French Startup Gives Graydon Carter a Scare

Thanks to a misguided PR stunt staged Friday at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Graydon Carter will have an extra topic of conversation at tonight’s annual Vanity Fair Cannes Film Festival party, set for the same seaside location. It all started when a flag-bearing dinghy carrying six men outfitted in strange-looking flack vests and helmets suddenly swooshed into the hotel’s dock area during yesterday’s lunch hour.