Downtown entertainment is forgotten but not gone, something you also could say about the "Bottom's Up" revue resurfacing at Fitzgeralds.

Breck Wall's revue of blackout comedy sketches has been a recurring fixture in Las Vegas since 1964. It disappears for long stretches but always manages to reopen. This time it debuts Sept. 8, replacing "Steve Connolly's Spirit of the King."

Connolly's wry, self-aware Elvis tribute closes Sept. 4 after more than three years in Fitzgeralds' enclosed lounge. He started out as a paid casino loss leader, singing to taped tracks, but found it harder to sell tickets and pay a band after the hotel switched to a rent-the-room policy in 2005.

Producer David Holiff, formerly of Jay White's Neil Diamond tribute at the Riviera, recently stepped up to work with Connolly and is helping him try to relocate the show.

Wall is self-producing and starring in "Bottom's Up" with longtime comic sidekicks David Harris and Sue Motsinger. "It's like our family," Wall says of the revue last seen as a Flamingo afternoon show in 2004. A trio of dancers is interspersed with the burlesque-style sketches.

Wall has been meeting with a fellow Texan, writer-performer Billie Duncan, to record his memoirs for a book project. Tentatively titled "I Ran into a Breck Wall," the book will detail his career and friendship with Jack Ruby, the club owner who killed John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Perhaps Fremont Street could adopt a "Septuagenarian Alley" format. Performing at the nearby Four Queens is one of the few people who can say he has been in Las Vegas longer than "Bottom's Up": comedian Pete Barbutti, who came to town with The Millionaires in 1960. The Las Vegas veteran has been holding forth in a 200-seat venue since June.

Originally paired with Neil Diamond's percussionist King Errisson, Barbutti now shares the Four Queens stage with Bobby Ruffin's tribute to the Drifters. The show is produced by Astor Communications and Entertainment.

Those two offerings remain the only ticketed shows downtown while the Golden Nugget and Lady Luck are remodeling and the Plaza sits dormant. But the outdoor Fremont Street Experience keeps up the fight. Jeff Victor -- who left On Stage Entertainment, the "Legends in Concert" production company, last April to head the downtown attraction -- has met with pop artist Shag (Josh Agle) about doing an animated film for the overhead street canopy. ...

The "Shag With a Twist" show based on Shag's artwork is now at the Harmon Theater. The show hasn't moved. It's just that with four titles under the roof of the Krave nightclub, management decided to go with a more theatrical name and distance the ticketed shows from the gay and alternative nightclub format that remains in place on Fridays and Saturdays. ...

The Los Angeles Times reports that Jason Sudeikis, formerly of The Second City cast at the Flamingo Las Vegas, is the front-runner to take over the fake news "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live." Sudeikis performed with the local cast for two years before becoming first an "SNL" writer, then a cast member. His wife, Kay Cannon, was in the same Las Vegas cast and is now a writer for Tina Fey's upcoming fall sitcom "30 Rock." ...

"X Girls -- The Show" may be moving back inside the Aladdin, where it started in 2002 before moving to the V Theater in the adjacent Desert Passage mall. And the show would again be topless once it's back under the actual roof of a casino. (Well-placed tape and pasties were the rule at the shopping mall space.)

Aladdin officials say there are "some deal points to be worked out." But the idea is for "X Girls" to go into a new, temporary performance space in the mezzanine created by the casino's ongoing remodeling project. ...

"Bottom's Up" might be smart to go with an evening time slot this time around, because the afternoon show scene is getting crowded. The latest addition could be Jeff Trachta, taking the Rio slot once held by ventriloquist Ronn Lucas. Trachta is a former soap star who headlined a Christmas revue at the Rio in 2003. ...

Barry Manilow made national news with the announcement of his upcoming hip surgery; perhaps it was the irresistible lure of the opportunity to make "hip" puns. Now the Las Vegas Hilton announces the singer added four shows Dec. 27-30 to make up for some of his canceled fall dates. Manilow returns to the Hilton Nov. 8. The casino is selling tickets for shows in the first four months of next year. His "Greatest Songs of the Sixties" album is due Oct. 31.

Mike Weatherford's entertainment column appears Thursdays and Sundays. Contact him at 383-0288 or e-mail him at mweatherford@reviewjournal.com.