Steve Lawrence Rickles hosted ABC's "Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders". In 1985, Steve and Eydie Gorme played Tweedledee (Gorme) and Tweedledum (Lawrence) in Irwin Allen's film adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland". He played Mark McCormick's father, Sonny Daye, in two episodes of "Hardcastle and McCormick". In 1999, he appeared as the much-talked about, but never really seen, Morty Fine, father of Fran Fine in a few of the final episodes of "The Nanny". In 2011, he portrayed Jack, a wealthy love interest of Betty White's character, Elka Ostrovsky, on "Hot in Cleveland". In 2014, he guest-starred in an episode of "Two and a
Giovanni Bononcini of his sojourns to Italy, he married Margherita Balletti. She came from a family of actors and "commedia dell'arte" players and was the sister-in-law of Luigi Riccoboni. From 1720 to 1732 he was in London, where for a time his popularity rivaled George Frideric Handel's, who had arrived in London in 1712. The Whig party favored Handel, while the Tories favored Bononcini. Their competition inspired the epigram by John Byrom that made the phrase "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" famous. Handel steadily gained the ascendancy, and Bononcini became a pensioner of the Duchess of Marlborough, who had led his admirers. Bononcini left