{"id":2253595,"date":"2026-01-27T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2253595"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:08:24","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-review-harlem-renaissance-doc-may-be-the-most-thrilling-party-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-review-harlem-renaissance-doc-may-be-the-most-thrilling-party-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once Upon a Time in Harlem\u2019 Review: Harlem Renaissance Doc May Be the Most Thrilling Party of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At some point this year, you may be lucky enough to receive an invitation. Here is what it will say:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are invited to a cocktail party at the home of Duke Ellington<\/a>. It will be a gathering of artists and intellectuals\u2014the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. I hope you will join me for this special afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The invitation will come from August of 1972, and it will be signed by filmmaker William Greaves<\/a>. RSVP immediately and without hesitation. It may well be the most thrilling event you attend all year.<\/p>\n

Today, Greaves is probably best known as the director of the avant-garde meta-documentary \u201cSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One<\/a>.\u201d But he…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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