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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. (AP) —
After Miss America 1999, Nicole
Johnson, relinquishes her crown later
this month, she gets to go home.
For Bonnie Siigany the reign never
stops. It only pauses long enough for her
to catch up on her own personal life
before resuming her responsibilities as
aide, confidante, road manager, mother
and 24-hour adviser to the world
famous beauty queen.
She is one of two women who alter
nate each month as Miss America’s offi
cial travel companion.
“It’s the best job,” said former com
panion Ellie Taylor, 72, who held the job
for 17 years. “You get paid to see the
world and go to all these wonderful
places and meet all these celebrities. But
it’s a hectic month. You need a month off
to recuperate.”
Sirgany — who temporarily gives
up her duties to Michele Brennan next
month — sometimes logs as many as
20,000 miles a month accompanying
Miss America on her year-long national
speaking tour.
While Miss America gives speech
es, poses for pictures and signs auto
graphs, Siigany tips the porters, writes
expense reports, runs interference and
provides a shoulder to cry on when Miss
America gets homesick.
“A lot of tears have been shed on
these shoulders,” she said. “She gives
the speeches, I handle the problems. If
someone has to be a bad guy, it has to be
the traveling companion: ‘I’m sorry, but
there will be no more autographs.’ She
can’t say that.”
Sirgany will take another winner
under her wing Sept. 18, when a new
Miss America is crowned. Contestants
for the 79th annual pageant begin arriv
ing in Atlantic City today.
Typically, Miss America makes one
or two appearances a day, but the travel
never ends. In July, Miss Johnson visit
ed 14 states, some twice.
The sponsoring group that requests
Miss America’s appearance is responsi
ble for providing two first-class airline
tickets, a two-bedroom hotel suite, three
meals a day for two people and trans
portation in a vehicle with $1 million
worth of insurance.
Sometimes the accommodations
are posh, but not always.
“I’ve slept everywhere fropi a
$ 15,000-a-night suite at the Plaza Hotel
in New York to a cardboard box at a col
lege campus in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and
everywhere in between,” Sirgany said.
After each appearance, Sirgany
reports to pageant officials on how Miss
America performed and how well she
was prepared.
“You worry more about them than
you do about your own kids,” Sirgany
said. “It’s somebody else’s child, and
you’re responsible for them 24 hours a
day.”
Her job has taken her to classrooms,
state capitols, amusement parks, home
less shelters, AIDS hospices and juve
nile detention centers.
“Once, we were locked on death
row with five inmates who killed their
husbands,” she said.
And the perks?
“I’ve met four presidents: Ford,
Carter, Bush and Clinton. And I went to
Clinton’s inaugural,” she said. “I’ve
been to the Super Bowl four times, the
World Series once, the Rose Bowl, the
Grand Prix, the Belmont Stakes and the
American Cup.”
‘Sixth Sense’ captures
fifth week at the top
LOS ANGELES (AP) - “The
Sixth Sense” remained the top box
office draw for the fifth straight week
end with a record-breaking take for the
four-day Labor Day weekend.
“The Sixth Sense,” starring Bruce
Willis, is the tale of a tx>y who’s a mag
net for the walking dead. The movie
took in $28.5 million, according to
industry estimates Monday.
That’s nearly as much as the gross
es for the rest of the top five films,
which took a combined $30.1 million.
“I’ve never really seen a film at this
time of year performing so consistent
ly and in such a big way,” said Paul
Dergarabedian, president of Exhihitor
Relations Co. Inc., which tracks the
box office. “It’s become one of those
films like ‘Titanic’ or ‘Phantom
Menace’... that just totally captures the
imaginations of movie-goers.”
Disney, the film’s distributor, again
revised its expectations for the film,
now up to a minimum final gross of
$250 million.
Only one new movie, the Skeet
Ulrich-Cuba Gooding Jr. thriller
“Chill Factor,” cracked the top 10 this
weekend, grossing $5.7 million for
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seen a film at this
time of year
performing so
consistently and in
such a big way”
Paul Dergarabedian
box office tracker
sixth place.
“Runaway Bride” was second with
$8.6 million, “The 13th Warrior” was
third with $8.4 million, “Bowfinger”
was fourth with $7 million and “The
Thomas Crown Affair” was fifth with
$6.1 million.
It W3$ a fitting end to a record sum
mer movie season. The movie industry
did about $3 billion in business from
Memorial Day Weekend through
Labor Day, topping the previous high
of $2.6 billion in the summer of 1998.
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