IRVINE -- Among the dozens of Expressionist and Impressionist oil paintings that Todd Marinovich has created in the last several years, there is one called "The Crown."
The former USC and Raiders quarterback admits it is a self-portrait, an orange face crying amidst a wall of clipped newspaper headlines. The face looks to be in more pain than Edvard Munch's "The Scream." As for all the headlines in the background, he said they came from a discovery of an old trunk in his grandmother's garage. "I couldn't see myself saving all these things and making a scrapbook, so I used them in my art," .