ARMED & DANGEROUS

OK, so the Giants won the World Series earlier this week. Not that I’m a Texas Rangers fan, but just because the Giants are rivals of the Diamondbacks…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to the title character of 1955’s It Came From Beneath the Sea.

The “it” of the title is an enormous cephalopod—it looks like an octopus, though for budgetary reasons animator Ray Harryhausen was permitted only six arms, so he called it a “hexapus”—who arose from the depths to wreak havoc on the City By the Bay…

Maybe in some future remake, one of those arms could slither up from McCovey Cove into AT&T Park, & snatch Tim Lincecum right off the mound…

Another RIP: To composer Jerry Bock, who has passed on at 81. In collaboration with the great lyricist Sheldon Harnick, Bock created the enduring scores to such Broadway classics as Fiddler on the Roof & Fiorello!