Frank Drebin Frank Drebin Franklin "Frank" Drebin is a fictional character in the "Police Squad!" series and "The Naked Gun" movies played by Leslie Nielsen. In 2008, Drebin was selected by "Empire" magazine as one of "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time". In 2000, "TV Guide" named him to its list of the 25 greatest TV detectives, ranking him #23. He was also named by UGO.com as one of "The 100 Best Heroes of All Time". Frank Drebin is a member of Police Squad, a special department of the police force, where he served for many years. In the original
Tall Tall Trees (band) of effects pedals and loopers, bowing, drumming, and strumming out multi-textured arrangements to support his lyrically driven songs." Stylistically, Tall Tall Trees as a, "a vital collision between Elliott Smith and Rogue Wave" or compared to, "a new age Cat Stevens with dreamy harmonies." Influenced by Deer Tick and Fleet Foxes, Tall Tall Trees is most easily classified as "indie-folk" but the scope of Savino's formal experimentation and the complexity of the soundscapes created trouble the boundaries of this easy genre-definition. Born in Long Island, Savino played bass guitar and sax in his younger days. He studied the jazz double