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Latino Inaugural Celebration Not High Profile Enough?

WASHINGTON

Latino entertainers Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony graced “la alfombra roja” — the red carpet — at Union Station Sunday to give a Hispanic flair to the inauguration pre-celebration Sunday.

They posed quickly for cameras with no visible signs of the marital distress that tabloids have been buzzing about recently. The two singers entertained the crowd at the end of the night.

Lopez introduced Anthony after making a pitch for the new president.

“Yes we can,” she said to the cheering crowd. “We all stood together and said ‘Yes we will.'”

Lopez, wearing an electric blue strapless gown, towered over her husband Anthony, who wore pinstripes. Her piled-high updo added a few more inches.

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