Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being

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The tape gives us a look into a typical day off for Lansbury: in addition to exercising and stretching, she takes a walk, polishes her Mercedes, goes for a swim, kneads bread, does a bit of gardening, enjoys a cup of tea, and takes a bubble bath where she reveals that she believes "femininity and sexuality go hand-in-hand" and talks a bit about keeping romance alive after menopause. Lansbury did exactly what she said she would do in this book - she answered fans who asked her "What do you do. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Then, there was the Time of Great Confusion when they all seemed to have gone to the mall en masse and bought parachute-fabric jogging suits.

While offering her reader techniques in eating, staying active, and living joyfully, Lansbury also discusses how her personal and professional experiences (especially work on Broadway and Murder, She Wrote) helped her discover how to care for herself and those around her.She left us without writing a full memoir, so we must be grateful for the few stories about growing up in England, balancing professional successes with personal struggles, etc. When I was growing up, women over 60 wore flowered house dresses or polyester twin sets — with a fat string of Barbara Bush beads, if they were being fancy.

If you’re too young to remember, it was a perfect storm of spandex and leg warmers, brought on by Jane Fonda’s Workout Book and Olivia Newton John’s “Physical,” and culminating in every single famous person ever putting out a workout video. Some moments are amusing, such as when Lansbury introduces us to "land swimming", an exercise move she came up with herself, and "moving freely", where she manages to keep a straight face while dancing in a peach-colored jumpsuit to the tape's synthesizer background music. Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being. But I love that she explains that this is what she does, and not necessarily what everyone should do, because that means that she is sensible enough to know that what works for one person won't work for another. I read this in preparation of an "in memorial" episode about Lansbury for my podcast, Advanced TV Herstory.International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Though out of print, it is fairly easy to find an inexpensive copy of this wonderful lifestyle and health guide by Angela Lansbury. This book was never intended to me a workout book or a weight loss book, as some reviewers seem to think.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) bestowed upon her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. For some, she’s a film noir femme fatale, and for others, the voice of the teapot in Beauty and the Beast, with starring roles in Broadway’s Mame and Sweeney Todd somewhere in the middle. Right from a childhood of dancing across Regents Park in a toga, Lansbury had a positive, practical approach to life. Much of the advice seems to be good advice to talk, although there were a few things I disagreed with as something I would want to do, personally.Lansbury's philosophy was to stay positive about each new day: "I take these few moments to focus on the day ahead. All written content, unless otherwise noted as being quotes, has been written and copyrighted by me.

But there's actually a lot of good advice to behold here no matter your age, and the notion of an older star promoting her fitness routine and lifestyle advice to women of her age range was ahead of its time in the 1980s. The content and writing style are so breezy and light it feels like you are sitting down with auntie Angela for a good chat.Also, for such a talent to have not written a high profile memoir, the personal perspectives and stories contained in this work make it essential to any further understanding of her. Seriously, everyone from Marky Mark to La Toya Jackson, and that includes Golden Girl Estelle Getty, the least-memorable kid on The Cosby Show , and — somehow — comedian David Brenner. I think about each demand that will present itself in the coming day, and I visualize myself meeting it easily and well. Angela Lansbury’s career has spanned so many decades that she means very different things to people of different ages. I have been mourning Angela Lansbury, my Hollywood grandmother, these last few months, and having recently turned 40 myself I decided it was a good time to check in on her program for “fitness and well-being” in one’s later years.