Mike, who began this thread, used to work on the 'Georgia Strait (sometimes 'Straight')' mag in Vancouver.  (This is no indiscretion to mention, since he's talked about it here).  That was an 'underground' journalism thing, and you could easily see a situation where Rozsa would be (say, in relation to union matters?) quoted humorously alongside somebody like, I dunno, Tiomkin, and they'd be called Miki and Dmitri, like a comedy duo.

The Georgia Straight has always been spelled "Straight." When I was working there, I would probably not have described Rozsa and Tiomkin in the manner you mention, first because it was disrespectful, and secondly, no one would know who the heck I was talking about anyway. Many years ago, I did consider writing an article about Schoenberg, Berg and Webern referring to them as "Arnie, Al and Tony," just to get people's attention, though.

Maybe this chummy kind of nomenclature is the way they talk in Southern California or something...