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It's mighty hard to believe in this age of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and "Tool Academy," but television was once seen as a medium for enlightenment, something that could bring genuine class and culture to the common man.

Another week, another double-shot of Dollhouse . These two hours started out tediously, and concluded smashingly.

In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I look back at Paddy Chayefsky's Marty --not the Oscar-winning 1955 film version, but the original live TV drama telecast in 1953 that made a star out of Rod Steiger and has been remembered ever since as a landmark of television's early years.

'The Golden Age of Television' Discuss this story now Several of the most classic plays staged live on the home screen in the 1950s - most of which became feature films later - are compiled in this Criterion Collection set.

The Golden Age of Television - A Criterion release, that I believe was also released on laserdisc, of several TV dramas from the 1950's. It is a must see, if only for Rod Steiger's performance in the original TV version of MARTY.

Once, there was a golden time in the infancy of television, when there were just three channels.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs with Rod Steiger in scene from movie "In the Heat of the Night." In the conclusion of "The Early Show" 's "Time Machine" series, weather anchor and features reporter Dave Price "traveled" back to the year 1967, the year of the "Summer of Love." He returned dressed in suede pants, among other iconic garb of the era, ...

A 1968 film is coming to a stage near you. No Way to Treat a Lady, which starred Rod Steiger and was based on a novel by William Goldman, opens Thursday at the Susan Taylor Theatre at the Amherst high school.

Oklahoma has produced many Hollywood stars. Texas has produced more. But let's say that Oklahoma quality trumps Texas quantity in performers, and then let's see what happens in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday for some real bragging rights.

The impressive recreation of France's Hundred Days has bona fide battle scenes, but Rod Steiger reduces the fearless Bonaparte to a charisma-free crusader Rod Steiger takes a timid bath as Napoleon.

In this business, you lose your sense of awe of the people you cover and meet along the way with each passing day.

In this business, you lose your sense of awe of the people you cover and meet along the way with each passing day.

We've all seen the movie, and we're all familiar with the iconic scene - " when failed boxer Terry Malloy confronts his slick gangster brother, Charley in the back of the cab on its way to delivering Terry to his death for deciding to cooperate with an investigation into racketeering on the waterfront.

In this business, you lose your sense of awe of the people you cover and meet along the way with each passing day.

Budd Schulberg , who wrote one of the most celebrated scenes in movie history - Marlon Brando 's lament in On the Waterfront for what could have been - was passionate about boxing, politics and writing.

Marlon Brando's in the back seat of a taxi with Rod Steiger. One man is a dockworker and former prize fighter, the other his older brother Charley.

Tonight at dusk, D.C.'s National Mall will host a special Screen on the Green showing of the 1954 classic On the Waterfront .

Dear Incredible Inman: Years ago, possibly in the 1950s, there was a series of black-and-white movies, with suspenseful Hitchcock-like twists.

In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching this week: Rod Steiger, left, and Sidney Poitier in 'In The Heat of the Night.' What : "In the Heat of the Night," director Norman Jewison's multiple-Oscar-winning 1967 drama, starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier.

Will it nail time-tested boxing-movie themes on the noggin, gaining traction within a genre crowded with classics? Filming is set to begin July 6 on The Fighter, a biopic starring Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward, the former rock-jawed junior welterweight champion from the Highlands of Lowell.