Depending on your age…you either know actor, Glenn Plummer, as ‘High Top’ from the movie, “Colors,” as ‘O.G. Bobby Johnson’ from the film, “South Central,” or as ‘Pernell’ from “Menace II Society.” What many may not know about him is that he’s the former husband of an ’80s/’90s R&B singer, whose group had radio airwaves heated up for a few years back in the day.

Although they divorced in 2014, Glenn and his ex-wife have a long history together. They were married for 14 years, and have two beautiful children from their union. And from the looks of it, they’re still pretty cool with each other today. Check out who his R&B wife was below…

He Married A ‘Good Girl!’

Glenn Plummer was married to The Good Girls singer, DeMonica Santiago, from 2000 to 2014. You all remember the R&B girls group, The Good Girls, right? They were the Motown Records group that came out rockin’ the Catholic school outfits with the short plaid skirts, cardigan sweaters, ties, and oxford shoes…all while making it look cool.

They had hits like “Your Sweetness” and “Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart.” At their peak from about 1989 to 1992, some people described their sound as an New Jack Swing version of The Supremes. Check out the video below to refresh your memory…

We don’t really know why Glenn and DeMonica divorced after 14 years…maybe they just grew apart.

Anywho, at the time of their divorce, it was also reported that Glenn was not leaving their home, and continued living there with DeMonica and their children.

Meet The Plummers

Below are a few throwback photos of Glenn and DeMonica with their beautiful [now] 22-year-old daughter, Julia Plummer, and their son, Joshua Plummer (age unknown).

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Random Fun Fact: Glenn Plummer Almost Beat Up Sean Penn On Movie Set

Glenn Plummer recalled the scene in “Colors”…when police officers, “Pac-Man” (Sean Penn) and “Hodges” (Robert Duvall) beat the brakes off of his character, “High Top.” Duvall and Penn went off-script and got reality twisted with fiction, says Plummer.

GLENN PLUMMER ON ROBERT DUVALL- “So we get on set and these guys are running around and they’re treating everybody like they’re gang members. You know what I mean? Like talking…little advantages and stuff. Like we did a scene the alley way and the first thing that happened in that scene was that I was on my knees and Robert Duvall slapped me in the face with a notebook, like hard enough to put…a welp on my cheek. So that was the FIRST thing that happened, I was HANDCUFFED! […] And I looked at him and I remember going “Aww man, it’s like THAT? And I’m looking around and I’m wondering if anybody;s gonna do anything about it….nobody said anything.”

GLENN PLUMER ON SEAN PENN- “I think he got upset because he wanted everything to be ‘real,’ but what ended up happening was he kinda felt like he wanted to do some extra sh*t. And he ended up slamming my face down on the car and in the scene I was wearing these shades. And at one point he slammed it and i took it with my elbows and then when I relaxed, he slammed my head back down into the car, busted my shades, ripped them apart and you know, gave me this whole like, reason to kill him. Then at that point I was like ‘Okay you know what? This has gone too far.’ So I stopped and I’m like ‘Man…I’m not really a gang member, I’m not really 17, I’m not really seventeen motherfu*ka, I’m 27 years old, I’m a grown ass man… And if you slam my head down on this car again dude I’m fuc*in’ you up.’ […] ‘And all them cops you hangin’ ’round with to get into character, and all these producers sitting around here who…don’t seem to care that you over here trying to fu*k me up, they ain’t gon’ get to you fast enough before I kick your a$$.’ So…you either stop doing this sh*t now, or me and you gon’ be in this dirt.'”

Check out what Glenn said happened next in the video below…

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Remember “Leon” from “Good Times?” He was one of “J.J.’s” high school friends-turned-hustler, who gave “J.J.” an illegal bookie job after running into him at the unemployment office. Well after “Leon” got shot by the cops in that police raid, actor Grand L. Bush went on to star in many films including “Colors,” “Stir Crazy,” “Demolition Man,””Street Fighter,” “License To Kill” and many more. We were wondering what the brotha was up to nowadays since we hadn’t seen him in a while and what we found was pretty surprising and impressive. Check this out family…

