But there was no obituary because the day that I died was also the day I started to live.But that comes later."The setting was a big city, where Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) worked in an art department job ("the practical version of my passion") as a graphic designer of ads for beauty cream.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This fourth film of theDeadseries, a comeback film for Romero, posited the apocalyptic collapse of human society.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.He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily, and on September 22, 1975, he was fired, effective in two weeks.