The movie led to a number of requests for appearances, which increased Peek's self-confidence. Dustin Hoffman, who portrayed Babbitt in the film, met Peek and other savants to get an understanding of their nature and to play the role as accurately and methodically as possible. The character of Raymond Babbitt, although inspired by Peek, was depicted as being autistic. In 1984, screenwriter Barry Morrow met Peek in Arlington, Texas the result of the meeting was the 1988 Academy Award winning film Rain Man. Peek lived in Murray, Utah, and spent a considerable amount of his time reading at the Salt Lake City Library and demonstrating his capabilities at schools, with great help from his father. According to an article in The Times newspaper, he could accurately recall the contents of at least 12,000 books. Peek read by scanning the left page with his left eye, then the right page with his right eye. He could speed through a book in about an hour and remember almost everything he had read, memorizing vast amounts of information in subjects ranging from history and literature, geography and numbers to sports, music and dates. He read books, memorized them, and then placed them upside down on the shelf to show that he had finished reading them, a practice he maintained all his life.
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