Before finding celebrity and success directing movies, Barry Sonnenfeld toiled for eight years as a cinematographer, quietly building a reputation as one of Hollywood's quirkiest and most inventive behind-the-scenes talents. Sonnenfeld enjoyed an auspicious directorial debut with the hit 1991 black comedy The Addams Family, which he followed with a successful 1993 sequel called Addams Family Values. Two years later, Sonnenfeld established his position as one of Hollywood's hottest and hippest young directors when he made Get Shorty, a hilarious satire about the movie industry and its glib, fast-talking hustlers and would-be starlets. However, it was Men in Black, a stylish, action-packed 1997 comedy about space aliens and the secret agents who battle them, that really put Sonnenfeld on top of the entertainment world. Men in Black became the year's top-grossing film and redefined the word "cool," touching off the summer of 1997's hottest fashion craze: a 1960s retro- look that...