Pretty much every other year since 2002, Graydon Carter — first as editor of Vanity Fair, then as founder and editor of Air Mail — has hosted a party during the Cannes Film Festival that has reliably been the most coveted invitation in a week packed with star-studded affairs. Hosted at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, the bacchanal was long a Mediterranean corrolary to VF’s Oscar Party, where A-listers were less likely to talk business and more likely to jump in the pool fully clothed.
The bash last made headlines when Carter’s then co-host — basic cable exec turned Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav, whose self-enriching stewardship of the studio earned him few friends in Hollywood — drew mockery for aping Carter’s style. This year, on May 19, Carter will co-host his first Cannes party since leaving Air Mail last October. His co-hosts this time will be the
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