They'd won an Apollo Theater talent night the previous year and were working the "chitlin circuit" of black clubs when producer Bobby Taylor urged Motown to sign the group.
When Heidi Montag isn't working the paid-appearance circuit with bad boy beau Spencer Pratt, she keeps busy with a newly launched retail line, Heidiwood, and a fledgling singing career.
Mr. McCurdy, a 15-year veteran of the circuit, had spent more than a month working with a friend at night and on weekends to modify a brand-new Ski-Doo snowmobile with new cylinders, suspension system, shorter skis and other parts his first new sled in five years.
To extend the Bel-Air circuit to a larger group and possibly profit from it, a start-up called Prima Cinema is working with the studios to roll out a service that will make first-run studio films available the day they hit the big screen.