T here's a scene in the latest Sarah Polley film, Take This Waltz , where Michelle Williams and Sarah Silverman shower with their ageing water aerobics class in a gangly soup of bellies and pubes and shampoo. It is not like most female nude scenes — it's brightly lit, it shows a variety of body shapes, and its purpose is not to titillate. And yet this scene is discussed in every review, in every interview. Where a traditionally attractive woman's body would have been dismissed, plot-wise, as background music, a saggier breast must stand for something. It must be discussed with studied detachment.

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Diane Polley was a Canadian actor and casting director. While working as a casting director Polley helped discover the comedy group The kids in the hall , and later guest starred on their show. Polley's son John Buchan is also a casting director. In Polley's daughter Sarah directed a film about her own birth, after having confirmed, as an adult, that her conception was the result of an affair her mother had.