Die Kim Peek, the real ‘Rain Man’
by ruidongzq on Dec.24, 2009, under Film
Kim Peek, the man who inspired the story of the movie Rain Man (1988), died on Saturday in Utah at age 58 because of a heart attack, as reported by local newspaper The Salt Lake Tribune.
Peek, who suffered Savant syndrome, a pathological condition that is characterized by a set of aion kinah, mental or motor and also comes with certain skills of gifted children, had suffered a respiratory infection in recent days.
“He read all of Shakespeare and the Old and New Testament,” Peek said. Later discovered to be suffering from a malformation of buy aion kinah was missing the tissue that connects the left and right hemisphere, which will cause a failure of the system leak.
And also allowed to retain 98 percent of everything I read, heard or saw on TV, recalls a normal person about 45. His life changed when he met screenwriter Barry Morrow, who wrote the screenplay for aion item, a highly successful film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.
The film won a total of four Oscars, including best picture, best director and best screenplay. The popularity of the film encouraged him to leave his seclusion and spent two decades traveling the world and amaze people with your skills. At the time of his death, it is estimated that Peek had memorized at least 9,000 books.
December 27th, 2009 on 8:47 pm
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