Left feet, long lines and loving celebs at balls
AP – Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden dance at the ‘Biden Home States Ball’, one of many inaugural …
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WASHINGTON – Joe Biden wants to make one thing clear: He can’t dance.
Biden joked about his two left feet at multiple balls Tuesday night.
“The thing that frightens me the most (is) I’m going to have to stand in that circle and dance in a minute,” he said at the Commander in chief Ball. At that, he laughed and did a quick sign of the cross.
At the Western Ball, he said, “Now you are going to see I can’t dance.” And at the Neighborhood Ball, he joked about killing time to avoid dancing.
“The last thing you need is to have a vice president sandwiched between a brand new president and all his star power up there. I learned a long time ago when to hush up. If you turn around and look at that screen, they’ve got me down to 22 seconds. The reason I want to keep talking is because I can’t dance,” he said.
But dance he did, stiffly, with wife Jill to “Have I Told You Lately.”
“I may not be able to dance, but I sure like holding her,” he said.
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Tabloid speculation has focused on the status of Marc Anthony’s relationship with Jennifer Lopez, but there was no sign of trouble at the Western Ball Tuesday night.
For his last number, Anthony thrilled the crowd by inviting “my wife” to sing with him.
Lopez appeared on stage in a white draped gown with flashes of gold and one shoulder bare.
They kissed on the lips before launching into an upbeat love ballad in Spanish, occasionally gazing into each other’s eyes and caressing one another.
Earlier in the night he talked about her before singing a song for her.
“I wrote this next song about Jennifer. I must have been psychic,” Anthony said. He said he wrote the song, “You Sang to Me,” about 10 years ago.
“She didn’t get the point,” Anthony said, “but eventually it worked.”
At the end of the couple’s duet, they kissed again.
“Man, she’s cute,” Anthony said after Lopez walked offstage. He then bid the crowd goodnight.
• Erica Werner
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