Boy bands both with CAA

BACK TO THE FUTURE? Regarding the much-ballyhooed battle of Brit boy bands pitting One Direction against The Wanted (IDJ), both acts are repped worldwide by Rob Light’s CAA. David Zedeck handles both acts (as well as Justin Bieber) in the U.S. out of CAA’s New York offices. Given the out-of-the-box commercial potency of these two groups, could we possibly be witnessing the genesis of a phenomenon on the order of Backstreet Boys-NSYNC back in the late ’90s? (3/22a)