"I've been studying acting two months now, but I don't know what people will think of me. I haven't been exposed that much." Not to movie audiences, perhaps, but Stripper Fanne Foxe's screen debut in Posse From Heaven may change all that. In the film, the former Tidal Basin Bombshell portrays a stripper-turned-archangel who dances, sings and otherwise soothes the shaky ego of a bumbling cowboy "in a very human way." If everything comes off as expected, a Fanne Foxe biography will be published this fall to coincide with Posse's premiere. Though Fanne says that she and former Mentor Wilbur Mills are still the best of pals, the Arkansas Congressman is likely to pass up his protegee's first flick. "Wilbur doesn't go to movies or plays," says Fanne, "because he falls asleep."

There is a paunch at the midsection, and the rubbery face has some new creases; but Ray Bolger, 71, showed the same old ease on his feet as he rehearsed for his first movie role in more than a decade. Cast as a retired vaudevillian making a comeback, Bolger has teamed up with Jack Lemmon in a film version of John Osborne's 1958 play, The Entertainer. "I like the part and admired Jack Lemmon so much that I thought I could afford to take second billing," said Bolger, who has kept his steps by combining two hours of daily dance practice with golf, fishing and a string of one-man shows. Returned Jack: "He's sensational. I admire everything about him except his golf swing."

Summoned suddenly from a local prison to the "command post" of Uganda's dictator, General Idi Amin Dado, gaunt British Lecturer Denis Cecil Hills, 61, received the welcome news from

"Big Daddy" himself. "You are now free," Amin announced grandly. For three months Hills had faced death for writing in an unpublished manuscript that the mercurial Amin was a "village tyrant." As the price of Hills' release, British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan flew to Kampala last week for a state visit. Beamed the huge general as Hills and Callaghan stood by: "This proves I am not mad."

"I've always believed it best to admit one's mistakes as quickly as possible," explained Cher Sarkisian Bono Allman, 29. With that, the vampy TV star announced that she was suing for divorce from Rock Singer Gregg Allman, 27, whom she had married just nine days earlier. The shaken Alhnan, who began sharing Cher's Holmby Hills mansion several months ago, blamed the breakup on false tales about his fondness for drink and drugs, including one report that he had collapsed with his head in a plate of spaghetti. "A lot of people didn't want to see her marry me," he said tearfully, "so they planted rumors and lies about me. Cher worried that the publicity would affect her audience. I love the lady. I wouldn't mess up her life for anything."

Local disc jockeys reacted by playing Silhouettes (on the Shade) and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. For Randy Agnew, son of former Vice President Spiro Agnew, there was little to smile about. According to Baltimore police, Timothy Frye and his wife Susan were watching television at about 2:30 a.m. when they noticed someone peeping in through a window. After phoning the police, said Frye, he ran outside, scuffled with the intruder and held him down until the law arrived. Agnew, 28, claims that he was only searching for the apartment of a friend. Unconvinced, police charged him with trespassing "for the purpose of invading the privacy of the occupants of the building," then released him on his own recognizance.

New thoughts from Chairman Mao:

The Watergate crisis was simply the result of "too much freedom of political expression in the U.S.," the 81-year-old Chinese Communist leader told visiting Thai Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj. "What's wrong with taping a conversation when you happen to have a tape recorder with you? Most people in America love playing with tape recorders ... Please tell him [ex-President Nixon] I still think of him." -

And now ... Godfather III. With nine Academy Awards and more than $100 million already earned by The Godfather and its sequel, Director Francis Ford Coppola has plans for still another encore. NBC has just commissioned him to rearrange the saga of the Corleone crime family into four feature-length television shows. The nine or ten hours of tube time will be constructed from re-edited and de-violenced Godfather footage plus some three hours of film that was cut from the first two movies. "I will have to relook at all the material and will see it this time as a totally new movie for the television medium," said Coppola. "It is like a whole new writing, and it just might be great." So too will be NBC's payment to Paramount Pictures for the Godfather rights: an estimated $15 million.

"Gentlemen, please move aside; it's for your own safety," warned Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. Then, her warning unheeded, the unceremonious 66-year-old monarch wobbled off, leading 15,000 bicyclists through the start of a four-day tour of the pastoral province of Drenthe. With a breathless lady-in-waiting close behind, the Queen pedaled at a smart pace for ten full miles before completing the first lap of the tour. "Let Queen Elizabeth of England beat this one," exulted the event's sponsor, Cycle Manufacturer Wim Breukink. Said Juliana on descending from her bike: "Phew!"

"I left New York to get away from muggers in leather jackets, and now I find muggers in tweeds with leather patches," grumbled Comedian Godfrey Cambridge. In a hearing before the Connecticut real estate commission, Cambridge identified the "muggers" as three real estate agents who last year sold him a $125,000 home in Ridgefield, Conn. Although part of the purchase price had been intended for repairs, he said, almost none had been made. Instead, a faulty heating system kept him cold in winter, toilets malfunctioned and an overheated clothes drier melted his wardrobe. Once, while admiring the view from the picture window, he fell through the rotted floor up to his knees. Said the unsmiling comedian: "I was displeased."

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