Tiny Ron Taylor Tiny Ron Taylor Ronald "Tiny Ron" Taylor (born November 21, 1947) is an American film actor and former basketball player. He is possibly best known as Lothar in "The Rocketeer" (1991) and as Roc in "" (1994), roles that exploited his 7 ft (2.13 m) frame and craggy features. He also played Al, the tall police detective whose face is never seen, in "The Naked Gun" (1988) and on the TV series "Police Squad!". He has also appeared on television, including seven episodes of "" as the Hupyrian manservant Maihar'du, and two episodes of "" as the alpha Idrin. Taylor
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