The Wake Up with Bret & Julie's Julie Tristan has all the entertainment news that you'll need, and she might even give you a "Hot Guy Fact of the Day". Today's "Hollywood Hashtag" stories include...
Matthew Perry gets candid about his drug use . . . and how it almost killed him . . . in his upcoming book "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing". He was given just a 2 percent chance of living when drugs caused his colon to burst four years ago. Matthew ended up with a colostomy bag for nine months.
Cookie Monster recently Tweeted that his real name is Sid. And while it isn't actually news, it rocked a lot of people who'd never heard it before. Cookie Monster first revealed his real name in a 2004 song called "The First Time Me Eat Cookie".
John Waters once saw Angela Lansbury at a New York City sex club in the '80s. But it wasn't uncommon to see celebs there. He said, "Everybody went. She wasn't doing anything."
Some angry horror fans are signing a petition, calling on the makers of "Halloween Ends" to start over and make a better movie. Fans did the same thing with the final season of "Game of Thrones". It didn't work.
Chucky the killer doll rated Halloween candies with a game of "Eff, Marry, Kill". Some of the candies he'd eff are Peanut M&Ms, Jolly Ranchers, and Snickers. And ones he'd marry are Skittles, Kit Kats, and Smarties.
Also a bunch of horror memorabilia is hitting the auction block in November, like a Jason Voorhees hockey mask from "Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan" and Freddy Krueger's glove from "Freddy vs. Jason".
The producers of "Cobra Kai" are working on a prequel series about Mr. Miyagi. Ralph Macchio says, "It's a project that I'm cheering for personally, because [Pat Morita] always wanted to do more with where Miyagi came from."
Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning are co-starring in "The Equalizer 3", 18 years after they appeared together in "Man on Fire".
After injuring his ribs in a fall onstage last month in St. Louis, Post Malone rolled his ankle during a show in Atlanta Tuesday night. He said, "If my dance moves aren't 100 percent, you gotta forgive me tonight."
Drake was paid $100 to open for Ice Cube back in 2006 before he made it big. He shared the flyer and said, "This is for anybody getting 100 a show right now . . . keep going."
Anna Faris says "Ghostbusters" director Ivan Reitman slapped her backside really hard during the making of the 2006 movie "My Super Ex-Girlfriend". Since it was years before #MeToo, she didn't know how to respond.
Reba McEntire says the lockdowns in 2020 helped strengthen her relationship with her boyfriend, actor Rex Linn. They'd just started dating and were stuck in different cities. But they talked five times a day on FaceTime and Zoom, and it helped "create a bond and intimacy" without getting physical.
And Garth Brooks got several tattoos when he was in Ireland last month, and they're all dedicated to the people he loves most. "I have the five women of my life. My mom, Miss Yearwood, and my three daughters."
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