CLARKSON FALLS FOR HER CO-STARS

OSCAR hopeful PATRICIA CLARKSON was so taken with her young male cast on the set of new sports movie MIRACLE she felt like a teenage girl again.

The actress' young co-stars, who play members of America's 1980 Olympic gold-winning ice hockey squad, were both handsome and polite, and Clarkson couldn't help but fall for them all.

She also found actor KURT RUSSELL, who plays the winning coach HERB BROOKS in the patriotic film, eye catching.

Clarkson says, "I was the only woman around and there were these very wonderful young men and this wonderful hot man (Russell). They were all really sweet and lovely.

"They were gentlemen. They were like, 'Oh, hello Miss Clarkson,' and I'd be like, 'Please call me Patti.' As for Kurt, he is the only man alive who can make 1970s big plaid pants sexy.

"Sometimes, if I knew all the guys were going to be around I would wear something a little different to the set that day."