If I Only Had a Brain Guess Hollywood finally decided that the dumb-movie trend (Forrest Gump, Dumb & Dumber) was getting stupid because the new obsession in town is films about super-smart folk. Gwyneth Paltrow, who romanced Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love, is getting brainy with his older brother, Ralph, in Possession. They'll play a couple of modern academics who team up as sleuths (and then lovers) when they learn through newly discovered letters that the two Victorian poets they've been studying separately for years were carrying on a love affair. Neil LaBute--the director behind In the Company of Men and September's Cannes fave Nurse Betty--will direct the drama, which is based on the novel by A.S. Byatt. Meanwhile, Kate Winslet will star in the Michael Apted-directed Enigma as a brilliant young mathematician who tries to break the Enigma code recovered from a German U-boat during the thick of World War II (as fictionalized in U-571 last spring). Mick Jagger will be one of the producers (though, we hope, not one of the stars). Then there's A Beautiful Mind, which is based on Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., a bisexual mathematical mastermind who descended into madness but somehow managed to regain his sanity and eventually win a Nobel prize. Ron Howard (Ransom) may direct and there's been talk that Russell Crowe is interested in starring. If Crowe's high salary demand knocks him out of the running, it's rumored that Matt Damon (whose Good Will Hunting role gave him experience playing a man with a big brain), Edward Norton, Jude Law and Matthew McConaughey are interested in going to the head of the class.