Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who has devoted his life to combating intolerance, says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "should speak to his own church and say they should stop" performing posthumous proxy baptisms on Jews.
When they perform posthumous baptisms on Pope John Paul, Anne Frank and President Obama's mother, they cross the boundary between their lives and someone else's.
When Newsweek magazine asked Romney if he personally had performed posthumous baptisms on anyone, author Jonathan Darman wrote, "he looked slightly startled and answered, 'I have in my life, but I haven't recently.' The awareness of how odd this will sound to many Americans is what makes Romney hesitant to elaborate on the Mormon question".
In 1994 Philip Glass created a posthumous collaboration with the Cocteau film, suppressing the Auric and performing his own music live to Cocteau's images.
It mimicked the late King of Pop's famous dance moves while performing Slave to the Rhythm, a song from Jackson's posthumous album Xscape.
Bruno Walter, a close friend of Mahler's who conducted the Ninth's posthumous premiere in 1912, performed and recorded the piece with Vienna Philharmonic in 1938.
It mimicked the late King of Pop's famous dance moves while performing Slave to the Rhythm, a song from Jackson's new posthumous album Xscape.
It is a move that restricts any posthumous exploitation of the actor's image, be it through using CGI to impose him into a film or advert or creating a live hologram of him performing standup.
Her father received a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for "Symphony RiverRun," and a posthumous Grammy award for "Cello Concerto," performed by Yo-Yo Ma, in 1995.
Five years after the King of Pop died, he returned in hologram form to "perform" a tune from his new posthumous album, "Xscape".
