The Daily Mail is running some excerpts from The Little Red Riders Book, listing the backstage demands of various talented or at least well-known performers. It’s pretty entertaining stuff, in spots. (Maybe not quite as entertaining as the infamous Iggy Pop concert rider, but few people can aspire to that level of greatness.) You have to skip over the stars whose requests were almost irritatingly reasonable (The Police—organic food, cough mixture; Nirvana—macaroni and cheese) to find the real gems:

• Lily Allen (presumably before she cleaned up her act) required “A bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Four bottles of champagne. Twelve packets of Monster Munch (pickled onion flavour). A puppy (for the night only)”;
• Sammy Davis, Jr., upheld the honor of the Rat Pack by insisting on “an assortment of groovy chicks”;
• Jennifer Lopez tops the ridiculous diva list by demanding the following: “White flowers. White tablecloths. White curtains. White candles. White couches. Lowwatt lightbulbs. Coffee to be stirred counter-clockwise. Skittles.” The “coffee stirred counter-clockwise” demand puts her narrowly ahead of Mariah Carey’s request for a personal attendant to dispose of her chewing gum.

The rest of the list is well worth checking out. And, to answer the inevitable question: Yes, the Hoff does require that a lifesize cardboard cutout of himself be present in his dressing room.