Jean Stapleton, R.I.P.

Neil Genzlinger wrote a nice tribute  to Jean Stapleton, most famous for playing Edith Bunker on the 70s television show, All in the Family, who died earlier this week at the age of 90:

But what set Ms. Stapleton’s work in the show apart was her ability to create a character who was not imprisoned by her own daffiness. There have been plenty of female airheads on television: bikinied bimbos, empty-headed housewives, batty old broads. But only a few have been able to make the kinds of transitions from the comic to the dramatic that were asked of Ms. Stapleton in “All in the Family.”