Go Chuck, go

Getting Chuck Berry to come to Boston to support Right Turn, the Arlington-based recovery center for artists and performers, seemed like enough to ask of the 81-year-old rock legend. So the organizers of last night's benefit concert at the Berklee Performance Center let Berry off the hook and left the VIP party and the schmoozing to an all-star band assembled to back up Berry. Among those on hand were organizer Woody Giessmann, Right Turn's founder and former drummer with Del Fuegos; keyboardist Chuck Leavell of the Rolling Stones and the Allman Brothers Band; drummer Simon Kirke of Bad Company; Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith; former Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau; former Dropkick Murphys guitarist Marc Orrell; singer-songwriter Kate Taylor; and Doug Bell of Bellevue Cadillac. They were joined by car czar Ernie Boch Jr. and his band the Automatics, and spent most of Saturday rehearsing in Boch's private plane hangar in Norwood.

Stars out and about

Taking a break from filming "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," actor Matthew McConaughey was at Fenway for Saturday's Red Sox win over the Yankees. Also in the house was German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who threw out the ceremonial first pitch, and "Arli$$" actor Robert Wuhl. . . . Yankees captain Derek Jeter may have been on Sox territory over the weekend, but you wouldn't know it from the young women who spotted the shortstop in the window of the Four Seasons Hotel late Saturday night. Shortly after Jeter was seated at a table in the Bristol Lounge a group of women started banging on the windows and yelling out their love for the All-Star. The hotel's staff quickly moved Jeter and his late-night dinner-mates to another part of the lounge, where Jeter was safer but surrounded by Sox fans, including Jordan's Furniture pitchman Eliot Tatelman, who was still wearing his Red Sox jacket. . . . "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator Larry David was spotted hanging out at Scampo, chef Lydia Shire's new eatery in the Liberty Hotel, after the Yankees game on Friday night.

Joining forces for Darfur

Matt Damon joined Thandie Newton, Joely Richardson, and other A-listers for a campaign that is part of yesterday's "Global Day for Darfur," marking the fifth anniversary of genocide in the Sudan region. Damon was among the celebrities to appear in public service announcements. In his spot, Damon destroys a dollhouse with a baseball bat to draw attention to the number of children who have lost their lives. "After the genocide in Rwanda we all shook our heads and said never again," the Oscar-winner is quoted as saying. "Today, as killings mount in Darfur we need to make never again a priority and demand protection for the most vulnerable."

Chris Lemmon, the unmistakable progeny of Oscar-winner Jack Lemmon, regaled the crowd of the American Cancer Society's fund-raiser on Saturday with stories of his dad and of the days when his grandmother held court at the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The actor and author of "A Twist of Lemmon" also paid tribute to his father, who died of cancer, at the swanky soiree at the Fairmont Copley Plaza that raised $500,000. Earlier Saturday, Lemmon was given a tour of the Society's AstraZeneca Hope Lodge Center on Huntington Avenue that is slated to open in the fall to provide free care and support to cancer patients and their caregivers.

All the ruckus on Exeter Street in the Back Bay on Friday and Saturday was to film a scene for "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" in which Michael Douglas gets slapped for making advances at women at a nightclub. The crew took over Brian Lesser's Saint nightclub and restaurant to shoot the scene. . . . Actor Owen Wilson, who had dated "Bride Wars" star Kate Hudson, was spotted in town over the weekend. . . . And over at the former Christmas Dove Shop in the Quincy Marketplace, "The Proposal" star Ryan Reynolds was able to avoid attracting attention as he filmed for the romantic comedy that also stars Sandra Bullock.

Jackie Bruno, the 23-year-old from Freetown who represented Massachusetts in Friday night's Miss USA pageant, placed in the top 10 but fell short of her dream of taking the national title. A veteran of the state's pageant system, Bruno was a former Miss Teen USA from Massachusetts who went on to finish third in the national competition. Bruno, a BU alum, made it through the first two rounds during Friday night's competition at the Planet Hollywood & Casino in Las Vegas.

Prolific actor Clifton Powell, an Emerson alum, will be honored at the 19th annual Unity Breakfast for his support of urban youth programs. Also being honored by the Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts at the morning fete on Saturday are the Rev. Ray Hammond, a physician and cofounder of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Anthony Scott, the first African-American to serve as chief of police in Holyoke.

The crowd of some 1,300 attendees at Saturday night's gala at the Museum of Fine Arts pressed toward the galleries to catch a glimpse of Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina Federica de Borbón y Grecia as she walked with artist Antonio Lopez Garcia through the Foster Gallery admiring his work. But when the press crush proved too much for Garcia's granddaughters, Carmen and Aurora, the princess' maternal instincts kicked in and she took the young girls by the hands and moved them away from the flashes of the cameras. The MFA had a decidedly Spanish flair for the opening of the new exhibit "El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III." And the visit marked a return for the princess' husband, His Excellency Don Iñaki Urdangarín, duke of Palma de Mallorca, who studied at Harvard. The visiting royals hosted a private dinner at the MFA on Saturday in the Koch Gallery for about 100 VIPs including Senator Ted Kennedy and his wife, Vicki. Yesterday, Garcia's family was treated to a special Duck Boat tour that stopped at all the usual spots but detoured to the museum to pick up some family members and see Garcia's work. And on Friday, as the princess arrived at the Taj Boston Hotel, she was greeted by another famous Spaniard, tenor Placido Domingo, who has a concert tonight at the Citi Performing Arts Center's Wang Theatre. Domingo told the media that he had just seen the Infanta's parents, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, in Madrid on Thursday.

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