Oscar was looking good on his 80th birthday Sunday night, and he owes a lot of it to Fresno State graduate Roy Christopher, the TV show's set designer. See a picture of it here.

The Bee's TV columnist, Rick Bentley, did an interview with Roy Christopher for his column last week. Take a look at it here.

In a story by Barbara Vancheri of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Christopher said, "You know this is all hydraulics, these tubes moving within tubes, and telescoping in and telescoping out and you might have someone standing inside one of the tubes and then it flies out, revealing the person."

The set was designed for change, in color and with Oscars and tubes that can appear and disappear.

Spectacular and congratulations, to Dr. (Thanks to his well-deserved, honorary degree from Fresno State) Christopher.

Want to know more? Here are a few links to look at:

http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2007/05/HonoraryDocsBackgrounder.htm

http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2008/01/roychristopher2008oscars.htm

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2008/08.01.10a.html