Richard Schickel has been reviewing movies--first for <b>Life</b>, then for <b>Time</b>--for exactly as long as Clint Eastwood has been starring in them. He is the author of many books about film and filmmakers, among them <b>The Disney Version</b>, the definitive study of Walt Disney and his works; <b>D. W. Griffith: An American Life</b>, which won the British Film Institute Book Prize; and <b>The Men Who Made the Movies</b>, on the directors of the classic Hollywood age. For more than two decades he has been making television documentaries, mainly about the history of movies. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught film history and criticism at Yale and USC. He lives in Los Angeles.