Steve Ayers

Discovered living on the streets by L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez, mentally ill musician Nathaniel Ayers has become the subject of a book by Lopez and now a Hollywood film. Morley Safer reports.

Nathaniel Ayers was a a Julliard-trained musician who found himself living on the streets of L.A.'s Skid Row. His story--which brings to light the serious issue of mental illness in the United States--was captured in the book 'The Soloist' by Steve Lopez and in an upcoming movie with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. Recently, The California Endowment, a health foundation, presented a grant to the founders of the Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Foundation as it launches to fund the arts at mental health agencies and arts organizations that serve the mentally ill.

Robert Downey Jr. plays Steve Lopez, a disenchanted journalist who befriends Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a former violin prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard.

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