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

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All written content, unless otherwise noted as being quotes, has been written and copyrighted by me. In truth, the book’s real value is the bit of light it casts into Lansbury’s life and upbeat personal philosophy. 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. 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.

Her art shaped my life so I am definitely here for good and the old lady just got 96 (I think) so I assume she knows what's up. com) is a for-profit, socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online, matching each purchase with a book donation. She gives very sensible advice, she says wonderful things about hte older women, some of them with humour. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.One star lost for typical anti-fatness to be expected from a “fitness book”, particularly of its era. 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.

Read all Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being.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. Delacorte Press released the book in 1990, following on the heels of Lansbury’s successful VHS workout tape of the same name that capitalized on the celebrity workout craze of the 80s and 90s. For a ’70s kid like me, she was notable for being the witchy woman in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a Disney film that climaxes with live-action suits of armor coming to life and fighting off Nazis. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Lansbury's philosophy was to stay positive about each new day: "I take these few moments to focus on the day ahead.

Yes, the Murder She Wrote star followed in the footsteps of Debbie Reynolds by releasing a workout tape presumably aimed at women of a certain age, although the moves Lansbury demonstrates can benefit anyone. 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. Angela Lansbury’s career has spanned so many decades that she means very different things to people of different ages. 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.

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. Her clothes suited her age, but they were something that older women’s clothes hadn’t been for decades: they were becoming.

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. It was so well-liked by senior citizens that it pretty much single-handedly changed the way older women dress.This is a delightful and quick read that one is able to do with the author's voice just saying the words in your head. Though out of print, it is fairly easy to find an inexpensive copy of this wonderful lifestyle and health guide by Angela Lansbury. 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. Ultimately, I found the great actress’s account of her fitness and diet regime a little thin/idiosyncratic, though I did mark a vegetable soup recipe I might try later this week.