QUIBBLES & BITS

. . . The L.A. Civic Light Opera’s selling its June revival of “Cabaret” as a nostalgia musical--”Return to a time when nothing was taken seriously and life was a cabaret.” Nothing, of course, except the rise of the Nazis and virulent anti-Semitism, both prominent in the story line.

. . . Last week’s cover story in our own Los Angeles Times magazine ends with Marlee Matlin and other Oscar nominees “listening for the words ‘the envelope please,’ ” then “strain(ing) to hear the rip of the opening envelope.” Matlin, we should mention, is hearing-impaired.

. . . And about Tuesday’s daily TV log listing for the Bravo channel: Gianfranco Manganotti and Ivo Vinco did not “star in Puccini’s ‘Turandot’ from Rome’s Arena di Verona.” (They played supporting roles--and the Arena di Verona is in Verona !)

. . . Someone was actually trying to raise money at the American Film Market for a script called “Frankencar,” about this half-human car that . . . oh, never mind.