EXPECTING. Farrah Fawcett, 37, buoyant, blond-tressed actress who in recent years has essayed taxing TV roles (Murder in Texas, this week's The Burning Bed) to overcome the memory of her most famous part as one of the original Charlie's Angels; and Ryan O'Neal, 43, brawny, boisterous actor (Love Story, Paper Moon), her steady companion for the past four years; their first child; in February.

MARRIED. Sigourney Weaver, 35, commanding, lissome film actress (The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghostbusters) currently starring on Broadway in Hurlyburly; and Jim Simpson, 28, theatrical director and Yale Drama School professor; both for the first time; in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

SEEKING DIVORCE. Cristina Ferrare, 34, sleek fashion model and chatty new co-host of the TV talk show A.M. Los Angeles; from John De Lorean, 59, financially troubled automaker who was acquitted seven weeks ago on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. The image of staunch wifely devotion during the four-month trial, Cristina is seeking custody of the children and a share of her husband's disputed assets.

SENTENCED. Harry Claiborne, 67, chief judge of Nevada's U.S. District Court since 1978 and the first federal judge convicted of a felony committed while on the bench; to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for filing false tax returns for 1979 and 1980; in Reno. Claiborne has vowed not to resign and to fight any attempt to impeach him.

HOSPITALIZED. George Wallace, 65, Alabama Governor who has been confined to a wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1972; for treatment of a chronic urinary-tract infection, an ailment common among paraplegics; in University Hospital in Birmingham.

DIED. Walter Alston, 72, calm, temper-cooling, pennant-collecting manager who from 1954 to 1976 guided the Dodgers, in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, to seven National League titles and four World Championships; of heart disease; in Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered "the best in baseball." Noted Tommy Lasorda, Alston's successor as manager: "If you couldn't play for Walt, you couldn't play."