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

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Her clothes suited her age, but they were something that older women’s clothes hadn’t been for decades: they were becoming. 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. 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 content and writing style are so breezy and light it feels like you are sitting down with auntie Angela for a good chat.

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. 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. 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 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.

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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

In truth, the book’s real value is the bit of light it casts into Lansbury’s life and upbeat personal philosophy. Right from a childhood of dancing across Regents Park in a toga, Lansbury had a positive, practical approach to life. This book is a mixture of class and comfort, avoiding fads and extremes in favor of gentleness, productivity, and practicality. 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.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. 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. Read all Angela Lansbury, successful film and television actress, stars in this documentary about her personal program for fitness and well-being. 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.

All written content, unless otherwise noted as being quotes, has been written and copyrighted by me. I think about each demand that will present itself in the coming day, and I visualize myself meeting it easily and well. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It was so well-liked by senior citizens that it pretty much single-handedly changed the way older women dress. She gives very sensible advice, she says wonderful things about hte older women, some of them with humour.One star lost for typical anti-fatness to be expected from a “fitness book”, particularly of its era. Lansbury's philosophy was to stay positive about each new day: "I take these few moments to focus on the day ahead. 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.