![]() ![]() Simmons starred in The Music Never Stopped, a film version of a Sacks essay (“The Last Hippie”) about a man whose music-loving son was incapable of storing memories.īut it was Awakenings, based on Sacks’ real-life work at a Bronx clinic, that brought Sacks his most widespread acclaim. His book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, featuring tales from his work with patients suffering neurological illnesses and injuries, was the basis for composer Michael Nyman’s 1986 opera of the same name. The London-born Sacks, whose elegant, plainspoken writing allowed even the most jargon-averse readers to breeze through counterintuitive and complex medical case histories, gained his greatest public attention with Awakenings, but other examples of his work crossed over to other media. His death, confirmed by an assistant, was expected: Sacks had written about coming to terms with his mortality in a series of recent dispatches for The New York Times. Oliver Sacks, 82, the brilliant neurologist played in fictionalized form by Robin Williams in 1990’s Awakenings, died of cancer Sunday in New York City. ![]()
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