In Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip, the celebrated film critic and biographer turns to a story of his own life - as a child growing up in a comfortable Milwaukee suburb during the years of World War II. Richard Schickel's engaging memoir is not a fashionable tale of child abuse, but it does chart the growth of one addiction: a boy's attraction to the movies, which was to become a lifelong passion.Mr. Schickel explains how the movies during those war years showed us fantastic possibilities and made them plausible - but in so doing they profoundly misled us about the nature of the war, our soldiers, our government, and the home front. Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip is Mr. Schickel's effort to set the record straight about that view of the war promoted by our popular culture (including the inflated idea of the "greatest generation"), and he does it by illuminating the meaning of wartime films set against the background of his own growing up. His unsparing honesty and clear-eyed criticism lead us to a new perspective on the World War II experience, both on the home front and abroad.