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...Testament story of Esther--strong narrative, cool heroine. But that it should become the No. 1-selling children's video in America as reinterpreted by wisecracking vegetables is a little discombobulating. We are, after all, talking about kids' least-favorite food group. And the Bible. But that sales spike was no freak occurrence. VeggieTales, a video series populated by moralizing computer-animated vegetables, is America's best-selling direct-to-video series, having sprouted 28.5 million tapes since...
That same year also marked the third and final time that Spike Lee offered a seminar in screenwriting to undergraduates at the College. Kessler took the seminar, and by the time the seminar was over, Lee had offered Kessler a summer internship to work with him in Brooklyn...
...Then Spike Lee read Kessler’s thesis...
...spent eight months working on the screenplay. The script never got produced, but now Kessler’s resume had Spike Lee’s name...
...went on to produce and write for “The Sopranos” on HBO, where his work was nominated for three Emmy awards. He has also just created his first television drama series entitled “Jamaica Ave,” which will be directed by Spike...