WHAT’S BEEN UP WITH GRAND L. BUSH

Grand L. Bush is 66 years young. In 2003, he officially retired from acting to enter a career field that we would least expect a ‘hustler’ like Leon” (in “Good Times”) or a ‘gangster,’ like “Larry Sylvester” (in “Colors”), to enter. But of course we’re talking about Grand the man, and not the actor. CHECK OUT WHAT HE DOES NOW…

BUSH LOVES HIS CAREER IN THE MEDICAL FIELD

After Grand L. Bush retired from acting he discovered his other passion and attended medical school, graduated in 2010, then became a vascular/abdominal sonographer. In the above photo he’s assisting a vascular surgeon during a laser venous ablation operation. Here’s what was reported:

 Los Angeles, CA — Representatives for Grand L. Bush announced … that the former Hollywood actor has signed with … a Southern California-based company. Bush joins a decorated team of highly-skilled diagnostic medical sonographers, hand-picked to provide hospitals, out-patient medical centers, doctors’ offices and community clinics with state-of-the-art ultrasound services.

Bush … accepted a contract with [the imaging company], after receiving notable certifications from the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and demonstrating his skills in person. Source

GRAND WAS AWARDED FOR SAVING SHOOTING VICTIM

Grand is a real-life hero. In 1994, Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti presented him with the ‘Courageous Citizen Award’ for jumping in and saving the life of a shooting victim in L.A. who would have otherwise died on the spot from his injuries.

Grand is also dedicated to his religious beliefs and has ministered to incarcerated youth and other troubled minors.

GRAND L. BUSH IS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN

Bush has been married since 1994 to his TV personality wife, Sharon Raiford Bush (formerly known as Sharon Crews) and they have four children together, who pretty much stay out of the public eye.

Sharon was a TV news anchor and also became the first African-American female weather anchor of primetime TV news in 1975, while working at the very first Black-owned-and-operated television channel in the world, WPGR-TV in Detroit, MI. She later worked for CBS and NBC stations in Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as BET… THERE’S MORE…

HE’S A SKILLED SWIMMER

Grand L. Bush is also an expert swimmer and a certified sailboat skipper.

So as you can see, since we’ve last seen him on the big screen, Grand’s pretty much been enjoying life, even renewing his marriage vows to Sharon in 2006. We always love seeing an Old School entertainer living happy and stress-free after putting in the work and leaving a strong legacy in their path.

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Remember “Leon” from “Good Times?” He was one of “J.J.’s” high school friends-turned-hustler, who gave “J.J.” an illegal bookie job after running into him at the unemployment office. Well after “Leon” got shot by the cops in that police raid, actor Grand L. Bush went on to star in many films including “Colors,” “Stir Crazy,” “Demolition Man,””Street Fighter,” “License To Kill” and many more. We were wondering what the brotha was up to nowadays since we hadn’t seen him in a while and what we found was pretty surprising and impressive. Check this out family…

WHAT’S BEEN UP WITH GRAND L. BUSH

Grand L. Bush is 66 years young. In 2003, he officially retired from acting to enter a career field that we would least expect a ‘hustler’ like Leon” (in “Good Times”) or a ‘gangster,’ like “Larry Sylvester” (in “Colors”), to enter. But of course we’re talking about Grand the man, and not the actor. CHECK OUT WHAT HE DOES NOW…

BUSH LOVES HIS CAREER IN THE MEDICAL FIELD

After Grand L. Bush retired from acting he discovered his other passion and attended medical school, graduated in 2010, then became a vascular/abdominal sonographer. In the above photo he’s assisting a vascular surgeon during a laser venous ablation operation. Here’s what was reported:

 Los Angeles, CA — Representatives for Grand L. Bush announced … that the former Hollywood actor has signed with … a Southern California-based company. Bush joins a decorated team of highly-skilled diagnostic medical sonographers, hand-picked to provide hospitals, out-patient medical centers, doctors’ offices and community clinics with state-of-the-art ultrasound services.

Bush … accepted a contract with [the imaging company], after receiving notable certifications from the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and demonstrating his skills in person. Source

GRAND WAS AWARDED FOR SAVING SHOOTING VICTIM

Grand is a real-life hero. In 1994, Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti presented him with the ‘Courageous Citizen Award’ for jumping in and saving the life of a shooting victim in L.A. who would have otherwise died on the spot from his injuries.

