![]() 12, 1988, and would go on to win four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hoffman and Best Original Screenplay for Morrow. The movie, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, was released on Dec. Peek’s abilities would inspire Morrow to write Rain Man. … He was a megasavant, and there’s probably never been a person like him before,” Morrow shared. “His brain perhaps unique in all of creation, according to the doctors who examined him. The upside-down reader was named Kim Peek, and that moment of happenstance sparked a friendship that would last until Peek’s death in 2009. I said, ‘That’s a pretty good trick, you can read upside down.’ I was kind of goofing with him.” … I noticed he was holding a book upside down. “I peeked in and I saw this lone figure in a room full of books. ![]() “I heard this odd moaning sound coming from a closed room,” Morrow told Yahoo Entertainment. While taking a break from the convention, Morrow went in search of coffee and stumbled upon a curious scene. A young writer, Morrow was best known for chronicling the decision that he and his wife had made to take in and care for an older man with an intellectual disability. In 1984, Barry Morrow attended an Arc convention in Arlington, Texas. ![]()
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