Round 6: Tossup 10

A 2016 Vanity Fair profile about these two people discusses an incident in which Romanoff’s restaurant was flooded by people watching them eat cranked crab. These two people’s spouses were respectively an alcoholic urologist with a famously large penis and a vaudeville actor who performed “Casey at the Bat” ten thousand times. Neither is a director, but the original end of Sunset Boulevard, in which one of them cameos, was these two people cursing out Norma Desmond and each other on parallel phone calls. (-5[1])These two people, whom Liz Smith claimed were financed by people like (*) Louis B. Mayer, inspired Tilda Swinton’s identical twin characters in Hail, Caesar!. Writings by these two people fueled William Randolph Hearst’s gag order on Citizen Kane and the worldwide outcry over Ingrid Bergman’s affair with Roberto Rossellini. For 10 points, name these two rival Hollywood gossip columnists. ■END■ (10[1])

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