How would you like to never have to pay for luxuries, as long as they're connected to your employment?

Well, if you're a rich and famous movie star that's what one can expect in the way of perks.

Now, if you have to be away from home for business purposes it's reasonable to expect a few perks such as expense money for decent meals.

But suppose your favorite restaurant happens to be in another country? No problem if you're Tom Cruise, who had dinner flown in every day by private jet from, The Bombay Brasserie, in London when he was in Italy.

Damn, I'm thrilled when the pizza guy arrives from a mile away, but then I've always had low standards.

How about having several separate trailers to accommodate your hairdresser, et al, while on the set? That's what Sharon Stone has written into her movie contracts, on top of her $14 million stipend, and other top shelf perks.

Check out her actual list of necessities, replete with her lawyer's handwritten notes at "The Smoking Gun" website.

Jennifer Lopez has a fetish for the color white, and demands a white room, white flowers, white tablecloths, white drapes, white candles, white couches, white lilies, and white roses, wherever she goes. She also brings along several chefs and her dressing rooms must be re-decorated whenever the mood strikes her.

Britney Spears demands a private phone wherever she goes and anyone who puts an unidentified caller through has to pay a fine of 3,000 dollars. I wonder if she ever heard of cell phones, and how did she arrive at that particular figure?

Christina Aguliera once booked two entire floors of Dublin's most expensive and famous pub just for a quiet drink with a friend.

Jeez, my wife and I always get seated near the kitchen where the dirty dishes are dumped. I thought we were special because the food gets to us quicker, and hotter.

Beyonce will not allow herself to be photographed from the back. Now I want to see what the hell she's hiding.

Elton John insists that his rooms be decorated with large bouquets of colorful flowers, as long as they're not chrysanthemums, lilies, carnations or daisies. I never thought of him as discriminatory.

Mariah Carey refuses to use stairs. Maybe someday she'll learn how to use them.

Jim Carrey owns his own Gulf Stream airplane as an investment. He requires that the film company charter his plane for transportation or background. He has it written into his film contract.

I guess $20 mil per pic isn't quite enough.

Ricky Martin insists on orange tinted lighting to highlight his tan.

Leonardo DiCaprio demanded new clothes daily on the set of Gangs of New York. Why then, does he always look as if he slept in his clothes?

The backstreet boys require 24 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches on every tour. These guys seem to be a bit more in line with my expectations.

Marilyn Manson demands a box filled with kitty litter in his dressing room just in case the bathrooms back up.

Most people with this phobia would ask for a porta-potty, but somehow kitty litter seems appropriate for him.