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

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I read this in preparation of an "in memorial" episode about Lansbury for my podcast, Advanced TV Herstory. Right from a childhood of dancing across Regents Park in a toga, Lansbury had a positive, practical approach to life.

Read all Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being. 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. This book was never intended to me a workout book or a weight loss book, as some reviewers seem to think. 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. 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.She gives very sensible advice, she says wonderful things about hte older women, some of them with humour. Lansbury did exactly what she said she would do in this book - she answered fans who asked her "What do you do. 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. Published in 1990, Lansbury's thoughts on managing her weight, moods, effects of aging and staying mentally healthy are mostly timeless. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) bestowed upon her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

When Positive Moves came out, Lansbury was most recognizable as the star of Murder, She Wrote, which was in the fifth of its twelve seasons. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being. 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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This book is a mixture of class and comfort, avoiding fads and extremes in favor of gentleness, productivity, and practicality. Angela Lansbury’s career has spanned so many decades that she means very different things to people of different ages.

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. 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. The content and writing style are so breezy and light it feels like you are sitting down with auntie Angela for a good chat.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Lansbury's philosophy was to stay positive about each new day: "I take these few moments to focus on the day ahead. 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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.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. 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. Though out of print, it is fairly easy to find an inexpensive copy of this wonderful lifestyle and health guide by Angela Lansbury.