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Anne Frank posthumously converted to Mormonism

25 February 2012 7:30 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »

Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who rode out most of the Holocaust in an Amsterdam attic before perishing in a Nazi concentration camp, has been posthumously converted to Mormonism, according to reports.

Converting dead people is a common practice in the Mormom faith, which considers itself the fastest growing religion in the world. The church professes that this posthumous conversion gives the dead one last chance to be granted entrance to the Celestial Kingdom in the afterlife.

Still, the church has come under fire before for converting Holocaust victims. Recently, the church apologized for converting the parents of Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

"The Church keeps its word and is absolutely firm in its commitment to not accept the names of Holocaust victims for proxy baptism," the church said in a statement. "It is distressing when an individual willfully violates the Church's policy and something that should »

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Exclusive: This Must Be The Place Clip

24 February 2012 8:43 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

At first glance this clip of Sean Penn's kooky rock star in This Must Be The Place looks like Robert Smith's take on The Straight Story. Which isn't too far from the truth. Any resemblance to the Cure frontman is purely deliberate in Penn's performance - Smith was a conscious jumping-off point for the radically tousled ex-rocker Cheyenne - but the road trip he's embarking on here owes even more to The Boys From Brazil.Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, whose political thriller Il Divo won him a stack of plaudits in 2009, This Must Be The Place sees Cheyenne tap into his inner Expendable to hunt down the Nazi who killed his father. Helping in his unlikely quest is the ever-wonderful Judd Hirsch as a Simon Wiesenthal-alike Nazi hunter and the also-ever-wonderful Frances McDormand as Cheyenne's long-suffering wife. brightcove.createExperiences(); Moments of Lynchian weirdness sit cheek-by-jowl with a »

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Marvin Hier, The Academy Awards Rabbi, Picks His Favorite Films Of The Year

3 February 2012 9:11 AM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »

The First Amendment denotes a separation between Church and State. However, nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is there a clause proposing separation between Church and Oscar voters, which is why Rabbi Marvin Hier is able to be a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. How did this Talmudist and founder of the Jewish human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, find himself voting for the year's best films? According to the New York Times, it all started through his production company, Moriah Films, which produces documentaries on contemporary Jewish history -- the first of which, "Genocide," was narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles. As Hier recounted to writer Michael Cieply: "On his way to the first day's voice work with [Elizabeth] Taylor, Rabbi Hier picked up a salted beef sandwich from a deli, so he could keep kosher. 'Rabbi, what is that delicious smell?' he recalls Ms. »

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