Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987 film) square to square on a large chessboard. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987 film) Alice Through the Looking Glass is a 1987 Australian-Italian animated film nominally based on the novel "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Andrea Bresciani and Richard Slapczynski from a screenplay by Jameson Brewer. The movie starts off with a bored Alice trapped in her house by a snow storm. The film's voice cast includes Janet Waldo as Alice, Mr. T. as the Jabberwock, Phyllis Diller as the White Queen, Jonathan Winters as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Alan Young as the White Knight.
Muzio Scevola Giovanni Bononcini had also been resident in London and composing operas for the Academy since 1719 and some music lovers preferred his lighter, more Italianate style with straightforward melodies to Handel's more weighty music. The rivalry between those who supported one of the composers more than the other inspired a satirical ditty from John Byrom: <poem> Some say, compared to Bononcini That meinherr Handel's but a ninny. Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee!</poem> To capitalise on this rivalry, according to Handel's first biographer