There's nothing like the clip reel from a disaster movie to give TV critics a fit of the giggles, and NBC's "10.5," a four-hour extravaganza pointed, like a nuclear warhead, at the May sweeps, did not disappoint.

Some of us have been waiting, not hopefully of course, for psychic Edgar Cayce's long-ago prediction to come true and for California to fall into the ocean, but it takes NBC to put that into a miniseries the whole family can enjoy.

Countless movies have destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge, but it was the sight of the Hollywood sign -- which many of us can see from our rooms here at the Renaissance -- falling a letter at a time off the Hollywood hills that triggered the most hilarity, I fear.

Which is why, when the lights came up, the first question for the cast, which includes Roxborough's Kim Delaney playing a seismologist, was prefaced with the remark that "there's also a serious side to these earthquakes."

It just may take the full four hours to find it, I guess.