Leslie Nielsen - Detective Frank Drebin Died

Leslie Nielsen (84) who played as Dr. Rumack in "Airplane!" and Detective Frank Drebin in the "Naked Gun" series died Sunday at a hospital near his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home of complications from pneumonia. When Nielsen introduced the show, back in 1989, gave a wonderful opening monologue, explaining exactly what he did and his perplexity. He did not understand why he was asked to organize a comedy because it was neither an actor nor a comic book. An actor, he said, was someone who says things funny. A comic has been a person who says things in a fun way.