Grand is also dedicated to his religious beliefs and has ministered to incarcerated youth and other troubled minors.

GRAND L. BUSH IS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN

Bush has been married since 1994 to his TV personality wife, Sharon Raiford Bush (formerly known as Sharon Crews) and they have four children together, who pretty much stay out of the public eye.

Sharon was a TV news anchor and also became the first African-American female weather anchor of primetime TV news in 1975, while working at the very first Black-owned-and-operated television channel in the world, WPGR-TV in Detroit, MI. She later worked for CBS and NBC stations in Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as BET… THERE’S MORE…

HE’S A SKILLED SWIMMER

Grand L. Bush is also an expert swimmer and a certified sailboat skipper.

So as you can see, since we’ve last seen him on the big screen, Grand’s pretty much been enjoying life, even renewing his marriage vows to Sharon in 2006. We always love seeing an Old School entertainer living happy and stress-free after putting in the work and leaving a strong legacy in their path.

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Many of us Old Schoolers remember actor, Trinidad Silva, as the Latino gang leader, “Frog,” in the ’88 hood classic movie, “Colors,” or as “Jesus Martinez,” the gang leader-turned lawyer in “Hill Street Blues.” What many of us may not know is that Silva died without much fanfare, almost immediately after “Colors” hit theaters. So we want to pay homage to this gifted actor who is gone way too soon. See what happened to him below.

He Died Way Too Young

Trinidad Silva died young, he was only 38 years old, with a young child and wife at the time of his death. On July 31, 1988, just two months after Colors released, Trinidad Silva was killed by a drunk driver in Whittier, Ca:

Via LA Times: Whittier police said Silva, 38, his wife, Sophia, 28, and their 2-year-old son, Samuel, were driving east on Slauson Avenue Sunday, when a sedan moving south on Santa Fe Springs Road ran the red light where the two streets intersect and slammed into the driver’s side of the pickup.

In one of his last interviews, Silva addressed being typecast as an Hispanic gang member, due to how well he played his “Colors” and “Hill Street Blues” characters:

“I used to worry about it, but not anymore…I’m an actor. I can play more than Jesus (Martinez). I did (a non-gang role in the TV movie) Stones for Ibarra. I did the sitcom Maximum Security for HBO. I was even nominated for an ACE (Academy of Cable Excellence) Award as best actor. But I still have to prove myself — and that keeps me honest. Because of something like Hill Street, you get a little of both; the door is open, and the door is shut. It’s okay, as long as you maintain a good attitude.”

At the time of his death, he was in the middle of filming “Weird Al” Yankovic’s film “UHF.” But sadly, Trinidad Silva never got to further “prove himself” in Hollywood. It’s even more sad that Silva’s wife and son had to lose him because a reckless idiot decided to get behind the wheel that day.

Actor Tells Another Little Known Fact Of Dangers Behind The Scene “Colors” Set

Silva’s death is one of several little known facts about “Colors” actors and the film itself. In a past interview with Bill Kelley, the late Dennis Hopper (pictured above pointing ahead) told several unknown facts about what went down behind the scenes of “Colors.” He hand picked every actor for the movie and wanted it to be realistic, so he chose real Crips and Bloods gang members for the film, which lead to violence, deaths, and a bunch of other stuff. Here’s what Hopper explained (via Sun Sentinel):

“We shot at a project in Watts that even the police won`t go into unless there`s a body lying there. I later learned that afterward, in each place we shot, trouble broke out. Gang members would come and watch us shoot and then start something after. One thing we shot in Watts was a drive-by of a church where there was a funeral by some members of the Crips — and two hours later, someone was killed a block away.”

“During the production, maybe 10 people were killed. I would not pin it on the making of the film. It`s an ongoing thing — happens all the time. I did one conscious thing: I did not cross gangs. If I was shooting in a Crip area, I`d use Crips as extras. Shooting in a Blood area, I`d use Bloods. It`s a fascinating background.”

R.I.P. to Denis Hopper and Trinidad Silva.

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See what Glenn revealed about how the on-screen beef between “High Top” (Glenn), “Pac-Man” (Sean Penn), “Hodges” (Robert Duvall and others in the movie, translated to real-life beef behind the scenes. Apparently, the ‘ish’ got REAL!

