So you're doing a lot of the little roles: half boom operator, half casting agent, half screen writer and then half actor if you're playing on it.
We go round the corner to the Athenaeum, and I ask what Dreyfuss thinks about lead producer Rocco Landesman's comment that Bialystock's character has to be "half actor, half athlete" to play the part?
But Blanchett also perfectly fulfils the Brechtian ideal that we should savour the dual nature of performance: half actor, half role, Blanchett playing Lotte as well as being Lotte.
For the first five and a half, actors including Lois Smith, Fritz Weaver, Barbara Feldon and David Margulies will read from the book's 18 episodes, with explanations by Mr. Sheffer and his co-host, the writer and actor Malachy McCourt.
Two years ago its founder, Juliano Khemis, a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish actor, was killed in circumstances that neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian authorities have explained.
Still, we do get a snapshot of his outfit, and it repays consideration: here is a half-Maori, half-Jewish actor playing a three-hundred-and-seventy-nine-year-old satanic dandy playing an African-American bride of Christ.
And even though they're no longer together, the half-Colombian, half-Venezuelan actor says he and Demi are still on good terms.
But these days the half-Venezuelan, half-Colombian actor spends most of his time behind the camera, as the creator and executive producer of a new reality competition called "King of the Floor".
Spielberg, who directed the multi-Oscar-nominated film, lost out to his other half - actor Kate Capshaw - who coughed up €43,000 for a set of etchings by U2 star Bono.
As usual, that was an exaggeration from a man whose only ever known understatement was the day he described David Beckham as half an actor.
Amanda Bruce appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, a US medical talk show, where she claimed to have been in a relationship with the Two and a Half Men actor for eight months.
