Reports on the social affairs surrounding the Cannes Film Festival don’t usually interest me much, but WaPo’s William Booth does a great job of placing the annual Vanity Fair party in perspective:

The annual Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles is now an institution filled to the rafters with Hollywood celebrities, our celebrities, the ones in our tabloids. This Cannes VF gig is different. Here it’s London socialite Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, daughter of Lady Annabel Goldsmith. She’s hot. She’s smart. She’s rich. She’s huge. But we are going to confess this as an innocent abroad: We kinda had to Google her.

Read the entire clever piece.