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: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan are given screen time, mostly in conjunction with Sullivan. Daniel Burnham, though praised for city planning and a few of his buildings, is mostly presented as a contrast—and almost a personal nemesis—to Sullivan in artistry and "careerist" kowtowing to clients. Following Sullivan's strong criticisms, "Tall" blames Burnham for short-circuiting Chicago architecture's original design sense in favor of East Coast architects' slavishly slapping historic European details all over tall buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright is presented as having reconciled with Sullivan, his first employer, and as being his true heir in brilliantly conceived tall buildings. Numerous other Chicago architects are mentioned, mostly