Death Becomes Her Sam's art looks distinctly (and deliberately) like David Hockney's paintings with their bright pastels and flat, sun-drenched LA facades. But Sam's paintings depict the less sunny parts of Southern California life: they are all scenes of infamous LA locations where horrible violence or death occurred.    The first in the series is based on a police photograph of Marilyn Monroe's bungalow taken on the day she died. The auction paddles, made for the scene where Sam's paintings are being sold at a charity auction, mimic Marilyn's curves and are numbered with her measurements. Click here to see a montage of Sam's other LA paintings, whose subjects include: the condo from which the Rodney King beating was filmed the Viper Room where River Phoenix O.D.'d the Ambassador Hotel where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated Nicole Brown Simpson's house O.J.'s Brentwood estate Sharon Tate's house the La Bianca mansion ...and the Melrose Place pool where Brooke drowned.    Executive producer Frank South considered this his favorite marriage of content and production needs--colorful paintings with a dark history.