Finally, a story involving Hannah Montana concert tickets that has a HAPPY ending.
In the wake of the recent Hannah Montana concert ticket brouhaha in which a Texas mother helped her daughter write an essay filled with lies (it essentially recounted a sob story of how the girl’s father died in war-torn Iraq, only the dad is alive and well and knew little of the ruse) it’s nice to see that there are still some people in this world who live honorably.
One such person lives not too far away from me in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His name is Jim Kacmarcik–an unassuming businessman who has proven that he has a heart of gold.
Hannah Montana mania descended on our part of the world a few weeks back when tickets for the Disney star’s concert sold out in less than 15 minutes.
When Kacmarcik heard that the hottest act in the country was coming to Milwaukee he rented out a suite at the concert venue. But, instead of filling it with his business associates’ daughters he donated it to deserving children.
For the past few days Kacmarcik has been giving away free concert tickets to children with life threatening illnesses. A total of 18 sick children will get to see the Hannah Montana concert thanks to the business owner’s generosity. And just yesterday, Kacmarcik presented a pair of tickets to a girl named… Hannah.
Speaking of Milwaukee… the Midwestern city is about to go Hollywood thanks to timing, new tax incentives and… Johnny Depp!
The award-winning actor will soon get a crash course in Wisconsin winters when he travels to the state to shoot a new movie in which he portrays Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger.
“Public Enemies” stars Depp as the robber whose Midwest crime spree ended when FBI agents shot him to death in Chicago in July 1934. The film is a screen adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s 2004 book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.” The book describes the FBI’s transformation when confronted with crime sprees of Dillinger, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd and Lester “Baby Face Nelson” Gillis. Dillinger and his gang pulled off bank robberies across the Midwest and used an isolated Wisconsin lodge as a hideout.
The movie is scheduled to start filming in March and is the first major production to come to Wisconsin since new tax incentives for the film industry took effect January 1st.
Stage tuned for future blogs on my attempts to meet Depp.