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-'''Phillip Raymond Ford''' (born May 31, 1961 in [[San Rafael, California]]) is a stage and film producer, director and entertainer who served most of the 1980s as "honorary straight man" in the legendary San Francisco drag troupe [[Sluts A-Go-Go]].  He is best known as the producer and director of ''[[Vegas in Space]]'', the celebrated cult film starring the Sluts A-Go-Go, which created a sensation at the 1992 [[Sundance Film Festival]], appeared at festivals worldwide, was broadcast on USA Network's ''Up All Night with Rhonda Shear'' and was featured on ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' and the E! Entertainment Television Network.
-== Career ==
-With Doris Fish, Miss X and "Tippi", Ford created and appeared onstage with the Sluts A-Go-Go in a string of notorious theatrical nightclub spectacles including ''The Miss Solar System Pageant'' (1984), ''The Happy Hour Show'' (1985), ''Nightclub of the Living Dead'' (1986), ''Box Office Poison'' (1987), ''Sluts A-Go-Go Still Alive!'' (1989) and ''Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: An All Star Tribute To Doris Fish'' (1990).  He directed such stage plays as ''Phillip R. Ford's Dolls'', 1993's sensational send-up of the 1967 film, [[Valley of the Dolls (film)|''Valley of the Dolls'']], starring Connie Champagne at the On-Broadway Theater in San Francisco (for which he directed eight short films), a remarkably dramatic ''[[The Bad Seed (play)|The Bad Seed]]'' (1987) at [[Theater Rhinoceros]] and the vivid one-woman tribute, ''Simply Stunning – The Doris Fish Story'' (2002) featuring Arturo Galster, based on the life and work of his mentor and collaborator Doris Fish.  As an actor Ford has appeared in San Francisco in the title role in ''Behind the Candelabra – My Life with [[Liberace]]'' (2002) a play adapted by Jennifer Blowdryer from the memoir of Liberace chauffeur/paramour Scott Thorsen.  He also appeared onstage at the Plush Room in ''TenderLoins'' (1994), sang using his own voice as [[Mrs. Miller]] in The Sick and Twisted Players’ ''The Cool Ones'' (1994) and acted in the universally reviled motion picture ''Virtue'' (1999).
-Ford began making films at the age of fifteen and his first professional film short, ''Rollercoaster to Hell'' (1982), was featured on KTVU's ''[[Creature Features]]''.  He has served as a Guest Lecturer in "Contemporary Cinema" at his ''alma mater'', [[San Francisco State University]], from which he holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film Production
-His writing has been featured in the anthology ''Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages'' ([[Manic D Press]], 2005) and in ''Straight to Hell #65 - The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts''.
-== See also ==
-*[[Troma Entertainment]]
-*[[Doris Fish]]
-== Sources ==
-* [http://www.peacheschrist.com/?p=7610 "The Strange Case of Vegas in Space: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of a Midnight Movie Masterpiece" article]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110519175250/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/132956/Vegas-in-Space/overview ''New York Times'' review]
-* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/27/DD18735.DTL&hw=doris+fish&sn=001&sc=1000 San Francisco ''Chronicle'' - 'Generosity amid the glitter']
-== Further reading ==
-* {{cite AV media |people=Phillip R. Ford (director); Ted Helminski (videographer); Phillip R.Ford (writer); Connie Champagne (starring) |date=1993 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/430368140 |title=Phillip R. Ford's Dolls |type=Motion picture |publisher=Playstitute presents |via=[[WorldCat]] |oclc=430368140}}
-==External links==
-* [http://www.vegasinspace.blogspot.com/ The Making of Vegas in Space]
-* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103192/ Phillip R. Ford on imdb]
-* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285832/ ''Vegas in Space'' on imdb]
-* [http://www.troma.com/ Troma Entertainment]
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMkglmC-4L8 ''Vegas in Space'' mash-up video (Italy)]
-* [http://www.devildead.com/critique.php3?FilmID=816 Devildead fan site (France)]
-* [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/17/08d_vegas.html Bright Lights Film Journal ''Vegas in Space'' ]
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-[[Category:1961 births]]
-[[Category:Living people]]
-[[Category:LGBT film directors]]
-[[Category:LGBT theatre directors]]
-[[Category:People from San Rafael, California]]
-[[Category:Film directors from California]]