John Katsilometes passes sage advice from Danny Gans along to fellow impressionist Gordie Brown, playing across the street at Venetian

Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006 | 7:31 a.m.

Danny Gans can do a pretty good impression of a show producer.

The longtime Mirage headliner, who recently celebrated 10 years in Las Vegas, contacted us Monday afternoon in response to a question we posed last week about Gordie Brown.

Brown has set up across the street from Gans at the Venetian. Brown's show of comic impressions, which has been compared to Gans', opened last week in a new 800-seat theater.

In a message forwarded by his manager, Melanie VanBurch, Gans wrote: "My advice to Gordie is to do something unique and different that the Strip has never seen before. For example, while doing his trademark Garry Shandling impression, have a sad clown walk by while three midgets on pogo sticks juggle pink French poodles on a high wire.

"I'd also change the name of his show to Cirque du Gordie." ...

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