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It's another good deed day for Taylor Swift

Also in Tattle: Billie turns 100, Chrissie pens a memoir, Carrie has a baby, and more

Philly-born Billie Holiday would be 100 this year, and there'll be big doin's at New York's Apollo.
Philly-born Billie Holiday would be 100 this year, and there'll be big doin's at New York's Apollo.Read more

ONE MORE THING Tattle loves about Taylor Swift: She seems to have 48 hours in her day.

Between the music and the fashion and the star-studded vacationing and birthday partying, the talk shows, impromptu performances and parties for fans, Swift seems to find more time to meet with small children than perhaps any celebrity out there.

Sure, other celebs do good deeds, but Swift sets the bar high. She's like a one-woman Make-a-Wish Foundation.

The latest day she brightened was that of 4-year-old cancer patient Jalene Salinas, of San Antonio.

For the little girl, who has not very long left to live, one of the requests on her bucket list was to dance to Taylor's "Shake It Off."

#ShakeItOffJalene was created to get Taylor to notice, and notice she did.

Monday night, Taylor FaceTimed with Jalene.

"I'm so sorry you're having a bad night. I'm so happy to talk to you, though, and I'm so happy you like 'Shake It Off,' " Swift told her. "You look beautiful tonight, you really do. You're just as pretty as your pictures."

The ailing child was quiet through most of the 20-minute chat, but her mother, Jennifer Arriaga, said it was a dream come true for the girl.

"We try to just be positive and happy for her," Arriaga told KENS-TV. "We don't want to waste any time that we do have with her."

Happy B-day, Lady Day

The Apollo Theater is planning events to commemorate the 100th birthday of blues and jazz singer Billie Holiday.

Billie was born on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, and died in 1959, in New York City, at age 44.

She performed at least two dozen times at the Apollo and will be inducted into its Walk of Fame on April 6.

Two-time Grammy winner Cassandra Wilson will give a special Apollo concert in honor of Holiday on April 10 and is releasing a Holiday tribute album, "Coming Forth by Day."

Tattle book club

Chrissie Hynde will tell the story of her life, Penguin Random House announced yesterday.

The Pretenders singer was working on "an incredibly frank" memoir that will come out Sept. 8, the publisher said. The book is currently untitled.

(It should come out in paperback and be called Book in Pocket.)

According to the publisher, Hynde will write about her childhood in Akron, Ohio, offer a "strikingly intimate portrayal" of the punk-rock scene of the 1970s and a "bittersweet" look back at the Pretenders, who had such hits as "Brass in Pocket" and "Talk of the Town," but lost two original band members to drug-related deaths.

Hynde said in a statement that she hoped her book would make people dance, have fun, possibly cry and maybe reach for a guitar.

Wow, we've never danced to a book before.

TATTBITS

* With most of her work now in California, Oprah has decided to close Harpo Studios in Chicago.

You get a file cabinet! You get a bookcase! You get a desk chair!

Jennifer Lawrence has reportedly beaten out Margot Robbie, Reese Witherspoon and Natalie Portman to snag the lead role in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of war photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War.

Deadline.com reports that the story will deal with Addario's time covering Darfur, the Taliban and the Iraq War, and being kidnapped by pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya.

Carrie Underwood gave birth to Isaiah Michael Fisher on Friday, and yesterday she announced it to the world on Twitter. She posted a picture of Isaiah, showing his tiny hand and a bit of his mouth.

(The photo would have been framed better if Lynsey Addario had taken it.)

Isaiah is the first child for Carrie and her husband, Mike Fisher, of the NHL's Nashville Predators.

* "Downton Abbey" publicists say that Maggie Smith was misinterpreted in remarks widely reported as suggesting she will leave the TV show after its sixth season later this year.

Smith told the Sunday Times newspaper that "I can't see how ('Downton') could go on."

Speaking of her character, she added: "I mean, I certainly can't keep going. To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now."

Milk Publicity said yesterday that Smith was a kidder, and "has always been on the record as saying she'll be with the show for as long as the show runs."

Producers haven't announced whether the show will even have a seventh season. Creator Julian Fellowes is due to script a U.S. period drama, "The Gilded Age."

* Londoner Tena Stivicic has won the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the oldest and most prestigious playwriting prize for women, for her play "3 Winters."

The play is about four generations of women growing up in Croatia after World War II, and not about Philadelphia this winter.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.