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Quibbles & Bits

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. . . Hey dudes, better decide: Nelson Ent. is mulling over a passel of titles for its sequel to “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” Among ‘em: “Bill & Ted’s Weird Journey,” “B & T’s Bogus Journey,” “B & T Go to Hell” and . . . “The Second Coming of B & T.”

. . . What a come-on: TV ads for Showtime tout “My Stepmother Is an Alien” as a “top box-office hit.” In fact, it was one of the biggest stinkers of 1988.

. . . The Christmas spirit: Those rubber dividers at some supermarket checkout stands are now carrying printed advertising for “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”

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. . . We wish we’d been at this pitch meeting: In the soon-to-shoot low-budgeter “Space Case,” a chief psychologist for a mental hospital on the planet Niobe VI discovers that the alien rabbits of Plaxon VII are planning an invasion of Earth--to steal the carbon monoxide they need to stay alive!

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