The Real Rain Man
February 26th, 2005
I’ve mentioned this in a comment, but it’s worth a front page post: the Times published an article about Kim Peek, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man.
Kim has the staggering arithmetic skills of the Raymond Babbitt character, and can count playing cards. But Kim displays these talents only if he wants to. [Rain Man screenwriter Barry] Morrow recalls, chuckling: “I took him to Reno to see if he could beat the casino. He read and memorised an entire book about gambling, but would not play the tables because he said it was unethical.”