THINGS TURNED VIOLENT & TENSION WAS HIGH ON SET

Glenn Plummer recalled the scene in “Colors,” where police officers, “Pac-Man” and “Hodges” beat the brakes off of him and what he did next. Duvall and Penn went off-script and got reality twisted with fiction says Plummer.

GLENN PLUMMER ON “COLORS” CO-STAR, ROBERT DUVALL

GP: “So we get on set and these guys are running around and they’re treating everybody like they’re gang members. You know what I mean? Like, talking…little advantages and stuff. We did a scene in the alley way. And the first thing that happened in that scene was that I was on my knees and Robert Duvall slapped me in the face with a notebook, like hard enough to put…a welp on my cheek. So that was the FIRST thing that happened. I was HANDCUFFED! […] And I looked at him and I remember going ‘Aww man, it’s like THAT?’ And I’m looking around and I’m wondering if anybody’s gonna do anything about it….nobody said anything.”

GLENN PLUMER ON SEAN PENN–

Then came the time to film the scene when Sean Penn had to chase Glenn Plummer down the alley. That’s when Glenn said the ‘ish’ REALLY hit the fan:

GP: “I think [Sean Plummer] got upset because he wanted everything to be ‘real,’ but what ended up happening was he kinda felt like he wanted to do some extra sh*t. And he ended up slamming my face down on the car. And in the scene I was wearing these shades. And at one point, he slammed it and I took it with my elbows. And then when I relaxed, he slammed my head back down into the car, busted my shades, ripped them apart and you know, gave me this whole like, reason to kill him.

Then at that point I was like, ‘Okay you know what? This has gone too far.’ So I stopped and I’m like ‘Man…I’m not really a gang member, I’m not really 17, I’m not really seventeen motherfu*ka. I’m 27 years old, I’m a grown a$$ man. … And if you slam my head down on this car again, dude I’m fuc*in’ you up.’ … ‘And all them cops you hanging around with to get into character, and all these producers sitting around here who…don’t seem to care that you over here trying to fu*k me up, they ain’t gon’ get to you fast enough before I kick your a$$.’ So…you either stop doing this sh*t now, or me and you gon’ be in this dirt.'”

Watch the rest of Glenn Plummer’s interview below…

Glad to see that they squashed their beef after it was all said and done, but geesh, the tension was clearly on level 100!

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Remember “Leon” from “Good Times?” He was one of “J.J.’s” high school friends-turned-hustler, who gave “J.J.” an illegal bookie job after running into him at the unemployment office. Well after “Leon” got shot by the cops in that police raid, actor Grand L. Bush went on to star in many films including “Colors,” “Stir Crazy,” “Demolition Man,””Street Fighter,” “License To Kill” and many more. We were wondering what the brotha was up to nowadays since we hadn’t seen him in a while and what we found was pretty surprising and impressive. Check this out family…

WHAT’S BEEN UP WITH GRAND L. BUSH

Grand L. Bush is 64 years young and in 2003, he officially retired from acting to enter a career field that we would least expect a ‘hustler’ like Leon” (in “Good Times”) or a ‘gangster,’ like “Larry Sylvester” (in “Colors”), to enter. But of course we’re talking about Grand the man, and not the actor. CHECK OUT WHAT HE DOES NOW…

BUSH LOVES HIS CAREER IN THE MEDICAL FIELD

After Grand L. Bush retired from acting he discovered his other passion and attended medical school, graduated in 2010, then became a vascular/abdominal sonographer. In the above photo he’s assisting a vascular surgeon during a laser venous ablation operation. Here’s what was reported:

 Los Angeles, CA — Representatives for Grand L. Bush announced … that the former Hollywood actor has signed with … a Southern California-based company. Bush joins a decorated team of highly-skilled diagnostic medical sonographers, hand-picked to provide hospitals, out-patient medical centers, doctors’ offices and community clinics with state-of-the-art ultrasound services.

