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Huntley nabs first victory of seasonThe Courier NewsJunior Kim Peek was the top runner for Judson in 22nd place (20:23) in the 5K race. On the men's side, the team finished seventh out of 13 teams. ...and more »
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Kim Peek recordaba el 98% de los 12.000 libros que habĂa leĂdo, leĂa dos páginas en ocho segundos (usaba cada ojo para leer una página distinta) y apenas tardaba una hora en memorizar un libro, reteniendo de un modo preciso e instantáneo informaciĂłn sobre datos histĂłricos, geografĂa, literatura o cualquier tema. Su capacidad de almacenar informaciĂłn era virtualmente ilimitada. No entendĂa lo que retenĂa porque no necesitaba recordarlo ni pensarlo, simplemente estaba ahĂ.
3 min video on Kim Peeks affect on the field of science especially in the field of psychology. 2 references from Focus Productions Documentary "The Real Rainman" and Quote from Professor Darold Teffort
Video editado de Kim Peek en el programa "Mentes Brillantes, Sindrome de Savant, Superdotados" para la materia de Pensamiento y ComunicaciĂłn
Discussion with the real Rain Man (Kim Peek) then we go out rampagen, smashing our faces in the night.
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Sometimes even The Situation, can't handle the situation, situationally speaking. Directed by: Brett Gursky Written by: DJ Lubel Produced by: Jake Avnet The Situation ... Michael Sorrentino Snooki ... Nicole Polizzi Pauly D ... Pauly DelVecchio Editor ... Tom Costantino 1st Assistant Director ... Bob McKeon Director of Photography ... Kieran Murphy B Camera Operator ... Gary Chan Sound ... Jesse Ing
Kim Peek died on 19 December 2009, aged 58. Kim died of a heart attack. Kim was well known as the real rain man, the person that the film was based on. Kim and his father Fran were simply inspirational. Kim Peek was an extraordinary human being. His phenomenal reading and memory abilities are exhibited on other youtube clips. His engagement with people, his inherent decent humanity, was also astonishing. A truly stellar human being. If you look around in youtube I think that you will find his father Fran to be at least as engaging as Kim. What a man! The outstanding love and devotion given by this man are beyond inspirational. The men were integrally connected - as Kim said of his father we share the same shadow. Enjoy!
The Next Reporter (blog)Kim Peek, the Original "Rain Man," Dies at Age 58About - News & Issues (blog)Kim Peek, the amazing autistic savant upon whom the character of the Rain Man was based, has died at age 58. Originally diagnosed as mentally retarded, ...Kim Peek, Inspiration for 'Rain Man,' Dies at 58New York TimesFamily eulogizes Kim PeekDeseret NewsBlog this on:TIMEFiredoglake (blog) -Examiner.com -StandardNetall 54 news articles »
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...Peek, the savant who was the inspiration for Barry Levinson's original screenplay and film, Rain Man, died last week at age fifty-eight. The New York Times obit limns the many extraordinary abilities and skills this man possessed. Kim Peek, the savant who...
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...factory worktable. She was fired. In 1979, Sally Field re-created the moment in the movie "Norma Rae." She won an Oscar. Kim Peek, 58, was a disabled savant who memorized the entire Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare. Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for...
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Kim Peek Was Born on November 11, 1951 in Salt lake City Utah USA and he was severely mentally retarded he is recommended to put him in institution and froget it about it and he memorized his first book when he was 8 months old and he is a very smart man and he is the member of the Church of Jesus Christ the Lader day saints and Kim Peek was raised by Fran Peek that is Kim Peeks Father and Kim Peek Spent most of his time at the Salt Lake City Public library and he put those Books Upside Down ...
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...This remembrance first appeared on NPR's Two-Way news blog . Kim Peek, 'The Real Rain Man' Remembered by Howard Berkes Kim Peek was buried in December during a light snowfall in Salt Lake City. If he had still been alive, he probably would have been able to...
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...his family was initially reluctant to share. Described once as the "most prodigious intellectual mega-savant in the world," Kim Peek was eulogized Tuesday not only as the inspiration for the hit movie "Rain Man," but for his role in teaching a vast worldwide...
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...was the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman in the movie "Rainman" has been laid to rest. Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Family and friends said goodbye to Kim Peek Tuesday.Ă‚Â He died from cardiac arrest more than a week ago at the age of 58. Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Ă‚Â Peek was sometimes called a mega-savant.Ă‚Â ...
