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The Starr Report

There could be a golf game with President Obama in Steve Harvey’s future.

Harvey’s main guest on tomorrow’s “Steve Harvey” (3 p.m./Ch. 4) is First Lady Michelle Obama, who talks (among other things) about how difficult it is for her to find a suitable birthday present for her husband.

“He’s hard to shop for and I’ve gotten him every golf thing that you can imagine, so I had to really dig deep on this one,” she tells Harvey.

“Can I tell you something? That’s one of the things on the bucket list for me,” Harvey responds. “To play golf with your husband.”

“Oh, I could give that as a gift,” says the First Lady.

Hey — you never know.

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Book ’em: No one has ever accused Patty Neger of shying away from the “big get” when it comes to booking authors for “Good Morning America.”

Well, she’s done it again. And again.

With the arrival of October (and beyond) comes a list of, well, A-list authors who’ll be appearing all this month on “GMA” — including Stephen Colbert (“Rebecoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t”), Jenny McCarthy (“Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic”) and Kenny Rogers (“Luck or Something Like It”), all of whom will appear live today in the show’s Times Square studio. That follows on the heels of Monday’s guest, Arnold Schwarzenegger, discussing his new book.

They’ll be followed by Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabby Giffords, who’ll visit “GMA” Oct. 8 to promote his new children’s book, “Mousetronaut”; Stanley Tucci (“The Tucci Cookbook”), who drops by Oct. 10; Valerie Bertinelli (“One Dish at a Time”) on Oct. 16; Rod Stewart (“Rod: The Autobiography of Rod Stewart”) on Oct. 24; and JR Martinez (“Full of Heart”) on Oct. 30.

Next month, “GMA” will welcome “Modern Family” co-star Rico Rodriguez, Kirstie Alley and Dolly Parton, among others (and, yes, they’ve all written books).

More . . . There’s a new book, “Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones,” out this week (Chronicle Books). It’s being dubbed as a “visual companion” to the series, with behind-the-scenes stories and details. The tome was written by series scribe Bryan Cogman, with a foreword by show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and a preface by George R.R. Martin.

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I don’t know if there’s any truth to a post-Emmys bump for any particular show — but “Homeland” is making a good case.

The Showtime series, which garnered Emmy statuettes for stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis — as well as Emmys for Best Drama and Best Writing — got off to a nice start Sunday night, with its second-season premiere snaring 1.7 million viewers at 10 p.m. That was up 60 percent from its Season One premiere, and it pulled in another 300,000 viewers with a subsequent repeat.

“Dexter,” meanwhile, also performed well. The series, starring Michael C. Hall, pulled in 2.4 million viewers at 9 p.m. for its seventh-season premiere, and averaged another 600,000 viewers in its repeat telecast.

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“American Idol” won’t kick off its new season until January with new judges Mariah Carey, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj — but the show’s creator, Simon Fuller, will be seeing stars when he’s feted, twice, by the Children’s Health Fund.

The mobile health care organization, founded by musician Paul Simon and Dr. Irwin Redlener, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this Thursday with a gala at the Hilton New York. Fuller, who’s helped raise $22.5 million for CHF through “American Idol’s” annual special, “Idol Gives Back,” will receive his honor from actress (and CHF friend) Julianne Moore.

Then, later that night at Radio City, Fuller will be cited again at a CHF anniversary concert fronted by Simon, Stevie Wonder, Sting, James Taylor, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Edie Brickell and Ruben Blades.

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Step by Step Foundation founder Liliane Stransky and actress Gabrielle Union attended the reception and screening of the upcoming PBS special, “Half the Sky,” at the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami. The special follows Union, Eva Mendes, America Ferrera, Meg Ryan, Olivia Wild and Diane Lane as they meet “inspiring and courageous women” fighting for women’s rights around the world.

Stransky was instrumental in helping to build an elementary school in Lahaie, Haiti, which opened just after the country experienced a devastating earthquake in 2010. At the reception and screening of “Half the Sky,” Union talked up the PBS special and was joined by Stransky in discussing how the movie will (hopefully) alter perceptions.

The second part of the two-part documentary airs tonight at 9 on PBS and is based on the book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”

Speaking of PBS, Jane Velez-Mitchell and Paris and Christopher Barclay were among the honorees at last night’s In the Life Media gala at the New York Historical Society (Central Park West), hosted by Thomas Roberts. The organization’s TV show, “In the Life,” ends its 20-year run on PBS in December (it premiered in 1992).

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Last, but not least:

* Parliament Funkadelic legend Bootsy Collins will be here on Thursday at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan for the launch of UMIGO, which was created by “Yo Gabba Gabba!” executive producer Michael Polis. UMIGO is funded by the US Dept. of Education through a Ready to Learn grant . . . “John Fugelsang: So That Happened,” a roundup of the week’s events (good and bad), premieres this Friday (6 and 9 p.m.) on Current TV . . . Roger Corman’s New Horizon Pictures is planning a slate of sports-related TV biopics, starting with Hall of Fame fireballer Bob Feller . . . British comedian Simon Amstell premieres his first stand-up special, “Simon Amstell: Do Nothing,” this Saturday (Oct. 6) on BBC America (11 p.m.). He’s now touring and arrives in New York next month with his new show, “Numb.”