Todd McCarthy, the author of Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox, is Variety‘s chief film critic and coeditor of the classic anthology King of the B’s: Working Within the Hollywood System. He also wrote and codirected the award-winning Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography and won an Emmy Award for writing the documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