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...Peek, the real-life savant who inspired Dustin Hoffman's portrayal in Rain Man, has died of a heart attack at the age of 58, leaving a legacy of hope for parents and their disabled children. Peek was born with a damaged cerebellum, and the nerves that normally...
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About.com: Classic Movies
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Locals remember 'Rain Man'Cache Valley DailyFuneral services are being held today for 58 year-old Kim Peek of Murray, the savant who gained fame when he inspired the Dustin ...
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Kim Peek, RIP [Duncan Currie]National Review Online (blog)During a presentation Mr. Peek gave at Oxford University in England, after he fielded students' questions about the Lusitania and about British monarchs, ...
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...a presentation Mr. Peek gave at Oxford University in England, after he fielded students' questions about the Lusitania and about British monarchs, a young woman stood and asked him, "Kim, are you happy?" "I'm happy just to look at you," Mr. Peek said....
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Man Who Inspired Movie 'Rain Man' DiesAHN... "Rain Man," owes much of its success and accolades to Kim Peek, the man whose life inspired the movie. Peek died earlier this month at age 58. ...
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...fields in human knowledge and the arts, and give GPS-like directions for any city of the US. And yet, with all these powers, Peek— who died a few days ago—wasn't able to understand poetry or conceptualize ideas. It was all about the memory and his extraordinary...
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...Kim Peek, the savant who inspired the film Rain Man, died from a heat attack on December 19. He was 58. From the New York Times (image from Wikmedia Commons): “He was the Mount Everest of memory,” Dr. Darold A. Treffert, an expert on savants who knew Mr. Peek...
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...life; he was famous before the 1988 film and his celebrity endures. The movie did, however, wholly transform the life of Kim Peek, the now 50-year old man who inspired the original script by Barry Morrow and whom Hoffman shadowed and befriended in 1986 so...
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KIM Peek was one of those rare human beings who achieved worldwide fame despite relatively few people knowing his name or even what he looked like.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1951, it was clear from the outset that Peek was a touch unusual
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The passing of the real "Rain man," Mr. Kim Peek is indeed cause for reflection. The man recalled over 98% of the content of 9000+ books. What a wonderful example of the potential for Mother Nature's extremes. Autism can be seen as Mother Nature's ongoing attempt to improve our species. Environment is clearly one of the triggers for her experimentation. And our special kids are evidence that she's at work. As parents of kids with autism, we're the first line of science. We need to pay close ...
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...When Barry Morrow won Best Screenplay Oscar for Rain Man, he gave the precious statuette to the original Rain Man, Kim Peek, who had inspired the screenplay. The savant who would become world famous after the movie won four Oscars died last week, leaving the...
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Kim Peek, Inspiration for 'Rain Man,' Dies at 58New York TimesBarton Glasser/Deseret News, via Associated Press Kim Peek gained wide recognition for his extraordinary memory. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in “Rain Man. ...
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Actor Jennifer Jones dies at 90Tampabay.comKim Peek, 58, the man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie Rain Man, died Dec. 19 after a major heart attack in the Salt Lake City ...
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...Street" and "227," died Dec. 17 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was previously known as Alaina Reed-Hall. Kim Peek, 58, the man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man," died Monday of a heart attack suffered Dec....
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...behaviour he studied. He was not a savant, like Kim, but instead suffered from autism. For a quarter of a century, however, Kim Peek has been regarded as the film's inspiration - and speaking at length for the first time since his son died in his arms last...
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...Kim Peek passes away — the inspiration for Rain Man — the most likely diagnosis was a genetic condition called FG syndrome, not autism * Attractive — just another word for average — we may automatically seek out average proportions as a matter of biological...
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KIM PEEK stands in front of an image of his brain.
ETHAN HILL
Editor's Note: The main text of this story, originally published in the December 2005 issue of Scientific American, is being made available in light of the recent death of Kim Peek.
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...Peek, the man who was the inspiration behind Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, has died. According to The Guardian, the 58-year-old suffered a heart attack in his hometown of Salt Lake City, UT. Peek was often labelled a 'megasavant' for his incredible...
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...Peek was an autistic savant who inspired the movie Rain Man. Peek died on December 19, and below I’ve posted a five-part documentary about him, featuring neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, among others. If you haven’t seen Rain Man, you probably should, but...
