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Questlove gave Jay-Z a special iPod loaded with thousands of songs that span the alphabet, but he only got up to the letter J.

JAY-Z approved of Questlove’s baby gift. The Roots drummer told us at Saturday’s second annual Comedy Awards that his gift to Blue Ivy Carter was a big hit with the infant’s hip-hopping daddy. “Jay loves it,” said Quest, who was on hand at the Hammerstein Ballroom to perform with his band.

Back in January, the Afroed music aficionado told us he was still working on a specially curated iPod of 12,000 songs to present to Hova and Beyonce, but he didn’t quite reach his goal when he presented it to the new parents. “I put like 4,000 songs on it,” Quest said, adding, “Ironically, I only got to the letter J.” The bandleader and part-time deejay wanted the iPod to feature songs spanning the alphabet but said he’ll make up for the missing tracks another way. “We have a system now where I’ll re-up it once a year, every Christmas,” said Quest. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

ELLE MACPHERSON was on the arm of one billionaire on Saturday, and has another in mind to run for office with. The 48-year-old Australian supermodel was the date of British billionaire banker Roger Jenkins at the Vanity Fair White House Correspondents Assocation Dinner after-party. When we started to talk politics with the leggy lady, she told us: “I’d love to have Mayor Bloomberg as my running mate.” When we tracked down the Mayor to inform him what “The Body” told us, the 70-year-old Bloomberg rolled his eyes a bit and said: “It would be an honor.” We bet.

ED HARRIS doesn’t look like a man who cries a lot, but he shed some tears at the “Stars of Stony Brook Gala” on Wednesday. The actor, who played abstract art great Jackson Pollock in the 2000 film “Pollock,” was honored and got misty when he recounted the struggle he and his producer partners faced bringing the Oscar-nominated biopic to the screen. The benefit raised $3.6 million to insure the future upkeep of the late artist’s East Hampton home-turned-museum.

It also produced one revelation about the paint-splattered floor of the barn studio where Pollock worked. IMAX CEO and Stony Brook Foundation Board Chairman Rich Gelfand told the crowd that experts come from all over to study the floor because “it contains splatters that can be matched to particular masterpieces” created there. But he added: “Then I meet Jonathan Pollock, Jackson’s nephew, and he confesses that, as an 8 year-old, he used to sneak into the studio at night, splatter his own paint, then ride over it with his bike.”

DOES DANIEL RADCLIFFE have politics on his horizon? At the Bloomberg & Vanity Fair White House Correspondents Association Dinner after-party at the French Embassy Saturday night, Washington public-relations priestress Tammy Haddad introduced the “Harry Potter” star to Obama strategist Bill Knapp of SKDnickerbocker. “You would love me,” Radcliffe told Knapp. “I would be such a great candidate for you.” “Tory or Conservative?” asked Knapp, referring to Britain’s political parties. “I would be Labor,” replied the actor, before heading off into the star-studded room for another celebrity briefing.

KANYE and KIM have become so close they're starting to dress like each other. Headline-grabbing couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian dined at The Lion Friday night in Greenwich Village where a source says they arrived wearing "matching leather pants." Apparently West's weren't properly secured because as they entered the restaurant paparazzi nearly caught a side of West they've never seen before when the mercurial rapper's pants sagged a little too low. The pair "ate alone," according to the source, and after a quick meal headed back to West's downtown apartment.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON looks that good in her “The Avengers” costume for a reason. At Saturday’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the superhero movie at the Ziegfeld, actors weighed in on their co-stars’ ensembles. Clark Gregg told us it was Tom Hiddleston, who plays Norse god Loki, that had the most challenging getup. Hiddleston agreed and said it “comes in about 30 pieces of leather and chain mail, and someday, it will be in a museum." As for their curvy co-star, who plays Black Widow, Gregg said her process wasn’t as time-consuming: “I think they just took some wetsuit oil and slid [Scarlett] into that thing.”

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