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Swoosie Kurtz (; born September 6 , 1944 ) is an American ___MASK4___ . She is an Emmy Award winner and two - time Tony Award winner . ___MASK90___ fiction ( often shortened to SF , sci - fi or scifi ) is a genre of speculative fiction , typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic ___MASK90___ and technology , space ___MASK81___ , time ___MASK81___ , faster than light ___MASK81___ , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life . ___MASK90___ fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations , and has been called a " literature of ideas ." It usually avoids the supernatural , and unlike the related genre of fantasy , historically ___MASK90___ fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in ___MASK90___ - based fact or theory at the time the story was created , but this connection is now limited to hard ___MASK90___ fiction . The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago , Illinois , United States located at 454 North Columbus Drive ( 455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address for the building ) in downtown Chicago ' s Magnificent Mile area . Completed in 1989 , the 37 - story building reaches a height of 627 feet ( 191 m ). NBC ' s Chicago offices , studios , and owned - and - operated station WMAQ - TV are located here as of 1989 and on October 1 , 1989 , WMAQ - TV broadcast their first newscast at 10 pm that evening at their new home , NBC Tower with the then - weeknight news team of Ron Magers , Carol Marin , John Coleman and Mark Giangreco . Later , Telemundo O & O WSNS - TV since their 2002 purchase by NBC . Formerly its former ___MASK74___ sister WMAQ / WSCR was located here . NBC ' s former Chicago FM property , WKQX and its sister station WLUP will move their studios to the NBC Tower in the summer of 2016 . James Arness ( May 26 , 1923  June 3 , 2011 ) was an American ___MASK65___ , best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the ___MASK43___ series " Gunsmoke ". Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five separate decades : 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series , then in "" ( 1987 ) and four more made - for - ___MASK43___ " Gunsmoke " films in the 1990s . In Europe , Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the western series " How the West Was Won ". He was the older brother of ___MASK65___ Peter Graves . A ___MASK43___ network is a telecommunications network for distribution of ___MASK43___ program content , whereby a central operation provides ___MASK47___ to many ___MASK43___ stations or pay ___MASK43___ providers . Until the mid - 1980s , ___MASK43___ ___MASK47___ in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks . Many early ___MASK43___ networks ( such as the BBC , NBC or CBC ) evolved from earlier ___MASK74___ networks . The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American ___MASK95___ broadcast ___MASK43___ network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building ( formerly known as the GE Building ) at Rockefeller Center in New York City , with additional major offices near Los Angeles ( at Universal City Plaza ), Chicago ( at the NBC Tower ) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center . The network is part of the Big Three ___MASK43___ networks . NBC is sometimes referred to as the " Peacock Network ", in reference to its stylized peacock logo , which was originally created in 1956 for its then - new color broadcasts and became the network ' s ___MASK98___ emblem in 1979 . Warner Bros . ___MASK43___ ( WBTV ) is the ___MASK43___ production arm of Warner Bros . ___MASK45___ , itself part of Time Warner . Alongside CBS ___MASK43___ Studios , it serves as a ___MASK43___ production arm of The CW ___MASK43___ Network ( in which Time Warner has a 50 % ownership stake ), though it also produces shows for other networks , such as " Shameless " on Showtime , " The Leftovers " and " Westworld " on HBO ( though Time Warner also owns HBO ). As of 2015 , it is the world ' s largest ___MASK43___ production company measured by revenue and library ( along with Sony ' s Sony Pictures ___MASK43___ ). Its most notable TV shows include " Friends ", " ER ", " The West Wing ", " Smallville ", " Supernatural ", " The Big Bang Theory ", and " Full House ". The Big Three ___MASK43___ networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast ___MASK43___ networks in the United States : ABC , CBS and NBC . Beginning in 1948 until the late 1980s , the Big Three networks dominated U . S . ___MASK43___ . Lawrence G . " Larry " Cohen ( born July 15 , 1941 ) is an American film ___MASK21___ , director , and ___MASK87___ . He is best known as a B - Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films  often containing a police procedural element  during the 1970s and 1980s . He has since concentrated mainly on screenwriting including the Joel Schumacher thriller " Phone Booth " ( 2002 ), " Cellular " ( 2004 ) and " Captivity " ( 2007 ). In 2006 Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris ' " Masters of Horror " TV series ( 2006 ); he directed the episode " Pick Me Up ". Warner Bros . ___MASK45___ Inc . ( known professionally as Warner Bros . Pictures , often referred to as Warner Bros . and Warner Brothers and abbreviated as WB ) is an American ___MASK45___ company , film studio and film distributor that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank , California . It is one of the " Big Six " major American film studios . Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 highrise ___MASK95___ buildings covering between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City . Commissioned by the Rockefeller family , it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan , spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987 . Norman Macdonnell ( November 8 , 1916 , in Pasadena , California  November 28 , 1979 , in Burbank , California ) was an American ___MASK74___ and television producer best known for co - creating ( along with John Meston ) and producing the Western ___MASK74___ and television series , " Gunsmoke ". He was also a long - time executive producer for the television series " The Virginian ". A situation comedy , or sitcom , is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode . Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch , and stand - up comedy where a ___MASK57___ tells jokes and stories to an audience . Sitcoms originated in ___MASK74___ , but today are found mostly on television as one9 of its dominant narrative forms . This form can also include mockumentaries . William Conrad ( September 27 , 1920  February 11 , 1994 ) was an American ___MASK65___ , ___MASK21___ , and director whose career spanned five decades in ___MASK74___ , film , and television . Comcast Corporation ( formerly registered as Comcast Holdings ) is an American global telecommunications conglomerate that is the largest broadcasting and cable ___MASK43___ company in the world by revenue . It is the second - largest pay - TV company after the AT & T - DirecTV acquisition , largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States , and the nation ' s third - largest home telephone service provider . Comcast services U . S . residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia . The company ' s headquarters are located in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011 , Comcast is a producer of feature films and ___MASK43___ programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over - the - air and cable ___MASK43___ broadcast . Love , Sidney is an American sitcom which aired on NBC from October 28 , 1981 until June 6 , 1983 . The series was based on a short story written by Marilyn ___MASK77___ ___MASK23___ , which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled " Sidney Shorr : A Girl ' s Best Friend ", which NBC aired on October 5 , 1981 , a few weeks before the series premiered . The premise involved a gay man and his relationship with a single mother and her five - year - old daughter whom he invites to live with him . Tony Randall stars as Sidney Shorr , with Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan and Kaleena Kiff as her daughter Patti . The series was produced by Warner Bros . Television . George Eckstein ( May 3 , 1928 -- September 12 , 2009 ) was an American ___MASK93___ and ___MASK43___ producer whose career spanned three decades , from the early 1960s through the late 1980s . Eckstein was a producer of many popular ___MASK43___ programs such as The Invaders and The Name of the Game , in addition to penning the scripts of many others , including Gunsmoke and Cannon . From the late 1970s onward , the bulk of Eckstein ' s producing work was on several made - for - TV movies and specials , with a year ' s stint as ___MASK8___ of the NBC series Love , Sidney in the midst . Eckstein was born in Los Angeles , California , the son of Ruth ( née Wexler ) and George Eckstein , a salesman . He was married to ___MASK4___ Ann Morgan Guilbert from 1953 until their divorce in 1966 , and had two children with her , agent / acting instructor Nora Eckstein and ___MASK4___ Hallie Todd . He later remarried ___MASK4___ Selette Cole , and had one daughter , Jennifer . He died of lung cancer in Brentwood , Los Angeles . Dominic Frontiere ( born June 17 , 1931 ) is an American ___MASK13___ , ___MASK52___ , and jazz ___MASK44___ . He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the first season of the ___MASK43___ series " The Outer Limits ". Kaleena Kiff ( born October 23 , 1974 ) is an American ___MASK4___ , producer , and director . Kiff is best known for her roles in the sitcoms " Love , Sidney " and " The New Leave It to Beaver ". The Invaders is an American ___MASK90___ fiction ___MASK43___ program created by Larry Cohen that aired on ABC for two seasons , from 1967 to 1968 Dominic Frontiere , who had provided scores for " Twelve O ' Clock High " and " The Outer Limits ", provided scores for " The Invaders " as well . Chicago ( or ), officially the City of Chicago , is the third - most populous city in the United States , and the fifth - most populous city in North America . With over 2 . 7 million residents , it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States , and the county seat of ___MASK88___ County . The Chicago metropolitan area , often referred to as Chicagoland , has nearly 10 million people and is the third - largest in the U . S . Gunsmoke is an American ___MASK74___ and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston . The stories take place in and around Dodge City , Kansas , during the settlement of the American West . The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon , played by William Conrad on ___MASK74___ and James Arness on television . When aired in the UK , the television series was initially titled Gun Law , later reverting to " Gunsmoke ". Tony Randall ( born Aryeh ( Arthur ) Leonard Rosenberg ; February 26 , 1920May 17 , 2004 ) was an American ___MASK65___ , ___MASK21___ , and director , best known for his role as Felix Unger in the ___MASK43___ adaptation of Neil Simon ' s play " The Odd Couple ".