On the left is Ron Brownstein while on the right is Woody Allen.
Ronald Brownstein is national political correspondent and columnist for the “Los Angeles Times,” He has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of both the 1996 and 2004 presidential elections. The author or editor of five previous books, he appears regularly as an analyst for CNN and on other television programs such as “Meet the Press” and “Charlie Rose”. Some of Ron Brownstein books include, “The Second Civil War:How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington”; and “Polarized America”. His nominations include News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form. Ronald Brownstein is the Editorial Director for National Journal. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns, is Atlantic Media’s Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, in charge of long-term editorial strategy. He also writes a weekly column and regularly contributes other pieces for the National Journal, contributes to Quartz, and The Atlantic, and coordinates political coverage and activities across publications produced by Atlantic Media.Prior to joining Atlantic Media, Ronald Brownstein was the National Affairs Columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has also served as the Times’ National Political Correspondent and the author of the weekly Washington Outlook column. Ronald Brownstein is a National Journal alumnus, having served as the magazine’s White House and National Politics Correspondent from 1983-1986, and then as its West Coast Correspondent through 1989. In addition, he currently serves as a senior political analyst for CNN and also served as an electoral analyst for ABC News during the 2012 election. Previously, he served as a political analyst for CNN from 1998 through 2004 and has appeared on the Sunday shows of all four broadcast networks as well as other programs on cable and broadcast. His sixth and most recent book, The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America, was published by Penguin in November 2007. Ron Brownstein was twice named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, receiving that recognition for his coverage of both the 1996 and 2004 presidential campaigns. In addition, he is the recipient of several journalism awards, including the Exceptional Merit in Media award from the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Excellence in Media award from the National Council on Public Polls in 2005, and the Journalist of the Year award from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2005. In 2007, the American Political Science Association presented him its Carey McWilliams award for lifetime achievement, granted to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics. Ronald Brownstein is a CNN senior political analyst. He is Atlantic Media’s Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, in charge of long-term editorial strategy. Prior to joining Atlantic Media, Ron Brownstein was the National Affairs Columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has also served as the Times’ national political correspondent and the author of the weekly Washington Outlook column. Ronald Brownstein is a National Journal alumnus, having served as the magazine’s White House and National Politics Correspondent from 1983 to 1986, and then as its West Coast Correspondent through 1989. In addition, he currently serves as a senior political analyst for CNN and also served as an electoral analyst for ABC News during the 2012 election. Previously, he served as a political analyst for CNN from 1998 through 2004 and has appeared on the Sunday shows of all four broadcast networks as well as other programs on cable and broadcast. Ron Brownstein was twice named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, receiving that recognition for his coverage of both the 1996 and 2004 presidential campaigns. In addition, he is the recipient of several journalism awards, including the Exceptional Merit in Media award from the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Excellence in Media award from the National Council on Public Polls in 2005, and the Journalist of the Year award from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2005. In 2007, the American Political Science Association presented him its Carey McWilliams award for lifetime achievement, granted to honor a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics. Ronald Brownstein is an also an actor, known for “Meet the Press”, “Race 2012: A Conversation About Race and Politics in America” and “Hollywood, D.C.”.
Woody Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1 st 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Woody Allen is an American actor, author, filmmaker, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. His name was changed to Heywood Allen but most people call him Woody Allen for short. His father was of Russian Jewish descent, and his maternal grandparents were Austrian Jewish immigrants. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today. Allen broke into show business at 15 years when he started writing jokes for a local paper, receiving $200 a week. He later moved on to write jokes for talk shows but felt that his jokes were being wasted. His agents, Charles Joffe and Jack Rollins, convinced him to start doing stand-up and telling his own jokes. Reluctantly he agreed and, although he initially performed with such fear of the audience that he would cover his ears when they applauded his jokes, he eventually became very successful at stand-up. After performing on stage for a few years, he was approached to write a script for Warren Beatty to star in: What’s New Pussycat (1965) and would also have a moderate role as a character in the film. During production, Woody gave himself more and better lines and left Beatty with less compelling dialogue. Beatty inevitably quit the project and was replaced by Peter Sellers, who demanded all the best lines and more screen-time. It was from this experience that Woody Allen realized that he could not work on a film without complete control over its production. Woody Allen`s theoretical directorial debut was in What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966); a Japanese spy flick that he dubbed over with his own comedic dialogue about spies searching for the secret recipe for egg salad. His real directorial debut came the next year in the mockumentary Take the Money and Run (1969). He has written, directed and, more often than not, starred in about a film a year ever since, while simultaneously writing more than a dozen plays and several books of comedy. Woody Allen worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Woody Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Woody Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Woody Allen as the third greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s he was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s, and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s.He often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. Some of the best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). In 2007 he said Stardust Memories (1980), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and Match Point (2005) were his best films. Roger Ebert described Allen as “a treasure of the cinema.” Woody Allen won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director (Annie Hall). He also became the fourth man to be nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the same film, after Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and Sylvester Stallone. He also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the “101 Funniest Screenplays.” In 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen: A Documentary on the American Masters TV series. His spouses over the years have included:Harlene Susan Rosen (m. 1956; div. 1962); Louise Lasser (m. 1966; div. 1970): and Soon-Yi Previn (m. 1997). Some of his partner over the years have been Diane Keaton (1970–1971) and Mia Farrow (1980–1992). His children are: Moses Farrow (son); Dylan Farrow (daughter); Ronan Farrow (son); Bechet Dumaine Allen (daughter); and Manzie Tio Allen (daughter). Woody Allen`s sister is Letty Aronson. While best known for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979), Woody Allen has made many transitions in his films throughout the years, transitioning from his “early, funny ones” of Bananas (1971), Love and Death (1975) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972); to his more storied and romantic comedies of Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986); to the Bergmanesque films of Stardust Memories (1980) and Interiors (1978); and then on to the more recent, but varied works of Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Husbands and Wives (1992), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), _Celebrity_ and Deconstructing Harry (1997); and finally to his films of the last decade, which vary from the light comedy of Scoop (2006), to the self-destructive darkness of Match Point (2005) and, most recently, to the cinematically beautiful tale of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Although his stories and style have changed over the years, he is regarded as one of the best filmmakers of our time because of his views on art and his mastery of filmmaking. Woody Allen frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker he also frequently casts himself, Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow and Judy Davis. His films are almost all set in New York City. His characters (that he plays himself) are often a semi-famous, semi-successful film/tv writer, director, producer or a novelist. He often wears thick black glasses. He is the older brother of Letty Aronson. Woody Allen is often seen on HBO in his mini-series “Crisis in Six Scenes”. Woody Allen trade mark is his short stature at 5’5″ tall in height, with a white head of hair and no facial hair.
CNN political analyst Ron Brownstein look like actor Woody Allen. They are famous men who look alike. Both wear glasses and have no facial hair.