Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Among these are Flåklypa Grand Prix Looney Tunes Tom and Jerry Wallace and Gromit Pee-wee's Big Adventure The Way Things Go Edward Scissorhands Back to the Future Honey I Shrunk the Kids The Goonies Gremlins the Saw film series Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Cat from Outer Space Malcolm Family Guy American Dad! and Waiting. Predating Goldberg the corresponding term in the UK was and still is "Heath Robinson" after the English illustrator with an equal devotion to odd machinery also portraying sequential or chain reaction elements. Personal life
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was born July 4 1883 in San Francisco California to Jewish parents Max and Hannah Goldberg.

Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the BanRube Goldberges' Silver Lady Award 1959. Reuben Garrett Lucius "Rube" Goldberg (July 4 1883 – December 7 1970) was an American cartoonist sculptor author engineer and inventor.