The great American icon Mariah Carey was chosen to unveil the Jury Duty Postage Stamp yesterday in New York. Wow, her career is in high gear. Watch for her tomorrow at your local county fair, judging a pie eating contest. After which she’ll eat the winner.

Big celebrities get all kinds of preferential treatment in this world. They don’t have to pay for anything, they don’t have to make reservations, and they can generally get out of messes with a little charm. But there is at least one equalizer: Jury duty. Brad Pitt learned this lesson Thursday as he had to march down to the courthouse just like the rest of us slobs.

Okay, maybe Brad’s jury duty wasn’t exactly like the rest of ours. His limousine got to park in the employee parking area, he got to wait in a special room until it was time to meet the judge and attorneys, and he had lunch brought in to him. But other than that, he had to sweat it out like everyone else.

Lucky for Mr. Pitt, the defendant in his would-be case decided to plead "no contest" to his DUI charges and all the jurors got to go home with time served. Angelina must be very relieved.