Kim Peek, The Rain Man: A Brief Biography
By shantanu, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, December 22, 2009
Salt Lake City- Kim Peek, the man who was the inspiration behind the film “Rain Man”, passed away of a sudden heart attack on Saturday. He was 58 years old at the time of his death. According to the reports of his father, Fran Peek, he had suffered a major heart attack in the morning of Saturday. He was taken to a hospital in Murray where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The emergency team tried to revive him, but to no avail. The end of Kim Peek, the Rain Man’s biography marks the death of a man who was a medical marvel, and one who inspired a whole lot of people.
The most important aspect in the brief biography of Kim Peek, the Rain Man has to be the rare medical condition that he was afflicted with. Kim Peek was blessed with a great, photographic memory that turned him into a storehouse of information, to all practical purposes. He had been very well conversant in almost 15 different fields. However, his condition led the scientists to term him as a “mega-savant”. As baffling as it might sound, despite his huge mental prowess, he could not perform simple everyday tasks like dressing himself or arranging things.
The turning point in the brief biography of Kim Peek, the Rain Man, was when he was chosen as the subject of the film, “Rain Man”. His character was played to perfection by Dustin Hoffman. The director of ‘Rain Man”, an Oscar winning movie, was touched and intrigued by the remarkableness of the Kim Peek, the Rain Man.
