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By Brian Morrissey, Eleftheria Parpis and Barbara Lippert
The hottest ticket in Cannes this year wasn't to a wild beach party, but a seat to hear the Media Person of the Year. It was fitting that, unlike previous years when Cannes honored titans like Viacom's Sumner Redstone and Yomiuri Shimbun's Tsuneo Watanabe, the crowds were there to gawk at a 26-year-old geek wearing a T-shirt and sneakers who started a Web site in his dorm room.
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