Buried in next week’s lead story about tough times facing next year’s Sundance Sundance Film Festival, already posted online at Variety’s website, is the revelation that Jeff Hill, NYC’s top indie film publicist and a 16-year Sundance veteran, won’t be making the trip to Park City. “The costs outweigh the returns,” Hill tells the trade paper. “I spend 40 to 50 grand to get a 5 grand profit. It’s just not worth it.” Variety reporters Dade Hayes and Michael Jones add: “While cost is his primary reason, Hill also said the lingering issues over Prop 8 played a factor, too.” As we’ve noted here for the past month, there have been some calls for a boycott of the festival — along with other Utah tourist attractions — because of the Mormon church’s substantial financial support of the successful campaign to overturn gay marriage in California. Last week, the Queer Lounge, another Sundance fixture, said it would be returning and issued a statement supporting the festival, which has long showcased GLBT titles. It just won’t seem like Sundance without the no-hype Jeff — who helped films like “Napoleon Dynamite” break through to huge success — or the inimitable Jeremy Walker, who closed his New York-based PR firm earlier this year to focus on unit publicity out of L.A.