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Harry’s Home: Not wanting to wear out his welcome in his home town, Harry Belafonte hasn’t appeared in New York in 30 years. But that changed Wednesday night when he appeared at Avery Fisher Hall in a benefit for the Ensemble Studio Theater. “Being born in New York and having got my start here, I had painted myself into a corner,” he told the New York Times. “One day I woke up and realized there was nothing I hadn’t done here. I decided I would only come back at those moments when I had something significant to do or say.” Belafonte has been busy lately with movie deals, and will make August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” into a film.