Geraldo’s sleuths: Hans Laetz, an assignment editor...

Geraldo’s sleuths: Hans Laetz, an assignment editor at KTLA (Channel 5), received a phone call Tuesday from a New York-based producer of “Now It Can Be Told,” Geraldo Rivera’s TV show.

“She was young, I could tell,” Laetz said. “She asked for the names and addresses of anyone in L.A. who might have been affected by the riots. I said, ‘Do you have an L.A. phone book? Well, open it up. There’s your list.’ ”

Public peel: Frederick’s of Hollywood announced it’s offering a $1,000 reward for the return of Madonna’s bustier , which was stolen from the store’s Bra Museum during the rioting.

We have a suggestion for Frederick’s. Save $1,000 and ask the Material Girl to donate another one. It’s not like the bustier is a priceless artifact--even if the publicity is.

Marketing the riot (cont.): As early as Saturday night, Billy Holmes saw people in Santa Monica sporting T-shirts that said: “My Mom Went Looting in South-Central L.A. and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.”

Everyone was inconvenienced in some way: One woman drinking at the bar in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel over the weekend revealed that she was staying at the hotel though she’s a resident of the city. While holed up in her house, she said, “I had to cook two nights in a row--and that’s enough.”

Return to abnormalcy: One sign that life in many parts of L.A. is resuming its usual pace was the report that a radio station received from one motorist who exulted that traffic between the Civic Center and Long Beach on the 710 Freeway was “over the speed limit” nearly the entire way.

Driving her crazy: It goes without saying that, among dating couples in L.A.’s car culture, automobile etiquette would be a factor in a relationship.

Listen to “Turned Off,” who wrote Dear Claudia in the L.A. Downtown News:

“I recently went out on a date with a fellow who was constantly yelling at other drivers from his car. He was either swearing at them, or correcting their driving. This was so embarrassing. . . . It was our second date and the first time I was in a car with him. . . . “

Mikhail, meet Gene: Among the notables lunching with Mikhail Gorbachev at the Arco Plaza the other day were Mayor Bradley, Sheriff Sherman Block and TV evangelist Gene Scott. Scott, who aided Arco boss Lodwrick Cook’s efforts to raise funds for the burned-out Central Library a few years ago, showed a bit of his iconoclastic side: He wore his name tag upside down.

Vulgar keyboard?Speaking of bad language, Gladys Foreman of Hollywood was surprised to see an ad in the Recycler listing a typewriter that appears to have a dirty mouth. (Or is its character simply “cursive”?)

It was academic if you owned a pit bull: In all the excitement, we hope that owners of Chihuahua dogs didn’t overlook the offer of the For Pets Only Store in Los Feliz to groom that breed of hound free of charge for Cinco de Mayo.

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Still, another irony: Sunday is the first day of National Police Week.