Brown Alum to Play Violin on Tonight Show

Lili Haydn, a 1992 graduate of Brown University, who’s now a rock music violinist, is scheduled to join Jodie Foster and Cedric the Entertainer on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight at 11:35 p.m. on Channel 7, 10.. Haydn will perform a number from her new album, Place Between Places.

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Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf the Wizard in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is hoping to reprise the role in another tale from Middle Earth.

A fan asked McKellen on the actor’s official Web site if he would play the role of Gandalf in The Hobbit, which is being produced by Peter Jackson, director of the Rings trilogy.

Jackson reached a deal with New Line Cinema late last year to make two films of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, a prequel to the blockbuster Rings trilogy.

McKellen Compiled by Lynne Chaput from staff and wire reports.

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