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Champagne for Caesar (Harry Popkin; United Artists) has a head start over most Hollywood comedies: an original idea with some satiric bite. But it soon grows painfully clear that the idea has fallen into the wrong hands. Setting out to make radio's giveaway craze look silly, the picture winds up looking even sillier...
...Bite the Hand ... In Atlantic City, jaded residents were warned by their decorous Chamber of Commerce never to "argue with a visitor," were further admonished to answer "Yes, sir," not "O.K., bud," to vacationists...
...moved away to another group in time to hear one gentleman suggest that someone take a bite out of La Voodoo's bare shoulder. But the suggestion was passed up in favor of the hors d'oeuvres, which a tuxedoed waiter was passing around again...
...clock next morning, a cabbie left his cab near the First District Democratic Club to get a bite to eat. He heard water dripping inside the darkened club and called a cop. Just inside the door, they stumbled over Gargotta's body. He had clawed at the Venetian blind as he fell. Slumped in a chair at the desk, facing a big picture of Harry Truman, lay Charlie Binaggio. Someone had put a pistol close to his head, and fired four times. The water, coming from a clogged toilet in the hotel above, dripped on the bare floor...
...Arab bands, and forced to give a head tax. One time Felix almost gave his head, when a mounted Arab ran full tilt at him and "tore my cap off" with his lance. If it wasn't the Moslems it was their bats, which were reputed to bite off the noses of strangers and fly away with them. "Men who have long noses," Felix concluded soberly, "are in greater danger than others...