By Richard Stengel

Enter two Shakespearean players.

First: Zounds! I well knoweth, kind sir, that all the world's a stage, but what, pray tell, are these two baseball players doing on it?

Second: Peace, good tickle-brain, thinkest thou the brawny lacketh brain? To denote the 50th anniversary of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, good Master Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres, and his most puissant teammate, Master Tony Gwynn, are posing for a prankish publicity poster to help the theater. Sirrah, they are patrons both.

First: I' faith, methinks I spied Master Garvey among the groundlings to see Paul Winfield play the tragical Moor in Othello on the very eve that the Padres clinchethed the westernmost division of the National League.

Second: Aye, sir, 'tis true, 'tis true. These boys of summer are men of many parts, who must weather the swings and errors of outrageous fortune.

Twenty years ago, he carefully slipped off his shoes before climbing atop a university police car so as not to damage campus property. The roof buckled some anyway. So did the University of California, Berkeley, as Mario Savio ignited the Free Speech Movement, which in turn lit the fires of nearly a decade of campus activism. Last week, graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene of earlier rallies and listened to the activist's condemnation of U.S. policy in Central America. Savio recently returned to his studies and last May got a B.S. in physics summa cum laude from San Francisco State University. Said he of the movement he sparked: "It has remained for me a brilliant moment when, as a friend put it, we were both moral and successful."

From being a hooker with a heart of gold she has become a rocker with a golden voice. Sultry Rebecca De Mornay, 22, the schoolboy's dream who slinked and sashayed her way into Tom Cruise's house and heart in Risky Business, will appear as the rock-singing spouse of a homespun home-run hitter in a film called The Slugger's Wife. De Mornay's fantasy has always been to be a singer. So for the film she practiced long hours with Arranger Quincy Jones, and now several of her songs will be released as singles, at least one as a video. But De Mornay is not looking to switch careers. "Singing is more revealing than acting," she says. "When you're singing you're emotionally naked. It's scary."

During a year of shadowy seclusion, his cantankerous volubility has given way to a quiet, mysterious, world-weary amiability. Looking almost spectral in a rumpled suit, Menachem Begin, 71, left Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem after a successful prostate operation. It was the former Prime Minister's first public appearance since he resigned 13 months ago. When he emerged into the hospital's parking lot, leaning on the arm of his daughter Hassia, Begin softly praised his doctors and nurses and said in Hebrew, "Happy New Year to the people of Israel." He then was driven off to his 3 1/2-room apartment and the renewed sanctuary of silence.