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A SILLY SITE

“The Blair Witch Project” co-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez are in pre-production on their new film “Heart of Love”--it won’t start shooting until early summer--but they’ve already created a mythology, a la “Blair Witch,” which they’ve posted on their Web site https://www.holthemovie.com. The site consists of eight chapters that include journal entries from the filmmakers about the “enlightenment” experience they had while staying at Coombe Abbey in Coventry, England, in fall 1999. But be warned: Unlike the content of the “Blair Witch” site, whose serious tone led users to believe that the disappearance of the three student filmmakers was a real-life mystery, the “HOL” site is silly and rife with adolescent humor.

BREAKING THE SILENCE

Academy Award nomination ballots are now in, and although the bean counters at PricewaterhouseCoopers are renowned for their secrecy, at least one veteran academy member has publicly shared one of his votes. Backstage at the Golden Globe Awards, Jack Lemmon, a two-time Oscar winner (“Mister Roberts,” “Save the Tiger”), declared that he had cast one of his five votes for best actor in a leading role for 24-year-old Tobey Maguire for his turn in “The Cider House Rules.” Maguire plays a young man who leaves his orphanage home and surrogate father (Michael Caine) to make his way in the world. Academy members are advised not to discuss their votes in public, let alone with the media, but it’s highly unlikely that the group would chastise a long-standing and distinguished member like Lemmon.

WE’RE TAKING THE FALL

CAA agent Robert Bookman faxed to let us know that the film “Enemy at the Gates,” currently in production in Berlin, is not a romance set during the fall of St. Petersburg, as we reported here on Jan. 23, but a “duel of wills set during the Battle of Stalingrad.” In fact, it turns out Quick Cuts is in need of a good world history review because there was never a “fall of St. Petersburg.”