Jennifer Lawrence as Patty Hearst? That's the talk

Biopic of heiress kidnapped by radicals in works

Young readers, if any, won’t remember Patty Hearst, the California celebrity heiress who was kidnapped in 1974 by radical desperadoes calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.

It was a huge story when she succumbed to brainwashing and reinvented herself as “Tania,” parroting radical slogans and toting a carbine in bank robberies. She was arrested in 1975 and convicted after a media extravaganza of a trial, but Bill Clinton, always a pushover for a pretty face, pardoned her.

All this ancient history may soon be big again, because Jennifer Lawrence could star in a new biopic. Esteemed author Jeffrey Toobin is writing a Patty Hearst book, and Deadline.com says there has been talk — only talk, so far — about J Law starring.

It’s official: This sixth season of Downton Abbey, coming to British TV in September, will be the last one. Writer Julian Fellowes and exec producer Gareth Neame confirmed the news the other day. The final episode will be seen over there on Christmas Day.

However, Neame and Fellowes are already talking about a big-screen version — “definitely something that we are contemplating,” says Neame — and maybe a TV spinoff.

Write if you get work: Ellar Coltrane, the young man we watched grow up in the movie Boyhood, is cashing in. He has signed with Wilhelmina Models, the N.Y. Post reports, and work is coming in fast.

Hedi Slimane of Saint Laurent photographed him for V Man magazine, and next he’ll be in L’Uomo Vogue, in photos by renowned snapshot-artist-to-the-stars Bruce Weber. And Paper mag will be putting him in their next Most Beautiful People issue.

Russell Brand, rapidly becoming a legend in his own mind, has decided to remake Western society. He has started by opening a coffee shop.

The Trew Era, in London’s Hackney district, will be “a place for revolutionaries and humanitarians to unite,” Brand said at the opening. The Guardian was there.

With profit a dirty word, the launch was paid for with the profi … uhhh, with the revenue from Russell’s new book, Revolution.

And then there’s the drugrehab angle: “This cafe is going to be run by people in abstinencebased recovery … We’re going to start more and more of these social enterprises and eventually we will trade with one another in our own currency, we’re going to get our own systems, our own federations, our own authorities.”

He’s 39.

Drew Barrymore, mother of two young daughters, tells Glamour mag that Dr. Seuss is good for the new-mom blues:

“After making two babies, holy cow, does your body do some crazy stuff. It’s hard to stay positive and love yourself … everything’s saggy and weird. But you think about how beautiful it is that you’re able to make children.

“When I lose sight of that, I exercise, read Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go! and spend time with my kids. Then I start to see things that are bigger than myself.”

She’s 40. Olivia is 2, Frankie turns 1 next month.