“Friends” star Matthew Perry is sharing the clever way he persuaded Julia Roberts to be in a 1996 episode called “The One After the Super Bowl, Part 2.”

Roberts, who had already been offered the post-Super Bowl role, “would only do the show if she could be in my storyline,” Perry wrote in his “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” memoir. He “had to woo” the Oscar winner, too.

After sending “three dozen roses” and a note, Roberts — who appeared as Chandler’s former classmate Susie Moss — gave Perry an assignment.

“Her reply was that if I adequately explained quantum physics to her, she’d agree to be on the show,” wrote Perry. “The following day, I sent her a paper all about wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle and entanglement, and only some of it was metaphorical.”

He essentially got an A+, as Roberts both said yes to the show and sent over “bagels — lots and lots of bagels.”

By the time that episode was underway, the pair struck up a fax machine-fueled friendship and relationship — which Perry wrote he ended because he felt he “could never be enough.”

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Cardi B and Madonna have officially made amends after the rapper criticized a recent Instagram post from the "Vogue" singer.

On Sunday, the musicians professed their admiration for each other on social media after apparently working things out offline.

"I talked to Madonna," Cardi B tweeted. "It was beautiful. … Have a great day and drive safely yallll."

"I love you @iamcardib !!" Madonna tweeted. "Always have and always will."

The recording artists' latest exchange can be traced to an Instagram post in which Madonna reflected on the 30th anniversary of her provocative coffee table book, "Sex.“

"30 years ago I published a book called S.E.X. ... I also wrote about my fantasies and shared my point of view about sexuality in an ironic way."

She compared the book’s publication three decades ago to the recent release of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's steamy collab, "WAP."

"I spent the next few years being interviewed by narrow minded people who tried to shame me for empowering myself as a Woman," Madonna added.

"Now Cardi B can sing about her WAP. Kim Kardashian can grace the cover of any magazine with her naked (expletive) and Miley Cyrus can come in like a wrecking ball. You're welcome, (expletive)." She punctuated her message with a clown emoji, which Cardi B did not appreciate.

Cardi B tweeted Sunday: "She can make her point without putting clown emojis and getting slick out the mouth. These icons really become disappointments once u make it in the industry that's why I keep to myself."

As of Sunday afternoon, it seems Cardi B's faith in Madonna had been restored. "My feelings was a little hurt because, to me, Madonna's ... no regular degular artist," Cardi B said.

"She's actually somebody that I really look up to. ... She's one of my favorite artists, and I always appreciated what she did. ... She's an amazing feminist woman, and I'm glad that I had a talk with her."

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Musician Carly Simon is mourning the loss of her sisters, who died a day apart last week.

Opera singer Joanna Simon, 85, died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday, and the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Lucy Simon, 82, died of metastatic breast cancer on Thursday.

"I am filled with sorrow to speak about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon. Their loss will be long and haunting," Simon, 77, said Saturday.

"We were three sisters who not only took turns blazing trails and marking courses for one another, we were each other's secret shares,“ she said. ”The co-keepers of each other's memories."

Born to Simon & Schuster publisher Richard Simon and his wife Andrea, all three sisters forged paths in the music industry. Carly and Lucy formed the Simon Sisters in the 1960s and opened for other acts in Greenwich Village folk clubs.

Carly Simon, of course, became the pop star behind "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" and "Anticipation."

Joanna Simon launched her opera career in the 1960s. The mezzo-soprano performed with New York City Opera and Seattle Opera.

She stepped back from singing in the mid-1980s and worked as an arts correspondent for PBS' "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" until 1992. S

The sisters' younger brother, photographer Peter Simon, died in 2018 at 71. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

"I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon," Carly Simon said. "They touched everyone they knew and those of us they've left behind will be lucky and honored to carry their memories forward."

From combined wire services.