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Angela Lansbury, happy recipient of new knees after years of pain, talks with Richard Beech at a meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Chicago on Wednesday.
Angela Lansbury, happy recipient of new knees after years of pain, talks with Richard Beech at a meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Chicago on Wednesday. (By Brian Kersey -- Associated Press)
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Bach appeared in the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" and in numerous episodes of "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider."

New Knees Is Good Knees

Angela Lansbury, who recently had knee replacement surgery, is thrilled. The 80-year-old actress, who is promoting the procedure for women on behalf of an orthopedics company, says she had been "crippled" for years by intolerable knee pain.

She says the procedure has allowed her to dance again.

"I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life," the four-time Tony Award winner said. "But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can."

"I want to tell women, 'Don't put it off,' " Lansbury said.

Lansbury said she waited until last July to have the surgery -- which replaces deteriorating cartilage of the knee joint with metal and plastic -- because she feared it would be too painful.

The actress starred as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series "Murder, She Wrote," and also starred on Broadway and in the 1962 movie "The Manchurian Candidate."

'Housewives' Game

The hit television series "Desperate Housewives" has inspired a video game.

Walt Disney's Buena Vista Games Inc. announced Friday that it plans to release this fall a PC video game based on the show. In the game, players will take on the role of a new Wisteria Lane housewife, who is able to uncover or create scandals.

-- Catherine Handren


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