A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran more or less on gut instinct—film schools, audience research departments and seminars on screenwriting were not yet de rigueur. Today the standard i
Award-winning novelist, screenwriter and playwright Bill Mesce, Jr. turns, for the first time, to short fiction in a gallery of pieces ranging from the familiar (an encounter at a winter-whipped commu
Mesce, who worked in corporate communications at HBO and is a screenwriter and author, provides an insider's view of the history of the cable channel and how it impacted television. He describes the d
