Brit Brit's $25,000 escort and other famous differences

A couple of stories this morning tell us what we never could've figured out -- the rich and famous really are different from the rest of us. Wha?

How else can you explain the $25,000 tab that the Los Angeles Police Department racked up escorting poor Brit Brit from her hilltop mcmansion to another involuntary stay in a place with burly orderlies and green Jell-O? Public safety and paparazzi concerns, sure, but how likely is it that the rest of us could divert the LAPD's attention away from drive-by shootings, home invasions and drug dealing in order to deal with our meltdown du jour?

Read all about it here, because you know you can't get enough of this freakshow (and no, neither can we).

On the jump: witness protection program and immigration status!

Check in with our brother blog, Past Deadline, to see Ray Richmond's idea for a Britney Emergency Recovery Initiative. Hint: it involves an isolated island, Gavin de Becker, and a whole boatload of pork rinds.

Another way the glitterati separates itself from waiters and dishwashers? They can get green cards a lot easier, the AP tells us, especially if they're English-speaking stars of the big screen from favored nations (being from a predominantly Muslim country, not so good).

Fun fact: Tommy Chong, a Canadian by birth and musician before he hit paydirt bong-loading with Cheech Marin, set up shop in the U.S. with the help of Motown. Who knew?