But you wouldn't much fancy hearing Robert De Niro give a concert would you?

But it's surprising that Bob Dylan isn't a fair actor - I don't mean a versatile one, but as good at doing a performance of being Bob Dylan when he's acting as when he's singing. He seems to sort of freeze up. Maybe this one will be better, though the clip doesn't really seem to indicate that.

I remember, way back in 1963, the BBC did a play with the then virtually unknown Dylan called "The Madhouse on Castle Street". They just had him wander around with a guitar in between the actors, serving as a kind of chorus. That worked quite well, I seem to remember. However they wiped the tapes and there's nothing left of it.

Still, I think that's the way to use him. With a guitar in his hands he unfreezes. I can relate to that, I'm sure a lot of us can.