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CINEMAX is prepping crime series “C.B. Strike.” About a wounded vet turned private dick in a junky office — but, aha! — this wartime MP is a smartass at collaring badasses. Based on books by? Robert Galbraith. Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling pseudonym ... EX-White House elf Paul Manafort, caught playing maybe potsy with the Russians, is maybe eating more than crow. Or caviar. Witnesses say he got faaattt . . . EVERYBODY’s writing a book. More writing them than reading them. Starletettes hustling bras, hookers pushing tweezers are doing books. Now comes

Mark Bego’s “Eat Like a Rock Star.” More than 100 rock ’n’ roll recipes. I mean, please. Maybe yummies begin like “Saute two lines?”

ELECTRIC-SHOCK therapy for anyone who ever says they saw Anthony Scaramucci in a confessional.

Said by only anyone in New York, kids, only anyone in New York.