catchy phrase 5150 hold to the vernacular. %150 hold is an order committing some one to a psych ward against their will cause they've gone bat shit, and before long we'd be hearing it in relation to other young stars like Mischa Barton; while it continued to hang ominously over the head of Lindsay Lohan for years! When the dust cleared Britney's career was in tatters, she was missing about 40 mill allegedly embezzled by Mr Lutfi, and Lutfi himself was in hiding and dodging a subpoena from spears' family lawyers. Oh yeah and Britney was under conservatorship. That means she was too fucked up to handle her own affairs.

Conservatorship worked out for Britney. It put her father James Parnell Spears in charge of everything. That meant Lutfi and his sleazy ways were a thing of the past. So Britney could concentrate on her music and her health. There were several come backs; the accumulative effect of which was a career revival. Spears may not have been her old self again, but she was on the charts and was a show biz force to be reckoned with again. Not that had to be too good to last.

Just as the Good Ship Britney seemed to be back on course some bad news popped out from the past like an ice berg menacing the Titanic. That bad news came in the form of the aforementioned Sam Lutfi. Seems like he's locked in some sort of a law suit against The Family Spears, and against Brit's Mom Lynn in particular. Lynn wrote a biography and covered Britney awkward stage. Lynn went on to alleged that Lutfi drugged spears, poisoned her mind, cut her off from family and friends, and then squandered the poor befuddled girl's money and ruined her career! All that's pretty well documented in the tabs, but Lutdi still takes exception to having his reputation besmirched. So he's hauled Lynn into court.

Naturally Lutfi says that all this is untrue. Furthermore he says that Britney was a mess before he got any where near her. Call that the "It was like that when I got here" defense. To that end he's hired his very own professional expert UCLA Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Joshua Pretsky to back him up. He also wants Spears to take the stand too. Now her kin folk are agin' it. For one thing they don't like her havin' any truck with that thar Lutfi fella. Fer another they thing the poor gal is just too dang sick and confused to go doin' any testifyin' in a court o' law. So they want Brit excused from a witness call on the grounds of her delicate health and mental condition, for which she still requires an on going conservatorship.

There's just one problem. Britney did a recent interview with Ryan Seacrest (who needs to line up new work now that Simon Cowell is off of American Idol). Pretsky watched the interview and according to him:

"In the Ryan Seacrest interview, which was recorded approximately two months ago, Britney Spears is interviewed at length, and she responds logically and coherently to questions, evidencing logical thinking and mental competency. The edited interviews in the [MTV] video documentary also evidence coherent and logical thinking, responsiveness to questions, and mental competence ... In my opinion, there is good cause to conduct an Independent Medical Examination to investigate the Conservators' claim that Ms. Spears is not mentally capable of testifying, and the claim that she was not mentally competent to enter into a binding contract. ..."

So there we are: her kin folk claim she's too sick and confused to speak out on her own behalf, while the crooks want to hear it from her! Meanwhile the out come of a nasty libel case hangs in the balance. That means there's own one way to resolve it. Britney's got to go to an independent court appointed shrink to find out if she's fit and qualified to speak up for her self, and whether the strain of doing that might send her into another down ward spiral of pink wigs and Starbucks runs that will make Charlie Sheen look like a droopy eyed armless memory. To that end a motion was filed past Monday at Los Angeles Superior Court, asking a judge to order Ms Britney to get herself assessed. Brit's date with the doctor will depend on the judge's ruling. The judge's ruling will depend on whether or not some more urgent celebrity mayhem develops; like another occurrence of Lindsay Lohan, or whether Mel & Oksany decide to have at one 'nother gain! Stay Tuned!!