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guardian.co.ukKim Peek, a man who inspired more than 'Rain Man'msnbc.comKim Peek, the man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man," remains the most interesting and confounding individual I ever ...Kim Peek, the 'Real Rain Man' diesExaminer.com'Rain Man' inspiration dies at 58UPI.comA window on savant syndrome closes with the death of Kim PeekScientific American (blog)Deseret News -eMaxHealth -Family Research Council (blog)all 587 news articles »
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...reports that the remarkable Kim Peek, inspiration for Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1988 film Rain Main, has passed away. Despite clear and disabling difficulties in day-to-day living, Peek accumulated an encyclopaedic knowledge of numerous subjects areas,...
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...thought it prudent to take a moment to recognize not an actor, but a real person who inspired a classic film. Kim Peek, the man who was the real-life basis for RAIN MAN, passed away this weekend from a heart attack at the age of 58. The role won Dustin Hoffman...
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SALT LAKE CITY - The man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man" has died. Kim Peek was 58. His father, Fran, says Peek had a major heart attack Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray. Peek was a savant with a remarkable memory and inspired writer Barry Morrow when he wrote "Rain Man," the 1988 movie that won four Academy Awards. Fran Peek said his son met Morrow at a convention in the early 1980s and the writer was taken with Peek's knack for retaining everything he heard. Morrow wrote the script, and the movie went on to win Oscars for best film and best actor for Dustin Hoffman, whose repetitive rants about being an excellent driver and the "People's Court" about to start were a hit with moviegoers. Although the character was technically fictional, Fran Peek said his son was every bit as amazing as Hoffman's portrayal of him. And Kim's true character showed when he toured the world, helping dispel misconceptions about mental disabilities. "It was just unbelievable, all the things that he knew," Fran Peek said Monday. "He traveled 5500 miles short of 3 million air miles and talked to nearly 60 million people — half have been students." In his later years, Peek was classified as a "mega-savant" who was a genius in about 15 different subjects, from history and literature and geography to numbers, sports, music and dates. But his motor skills were limited; he couldn't perform some simple ...
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...Peek, the man who was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning movie Rain Man, died on December 19 of a heart attack. The 58-year-old Peek was an autistic savant, whose amazing mental abilities became apparent as early as age 16 to 20 months, when he was able...
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...his popular podcasts. His buddies Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington (!) will be doing voices as well; the show debuts February 19. [via THR] 5. Kim Peek, the savant who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Main, has died at 58. [via Slashfilm]...
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...kneeling behind a shelf stack in the market to smell his bottom. In the sad news department, the real life Rain Man, Kim Peek has passed away at 58. Glenn Beck is like a carnival freak show. Media Matters points us to this clip, where it was an interesting...
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...Center in L.A. on Jan. 31, also will feature Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, and Maxwell. Tidbits 'n' pieces Kim Peek, 58, a savant from Utah who inspired Dustin Hoffman's character in the '88 Oscar winner Rain Man, has died of a heart attack,...
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...Dec. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Kim Peek, the original Rain Man, who had inspired the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man," died in Salt Lake City, Utah, according to news reports on Wednesday. Â Â Â Â Peek suffered a heart attack on Saturday and was dead in a hospital in Salt...
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...whose extraordinary genius for mental retention inspired the Oscar-winning film 'Rain Man' has died, his parents confirmed. Kim Peek (58) died of a heart attack in Utah on Saturday morning after suffering from serious upper respiratory problems in recent weeks,...
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Irish Independent
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...putting him an institution, saying his condition meant he would never walk or talk. "We refused," his father recalled. Kim Peek grew into a shy adult whose life trajectory was set to change unutterably with a chance meeting in the early 1980s at a convention...
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...Peek, the man who inspired the lead character in the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, died last weekend. He was 58. Peek, who was known to have a remarkable memory memorising up to 12,000 books, died on December 19. He could read two pages in about 10 seconds,...
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TVNZ
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...like Kristen Stewart, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep are racking up hits and beating male actors at the box office. Kim Peek, the real Rain Man whose almost unimaginable powers of memory were coupled with severe disabilities and who inspired the Oscar-winning...
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The Wrap
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...Barry Morrow when he wrote Rain Man, the 1988 movie that won four Academy Awards and took ÂŁ100million at the box office. Kim Peek stands on the steps at the Salt Lake City Library in Salt Lake City. Peek, the man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning...
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