Cross the wild and crazy humor of Steve Martin with the well-calculated mania of Carl Reiner and what do you get? A hyper hybrid movie called The Jerk. About a weirdo white raised by a poor black Southern family, who;hearing his first Lawrence Welk record, hits the road north to find his own kind of music. "All they played when I was a kid," explains Martin, a.k.a. the Jerk, "was blues." Martin mints a fortune by inventing nonslip eyeglasses, loses it when Reiner, in a walk-on as an irate consumer, brings a successful suit in behalf of cross-eyed eyeglass wearers. Complicated? Wait till you see the sequel.

The 400 people who turned out for a party honoring Louise Nevelson got a twofer. It was the famed sculptress's 80th birthday, and she was also being saluted by New York's Municipal Art Society as a champion of urban art. Nevelson steadfastly refused to blow out the 80 candles, saying, "Let them burn and burn and burn." They did.

How about those measurements of Pinup Starlet Bo Derek, 28-19-500,000? Those of course are the dimensions of a poster of Bo kneeling in the surf that has already sold 500,000 copies. Before the poster and her success in the film 10, Derek, 22, was known for her role in Orca, the Killer Whale, in which she was billed below Orca. Then came success. Now in addition to movie and television offers, Bo is out to improve on the dimensions of alltime Poster Star Farrah Fawcett, who measures 28-19-4 million.

Oldtimers called it "the Hot Stove League," the time between baseball seasons when players relaxed and relived their moments of diamond glory. For peppery New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin, it's come to be more a hot shove league, a winter of discontent in which Martin almost inevitably ends up in fractious incidents. This season in Bloomington, Minn., the wiry Yankee got into an altercation with a marshmallow salesman who required 20 stitches to close an ugly gash on his jaw. Martin denied hitting the marshmallow man, but Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner decided enough was enough and fired his manager. It was Martin's second ejection as Yankee skipper, bringing his career total to five.

For New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, it was dramatic deja vu. There stood Wicker in a prison courtyard full of makeshift tents and rebellious prisoners, just as he had eight years earlier when he acted as a negotiator during New York's infamous Attica prison riot. That time, the talks collapsed and 39 people died, most of them inmates but some of them the guards they had taken as hostages. This time, it was all playacting: ABC is filming a two-hour television drama, Attica, based on Wicker's book about the 1971 uprising. Barred from using Attica itself, the film makers threw up a tent city in the yard of the Lima, Ohio, state hospital for the criminally insane so faithful in detail that Wicker shuddered. Faithful also is Actor George Grizzard, who plays Wicker. They were friends at the University of North Carolina; working around the drawling Wicker, said Grizzard, "I'm getting my Southern accent back."

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