Bush … accepted a contract with [the imaging company], after receiving notable certifications from the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and demonstrating his skills in person. Source

GRAND WAS AWARDED FOR SAVING SHOOTING VICTIM

Grand is a real-life hero. In 1994, Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti presented him with the ‘Courageous Citizen Award’ for jumping in and saving the life of a shooting victim in L.A. who would have otherwise died on the spot from his injuries.

Grand is also dedicated to his religious beliefs and has ministered to incarcerated youth and other troubled minors.

GRAND L. BUSH IS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN

Bush has been married since 1994 to his TV personality wife, Sharon Raiford Bush (formerly known as Sharon Crews) and they have four children together, who pretty much stay out of the public eye.

Sharon was a TV news anchor and also became the first African-American female weather anchor of primetime TV news in 1975, while working at the very first Black-owned-and-operated television channel in the world, WPGR-TV in Detroit, MI. She later worked for CBS and NBC stations in Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as BET… THERE’S MORE…

HE’S A SKILLED SWIMMER

Grand L. Bush is also an expert swimmer and a certified sailboat skipper.

So as you can see, since we’ve last seen him on the big screen, Grand’s pretty much been enjoying life, even renewing his marriage vows to Sharon in 2006. We always love seeing an Old School entertainer living happy and stress-free after putting in the work and leaving a strong legacy in their path.

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Many of us Old Schoolers remember actor, Trinidad Silva, as the Latino gang leader, “Frog,” in the ’88 hood classic movie, “Colors,” or as “Jesus Martinez,” the gang leader-turned lawyer in “Hill Street Blues.” What many of us may not know is that Silva died without much fanfare, almost immediately after “Colors” hit theaters. So we want to pay homage to this gifted actor who is gone way too soon. See what happened to him below.

He Died Way Too Young

Trinidad Silva died young, he was only 38 years old, with a young child and wife at the time of his death. On July 31, 1988, just two months after Colors released, Trinidad Silva was killed by a drunk driver in Whittier, Ca:

Via LA Times: Whittier police said Silva, 38, his wife, Sophia, 28, and their 2-year-old son, Samuel, were driving east on Slauson Avenue Sunday, when a sedan moving south on Santa Fe Springs Road ran the red light where the two streets intersect and slammed into the driver’s side of the pickup.

In one of his last interviews, Silva addressed being typecast as an Hispanic gang member, due to how well he played his “Colors” and “Hill Street Blues” characters:

“I used to worry about it, but not anymore…I’m an actor. I can play more than Jesus (Martinez). I did (a non-gang role in the TV movie) Stones for Ibarra. I did the sitcom Maximum Security for HBO. I was even nominated for an ACE (Academy of Cable Excellence) Award as best actor. But I still have to prove myself — and that keeps me honest. Because of something like Hill Street, you get a little of both; the door is open, and the door is shut. It’s okay, as long as you maintain a good attitude.”

At the time of his death, he was in the middle of filming “Weird Al” Yankovic’s film “UHF.” But sadly, Trinidad Silva never got to further “prove himself” in Hollywood. It’s even more sad that Silva’s wife and son had to lose him because a reckless idiot decided to get behind the wheel that day.

Actor Tells Another Little Known Fact Of Dangers Behind The Scene “Colors” Set

Silva’s death is one of several little known facts about “Colors” actors and the film itself. In a past interview with Bill Kelley, the late Dennis Hopper (pictured above pointing ahead) told several unknown facts about what went down behind the scenes of “Colors.” He hand picked every actor for the movie and wanted it to be realistic, so he chose real Crips and Bloods gang members for the film, which lead to violence, deaths, and a bunch of other stuff. Here’s what Hopper explained (via Sun Sentinel):

“We shot at a project in Watts that even the police won`t go into unless there`s a body lying there. I later learned that afterward, in each place we shot, trouble broke out. Gang members would come and watch us shoot and then start something after. One thing we shot in Watts was a drive-by of a church where there was a funeral by some members of the Crips — and two hours later, someone was killed a block away.”

“During the production, maybe 10 people were killed. I would not pin it on the making of the film. It`s an ongoing thing — happens all the time. I did one conscious thing: I did not cross gangs. If I was shooting in a Crip area, I`d use Crips as extras. Shooting in a Blood area, I`d use Bloods. It`s a fascinating background.”

R.I.P. to Denis Hopper and Trinidad Silva.

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