Three or four noisy peals of lightning and thunder bring in the other children in their pajamas - fearful of the storm.Kansas families who were evicted and uprooted from heir "Dust Bowl" farm land, and forced to search westward in the inhospitable Eden of California for jobs and survival with housands of other migrant workers.Director Martin Scorsese was convinced by actor Robert De Niro, with whom he had madeMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), andNew York, New York (1977), that he film had to be made, after he was given La Motta's biography by De Niro in 1974...it's bait, part of an internal molehunt," and told her he wanted to ask Job why he had been "disavowed" - he then promised to "deliver the actual NOC list," while warning her not to open up the 'worthless' disk that was equipped with a homing device, that would automatically summon CIA agents within no more than 10 minutes." Her mother Mlle.Gorgeous (Anne Nagel) also works at the studios as a rapeze artist double.Back at the restaurant, the classic run-in with the fleshy waitress continues:Waitress: And another thing.