WHY ASK YMIR

A couple of RIPs this week: To songwriter Robert Sherman, best known for “It’s A Small World,” passed on at 86, and to actress and screenwriter Joan Taylor, passed on at 82. In honor of the latter…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let's once again honor one of Taylor’s most memorable leading men: The Ymir, the scaly ogre from 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). Filched as an egg by astronauts visiting Venus & hatched in Italy after they crash-land into the Mediterranean, the Ymir, animated by the great Ray Harryhausen, grows huge & runs amok in the streets of Rome...

...before eventually facing his Waterloo in the Colosseum. He's quite symapthetic, poor fellow; you can see him in action here.