This unseen aspect is commonly understood by the other characters as the consequence of long-term drug abuse. Jim is a genius with a childlike mind and a huge heart. Around this time, Jim changed his last name to Ignatowski, believing it was "Starchild" spelled backwards. ("The typewriter seemed so impersonal", he explained.) Jim would become part of the counterculture, and was ordained as a minister with the Church of the Peaceful ("investigated and cleared of all charges"). His term paper on " Plutarch's Lives" was forgotten-in fact, by his second semester at Harvard, he was writing his term papers in fingerpaint.
After ingesting these brownies, Jim was instantly transformed. After a party attended by his roommate Gordon Fog (played by Tom Hanks), his girlfriend Heather introduced him to " funny brownies” and persuaded him to partake.
An excellent student, he attended Harvard, where he was a member of the Harvard Glee Club. The father's absence seemed to affect all the Caldwell children in some way: Jim was an extremely uptight and humorless person before he became a drop-out his brother Tom remained humorless and somewhat mean-spirited throughout adulthood and his sister Lila exhibited marked nymphomania. Caldwell left much of this task to various family servants. (Jim states that while applying for his taxi driver's license that his father's name was Ignatowski-another example of his faulty memory.) While busy with his thriving urology practices, Dr. Jim's mother died when he was young, leaving Jim's father (later played by Victor Buono) to raise the family. He was raised in Boston, Massachusetts as one of three children in a well-to-do family. He claimed to have been born in Spokane, Washington, although his often-unreliable memory leaves this information open to question. A gentle soul, Jim, in his own words, was "the living embodiment of the Sixties." His most noticeable character trait was his extremely "spaced out" behavior, a result of extensive drug use. The Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski is a fictional character in the 1970s television series Taxi.
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