| Eight Hundred SeventySeventh in the Famous People (FP) Series - Reverend Jim Ignatowski |
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Jim claimed to have been born in Spokane, Washington, although his often-unreliable memory makes this quite open to question. However, he was definitely raised in Boston, Massachusetts as one of three children in a very well-to-do family.
An excellent student, he attended Harvard. Then, after a party attended by his roommate Gordon Fog (played by Tom Hanks), his girlfriend Heather introduced him to "funny brownies". After ingesting these brownies, the transformation within Jim was virtually instantaneous.
By his second semester at Harvard, he was writing his term papers in fingerpaint. ("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"). Around this time, Jim changed his last name to Ignatowski, believing it was "Starchild" spelled backwards.
Jim was thrown out of the Democratic Convention in Chicago for stealing decorations, and attended Woodstock ("500,000 people...lucky for them I went or it would have only been 499,999").
He also spent a year of his life making a macrame couch, and was once traded from his commune to another commune for two goats and a Donovan album.
He lived in a condemned building; bought a racehorse he renamed Gary (to erase his "slave name") and kept him in his living room; spent a considerable period of time trying to become the "perfect" cabbie only to spend all his earnings on a wall of TVs.
He thought weekends were nine days long because "we switched to the metric system."
At one point, his last known address was a 1963 Volkswagen. As such, when his father died and left him $3,500,000, his family stepped in to keep him from receiving his inheritance. Ultimately, he was able to get his money, and (in the series' last original episode) wound up buying the cabbies' favorite hangout, Mario's, and renaming it Jim's Mario's. Jim also received a cassette in his father's will. It contained Stevie Wonder singing "You Are the Sunshine of My Life".
Can't you just hear him saying, "There's only one way in and one way out"?
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