This pair met attending a small theatre school in New York. Mercurial Bryce, just 18 and already sober in AA, had been a child actor who’d experienced OD’s and drug/alcohol induced psychotic breaks, all by his mid teens. A little older, Mark was the brooding, misunderstood artist whose ever present Irish whiskey helped him romanticize his situation. If Bryce’s alcoholism was volcanic, Mark’s was a slow burn that would, regardless, turn into a fiery blaze. Recognizing that drinking was jeopard...