Sci Fi Channel/Entertainment Weekly Party is a Hot Spot at Comic-Con

It39s official The Sci Fi ChannelEntertainment Weekly party at ComicCon is one of the hottest tickets of the yearThis bash is so hot in fact that industry insiders in Los Angeles begin buzzing about it weeks before the Con takes place Any conversation that begins with the question quotAre you going to ComicConquot inevitably includes the following advice quotGet yourself invited to the Sci Fi ChannelEW partyquot I heard this time and again throughout the Television Critics Tour in Beverly Hills which concluded one day before ComicCon beganI39ve attended this event during each of the last two ComicCons and I think it is safe to say that there isn39t another annual party like it in the entertainment business Maybe it39s the spirit of the Con most of the guests at the party like most of the more than 100000 convention goers that pour into San Diego every year near the end of July are here because they have strong personal andor professional interest in the sciencefiction and fantasy genres Several hundred casually attired network and studio executives producers A and Blist celebrities agents and journalists gather together in a relaxed environment on the fourth floor rooftop deck of the Hotel Solamar after two or three very busy days of travel panels interviews booth appearances and other activities including in most cases walking the enormous floor of the San Diego Convention Center and taking it all in which can fill hoursThe rooftop at San Diego39s Hotel Solamar site of the annual Sci FiEW party at ComicConAs celebrities enter the party they work the red carpet that runs the length of the pool They know that journalists won39t pounce on them once they are finished with their interviews so they mingle freely with each other and in general with anyone who wants to talk about the Con and related subjects Both years I have taken note of the fact that JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon two gods of the ComicCon crowd arrived early and stayed late Last year Whedon was overheard exclaiming quotSo this is what a party is like when it doesn39t suckquotThe crowd at this year39s party included Jamie Bamber Michael Trucco Katee Sackhoff James Callis and other cast members from Battlestar Galactica the three stars of FX39s It39s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a personal favorite of Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof who was also at the party and who moderated a panel for Sunny the next morning Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku Desperate Housewives and Dr Horrible star Nathan Fillion Kyle XY star Matt Dallas Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me creator Bryan Fuller Farscape star Ben Browder Heroes villain Zachary Scinto new Smallville villain Sam Witwer and the always approachable star of Chuck Zachary Levi When I left at 130 am Matthew Fox of Lost was still holding court in one of the pillowfilled cabanas that line two sides of the spacequotMuch like the convention the energy here is super positivequot Fillion told me quotEverybody39s excited Everybody39s here for a good time It39s not that LA 39where are they and what can they do for me39 vibequotThis is one of those rare parties that people attend not because they have to but because they want to and not so much to do business as to take a break from it and relax If the point of throwing a party is to build buzz then Sci Fi and EW have it down But this party also builds good will That39s much harder to do

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