{"id":53017,"date":"2017-10-25T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=53017"},"modified":"2017-10-25T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:02:06","slug":"morgan-night-builds-imaginative-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2017\/10\/25\/morgan-night-builds-imaginative-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Night builds imaginative community"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cCome with me and you\u2019ll be in a world of pure imagination\u201d (From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley)<\/i><\/p>\n
Like a real-life Willy Wonka, Hollywood writer, actor, producer, DJ, movie and music video director Morgan Higby Night has created a life that is built around the elements of color and fun that have influenced his childhood and young-adult years.<\/p>\n
From Disneyland to John Waters to Dolly Parton to burlesque to Cheech and Chong, there are larger-than-life influences and cultural icons that Night continues to celebrate.<\/p>\n
In whatever business venture draws his attention, there is a core of pure imagination and fun. His career has been colorful. He started his career at 19 as a DJ. At 27, he wrote, produced, directed and acted in his first feature film \u201cMatters of Consequence\u201d in 1999 and won the Movie Magazine Breakthrough Award. At 29, he owned a night club in New Orleans in the heart<\/p>\n