The right kind of attention doesn't have to stop...

December 22, 2015 3:36 PM

Angela Lansbury teaches you everything you need to know about fitness and sensuality, no matter who you are.
posted by howfar (27 comments total)

You know what does need to stop? Cheesy 80's synth pads.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:51 PM on December 22, 2015

I just don't start enough mornings with freestyle dance movements. Or massages. Or bike rides. I do often gesture to have another piece of chocolate cake, but mainly to myself.
posted by billiebee at 3:54 PM on December 22, 2015 [6 favorites]

I wonder if that's really her house? Because I love that house.
posted by JanetLand at 3:54 PM on December 22, 2015 [3 favorites]

My thoughts in order: It's uh... huh...uh...okaaayyy...fondly recalls Murder She Wrote...peach colored jumpsuit...I wish that was my deck...alright then rock it out sister. She's 90 years old and kicking ass y'all.
posted by pipoquinha at 4:26 PM on December 22, 2015

Nobody got mudered and no third act switcheroo-reveal, not a very good episode of Muder She Wrote. Fun tho!
posted by vrakatar at 4:41 PM on December 22, 2015 [3 favorites]

No-one lights a cigarette
While riding in a car
No ol' guy takes a swig
And passes back the jar
But where they weren't last night
No-one can remember
Nobody got murdered
Goodbye, for keeps, forever

Nobody got murdered
Nobody's dead forever
posted by This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things at 4:46 PM on December 22, 2015 [4 favorites]

her pulse never got above 85...
posted by ennui.bz at 5:43 PM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

You know what does need to stop? Cheesy 80's synth pads.

Hdu sir! Rolands at dawn
posted by en forme de poire at 6:06 PM on December 22, 2015 [5 favorites]

This is lovely.

With four Tony awards, three Oscar and five Emmy nominations, Angela Lansbury, 63, can lay fair claim to being among the most versatile actresses ever. For the past four seasons, she has starred as Jessica Fletcher, the mystery novelist and sleuth, in the highly rated CBS series Murder, She Wrote. But Murder's fifth season, which began this month, will be Lansbury's last. "I'm so terribly interested in so many things, and one of my problems with the series is that I don't have enough time to do some things I enjoy, "she says. "So I'm just going to leave and take my chances."

There is no chance, however, that the English-born Lansbury will ever allow herself to vegetate. Proof of that comes in a just-released video, Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: A Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being at Any Age. In the 50-minute tape, Lansbury takes viewers into the Brentwood, Calif., home she shares with her husband and manager, Peter Shaw, to demonstrate her own fitness program of exercise and selective eating and to sound off about femininity and sexuality for the postmenopausal woman. Says Lansbury: "There comes a time in life when if you can say certain things that can be helpful to other people, you darn well ought to share them." She spoke with correspondent Suzanne Adelson.

Available on VHS.
posted by books for weapons at 6:20 PM on December 22, 2015 [3 favorites]

Angela Lansbury is the Big Boss you cannot defeat.

Angela Lansbury is the diamond too big to carry.

Angela Lansbury is the day you wake up a better person.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 6:35 PM on December 22, 2015 [4 favorites]

Rolands at dawn

What makes you think I would own (or touch) one of those?
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:15 PM on December 22, 2015

I encountered this via Everything Is Terrible and wondered where it came from originally. Thanks!
posted by Feyala at 8:57 PM on December 22, 2015

Rolands at dawn

What makes you think I would own (or touch) one of those?

What do you have against Headless Thompson Gunners?
posted by This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things at 10:15 PM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

What makes you think I would own (or touch) one of those?

You can bring whatever you want but I hope you're not planning on bringing a guitar to a synth fight
posted by en forme de poire at 11:07 PM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

AL quote from books for weapons' People link above:

Men are one of our hardest obstacles to overcome, quite truthfully. Men are children when it comes to women. I get letters from women whose husbands are off with younger women, that sort of thing. But as long as these wives hang in there, just keep looking lovely and start taking better care of themselves, believe me, those guys will come home. They always do.

I mean I'm down with self-care (for myself, because selfish - also bad at that and this video is not unhelpful in that regard), and even possibly maintaining a "sense of mystery" as a mechanism for facilitating hookups, except I'm unclear on what it actually means. If that's the lynchpin of successful romancing in late life, I feel like someone should be a little less mysterious about it.
posted by cotton dress sock at 12:02 AM on December 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

(Ahem - I'm not actually trying to follow Angela Lansbury's advice. Though I don't think all of it is bad, the dancing in particular. She is just noticeably vague on the core USP of this product, in comparison to her comprehensive instruction wrt stretching and cycling. And although I'm sympathetic to the idea of fighting to stay dignified and lovely through my autumnal years - and appreciate her recognition of some women's "tailored, staunch, strong" appeal - I think that's a lot of pressure to put on the women who, I guess, bought this, in part, to try to save their marriages. The idea that that's possibly a requirement for success in that area is sad and a little angering.)
posted by cotton dress sock at 1:30 AM on December 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

Am I the only one disappointed that it's not done in character? e.g. VHS-of-the-Month-Club is proud to present: Reinforcing Your Physical (And Other) Conditioning With Mrs. Iselin?

"It was the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful workout video I have ever seen. Much better than Cats. I'll see it again and again."
posted by Nerd of the North at 6:56 AM on December 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

You can bring whatever you want but I hope you're not planning on bringing a guitar to a synth fight

I'll just deafen us both with my trumpet, then neither of us will have to hear cheesy synths anymore.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:15 AM on December 23, 2015

I prefer Angela Lansbury's diet video.
posted by Daily Alice at 8:46 AM on December 23, 2015

Here's a different clip of Angela Lansbury from an earlier time, performing "Oh You Kid!" from The Harvey Girls.
posted by mhum at 9:01 AM on December 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

Younger Angela Lansbury, shot by Editta Sherman
posted by Mchelly at 9:45 AM on December 23, 2015

Hands up if you had to make a quick wikipedia detour to see if she was still alive.
posted by Rhomboid at 10:12 AM on December 23, 2015

hope you're not planning on bringing a guitar to a synth fight

Keytar, surely.
posted by zippy at 11:11 AM on December 23, 2015 [2 favorites]

47 years????!? O Faithless Woman I have trusted so!

but seriously folks Angela Lansbury is fully lovely.
posted by ostranenie at 6:41 PM on December 23, 2015

It certainly does sound like a lovely morning routine. My routine is flying out the door with toast in my hair and coffee on my shoes because I pressed the snooze button fifty times. I lived in places where stretching out like that would put your arm through the wall.

I'm glad Angela has been well rewarded for her work. But for almost all of us, we just don't have the time for this kind of thing.
posted by adept256 at 7:03 PM on December 23, 2015

My routine is flying out the door with toast in my hair and coffee on my shoes

You're obviously not eating right.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:07 PM on December 23, 2015 [3 favorites]

But for almost all of us, we just don't have the time for this kind of thing.

That's more a call to revolution than a problem with the routine, however. I'd happily burn a civic building under the flag of Angela Lansbury's face.
posted by howfar at 6:48 AM on December 24, 2015