He served in the United States Army for three years in the 1950s. Phillips attended East High School in Salt Lake City, where he was involved in the arts and plays. Phillips attributes his early exposure to vaudeville through his stepfather as being an important influence on his later career. Cohen moved the family to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he managed the Lyric Theater, another vaudeville house. Phillips was adopted at the age of five by his stepfather, Syd Cohen, who managed the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, one of the last vaudeville houses in the city. His parents divorced and his mother remarried. Phillips was a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) headquartered in Chicago. His father, Edwin Phillips, was a labor organizer, and his parents' activism influenced much of his life's work. Phillips was born in Cleveland to Edwin Deroger Phillips and Frances Kathleen Coates.
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