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Along with Sandi Sissel, Ellen Kuras, Lisa Rinzler and Nancy Schreiber, Maryse Alberti was a groundbreaking female cinematographer at a time when the field was overwhelmingly male (more so than today). Even as more women have steadily entered the field, Alberti still stands out for her versatility and inventiveness. Since starting out in the late 1980s working on a short film with Christine Vachon, Alberti has worked steadily with some of the boldest directors of our time. She's shot a wide range of films, alternating between nonfiction and fiction, with directors including Todd Haynes ("Velvet Goldmine," "Poison"), Darren Aronofsky ("The Wrestler"), Terry Zwigoff ("Crumb"), Michael Apted ("Moving the Mountain," "Incident at Oglala") and Liz Garbus ("Love, Marilyn") and Amy Berg ("West of Memphis"), among others. She received Sundance Film Festival Best Cinematography honors for documentaries...

The names of the new investors are at least as important as the dollar amount, which Aereo says it will use to finance its expansion. Gordon Crawford has a gold-plated reputation among media investors: In his 41 years at Capital Research and Management, prior to his retirement in 2012, he helped to propel the growth of the pay TV industry with investments in companies including Time Warner, Liberty Media, News Corp, Comcast and DirecTV. He also played a major role in the development of Disney and Lionsgate — and, to his regret, the combination of AOL and Time Warner, which he helped to unwind when the merger soured. In the Series C funding, Crawford will be joined by China’s Himalaya Capital Management founded by Li Lu, a leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. (Michael Apted made a documentary of Lu’s memoir Moving The Mountain: My Life In China.) “Aereo experienced...

Nevada (Us), May 8 – Hindus are dismayed and critical of actress-producer Trudie Styler and her husband Sting who apparently think, describe, and fixated on Tantra as just sex.

Styler (Moving the Mountain), 56, reportedly offered revelations about tantric lovemaking by Oscar nominated musician Sting (Cold Mountain), 58, to potential buyers at a New York fundraiser auction on May six. The stories boasting about Sting-Trudie marathon eight-hour tantric-sex sessions have been circulating for many years, but musician-model-actress Coco Sumner (Stardust) sometime back reportedly contradicted the tantric-sex.