
("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, the transformation within Jim was virtually instantaneous. 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 his adulthood and his sister Lila exhibited marked nymphomania. Caldwell left much of this task to various family servants. (Jim states while applying for his taxi driver's license that his father's name was Ignatowski-another example of his faulty memory.) Being busy with his thriving urology practices, Dr.

Jim's mother died when he was quite young, leaving Jim's father (later played by Victor Buono) to raise the family. However, he was definitely raised in Boston, Massachusetts as one of three children in a very well-to-do family.

He claimed to have been born in Spokane, Washington, although his often-unreliable memory makes this information quite open to question.
