Richard Schickel has been reviewing movies for TIME Magazine since 1972. Previously, he served as the film reviewer for LIFE Magazine. Mr. Schickel has written thirty-one books and produced, written, and directed a similar number of television documentaries, mainly about film history. His books include Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity; D.W. Griffith: An American Life; The Disney Version; His Picture in the Papers (about Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and the beginning of the modern celebrity system); Schickel On Film, and Brando: A Life in Our Times, and Clint Eastwood: A Biography. His latest book was Matinee Idylls Reflections on the Screen. His memoir Good Morning Mr. Zip Zi Zip will be published early in 2003. As a TV producer he has made 14 biographies of great directors, the latest of which was about Woody Allen and Samm Fuller premiered in the summer of 2002. Among his other titles are Shooting War, a history of cameramen in World War II, and The Harryhausen Chronicles, a biography of the special effects artist. He is presently doing a documentary about Charles Chaplin for Warner Bros. and writing a book about the director Elia Kazan. Mr. Schickel received his degree at the University of Wisconsin and lives in Los Angeles. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the winner of the British Film Institute Book Prize and the Maurice Bessey prize for his lifetime achievements in film criticism.