MARRIED. Gilda Radner, 38, high-strung, quirky comedian who skittered from Saturday Night Live to films, most recently The Woman in Red; and her co-star in that film, Gene Wilder, 49, frizzy-haired actor, writer and director who specializes in playing jumpy, self-deprecating shlemiels; she for the second time, he for the third; in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, a tiny hilltop village in southern France. The quiet wedding was limited to a few guests. Noted Wilder: "The world is becoming a giant McDonald's stand, and it's nice to find a quiet village, 900 years old, where the only reason people look at you is because you make a very lovely couple."

SEPARATED. John De Lorean, 59, flamboyant creator of the ill-fated sports car that bears his name, who was acquitted one month ago of federal charges of conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine; and Cristina Ferrare, 34, raven-haired cover girl who is the frothy new co-host of a Southern California morning TV talk show; after eleven years of marriage; in Los Angeles. The split is described as a "trial separation" by De Lorean's attorney, and the pair is currently seeing a marriage counselor. Notes Ferrare's manager, Arthur Gregory: "What you've got is two years of hell and a lot going on in their lives that they never had a chance to address."

RECOVERING. Menachem Begin, 71, former Prime Minister of Israel who resigned last September for reasons that to this day he has not fully explained; after a 90-min. operation to remove his prostate; at Shaare Zedek Hospital; in Jerusalem. Begin is reported to be in good condition.

DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies of this summer's Olympics.

DIED. Carl J. Friedrich, 83, German-born Harvard professor of government for nearly half a century and the author of numerous influential books on Western political thought and philosophy; in Lexington, Mass. A prolific scholar, provocative teacher and constitutional expert particularly noted for pioneering works on totalitarianism (An Introduction to Political Theory), Friedrich served as an adviser to the American military governor of West Germany after World War II, helping shape the constitution of the Federal Republic.