Of Mice and Men (opera) opera. The opera was included for performance in the 2011 Opera Australia season and was directed by Australian film director Bruce Beresford.Sarasota Opera presented it in 2013. The Manitoba Opera and The Austin Opera performed it in 2016. SCENE ONE. "Of Mice and Men" is the tragic story of two migrant ranch workers' pursuit of a simple dream: to own a small house and farm of their own. George and his slow-witted traveling companion, Lennie, who has the physique and strength of a giant and a child's mind, are in constant trouble with their employers and the law because of
Every Picture Tells a Story (song) in the dark "Rod Stewart, scratchy and loud, combed his hair in a thousand different ways and came out looking just the same." Greil Marcus uses the reference to the song in "What It Takes to Keep a Young Girl Alive" to muse on what makes a good record and why "Every Picture Tells a Story" is a good record, i.e., a good record is one that "entering a person's life, can enable that person to live more intensely—as, whatever else it does, 'Every Picture Tells a Story' does for Jayne Anne Phillips' Sue." Every Picture Tells a Story (song)