Sideshow: Sheen's VIP ride in D.C.

As you may have heard, cops in the fine city of Washington kindly gave Charlie Sheen a police escort from Washington's Dulles International Airport to his show at DAR Constitution Hall last Tuesday. He was running a bit late, y'see.

But wait - Who authorized the cops to do so?

At the time, Chas tweeted he was having a blast: "In car with Police escort in front and rear! Driving like someone's about to deliver a baby! Cop car lights #Spinning!" Woo-woo! Look, ma! No mind!

But Commander Hilton Burton, who's in charge of providing police escorts, was less ecstatic. The AP got hold of an internal e-mail Monday - and it seems Burton had no knowledge of the Sheen escapade!

So how does C-Sheen merit a service usually reserved for heads of state? Burton's on the warpath, trying to find out. The department's IA division is investigating.

Sheen's people have paid the city $445 for the escort.

Affairs of kiddie state at White House

"I hope everybody is having a great time here." So said a merry President Obama to an impressive 30,000-strong phalanx (a record high attendance) of cheering children and their parents at the 133d annual Easter Egg Roll Monday morning.

The president addressed the eager children from the Truman Balcony overlooking the South Lawn, says CNN. He was with his wife, Michelle Obama, their daughters, Sasha and Malia, and his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson. Obama then handed the reins to his wife, a woman, he said, who is accomplished in "keeping me in line."

Michelle Obama dubbed this year's event "Get Up and Go," a reference to "Let's Move!", her national anti-child-obesity program.

She introduced Malibu, Calif., singer Colbie Caillat, who sang the national anthem. Other performers set for the day included basketball wiz-team the Harlem Globetrotters and drill and drum corps The Isiserettes. A host of celebs were scheduled to read from children's books at a "Storytime Stage," including Kelly Ripa, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, and thesps John Lithgow and Geena Davis. The president read a passage from Maurice Sendak's classic, Where the Wild Things Are.

The Easter Egg Roll was founded in 1814 by first lady Dolley Madison, who held it on the Capitol grounds. It was moved to the White House in 1878.

Those words reportedly were spoken against the future queen of the United Kingdom, Kate Middleton, by Buckingham Palace guard Cameron Reilly. The British Ministry of Defence tells CNN they have fired Reilly for posting offensive remarks on his Facebook page. (The page was taken offline Monday.) Reportedly, Reilly called Kate a "stupid stuck up cow" and used a four-letter word to describe her. He also used offensive terms to describe Pakistanis.

Meanwhile, London tab the Sunday Mirror says Prince William and Kate will honeymoon on Lizard Island, on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Franklin Shen and John Suh's Sugar Philly Truck, which caters to the Penn campus, will be on the Eat Street show at 8 p.m. Tuesday on Cooking Channel.

"Why would I EVER want to be anyone but me?!" So yells LeAnn Rimes on Twitter in response to an UsMagazine.com story posted Monday. It claims the singer's Friday wedding to Eddie Cibrian was a veritable carbon copy of Cibrian's 2001 nuptials with his first wife, Brandi Glanville

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Among similarities, both Brandi and LeAnn wore Reem Accra. Most damning, Eddie danced the same romantic first dance - to "I Got You Babe" - with both wives. (Dude, how tacky can you get?)

Rimes says she's no Brandi 2.0: "I've got a pretty dang great life that's authentically my own. I'm proud of it!"

Media site Deadline.com reports that Elvis Mitchell has been fired as senior film critic at Movieline.com after only three months over his review of director Duncan Jones' Source Code. (Both Movieline and Deadline are owned by Penske Media Corp.) Mitchell complained about a scene that existed in an old draft of the script, but not in the film itself, leading to speculation that he never watched the picture. Movieline and Mitchell have yet to comment.

Lindsay Lohan, sentenced to 120 days in jail in connection with her jewel theft case, "is fine," her rep tells People. Or is she? TMZ cites Anonymous Sources who say the actor was "blindsided" by the sentence: She expected to go home without so much as a cross word. Seems LiLo claims she's the target of a "witch hunt." LiLo also must serve 360 hours of service at a homeless shelter.

That's not all. For violating parole, LiLo also landed another 120 hours of service. People reports she must work as a cleaning lady for the dead at the county morgue.

Martha Stewart will honor motherhood with two special guests May 8 on Hallmark Channel's Martha Stewart Presents: America's Moms - A Celebration of Military Families With Michelle Obama and Jill Biden. . . . CBS's Katie Couric will have a sit-down with U.K. P.M. David Cameron - at his London digs at 10 Downing Street - for a chat to air Wednesday on CBS Evening News. . . . The United States of Tara's MPD diva Toni Collette and her hub, David Galafassi, welcomed baby son Arlo Robert Galafassi on Good Friday. He joins 3-year-old sis Sage.  

We apologize for incorrectly naming the winner of this year's Athenaeum of Philadelphia's literary award for nonfiction.

The award will be presented at a do on May 4 to investigative journalist Stephen Fried for Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. Fried's previous books include The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, a bio of the late Philly model Gia Marie Carangi.