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

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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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. All written content, unless otherwise noted as being quotes, has been written and copyrighted by me. 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.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. 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. 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. I read this in preparation of an "in memorial" episode about Lansbury for my podcast, Advanced TV Herstory.

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. 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. One star lost for typical anti-fatness to be expected from a “fitness book”, particularly of its era.

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. This book was never intended to me a workout book or a weight loss book, as some reviewers seem to think.As Jessica Fletcher, she wore brightly-colored blouses, belted trench coats, fitted blazers, and patterned pashminas.

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. Lansbury's philosophy was to stay positive about each new day: "I take these few moments to focus on the day ahead. Lansbury did exactly what she said she would do in this book - she answered fans who asked her "What do you do. 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. This book is a mixture of class and comfort, avoiding fads and extremes in favor of gentleness, productivity, and practicality.Published in 1990, Lansbury's thoughts on managing her weight, moods, effects of aging and staying mentally healthy are mostly timeless. 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.