7 pm: Benefit/Movies

Savor the legendary chili, cheese toast and Hollywood memories at “Chasen’s at the Movies,” a Westwood Village Rotary Club Foundation benefit set in the original West Hollywood Chasen’s restaurant. Dan Price, owner of the Hollywood Film Registry, will provide a short feature and film clips, along with a program introducing celebrities whose clips will be shown. Hollywood memorabilia will also be sold. And for more dish on Hollywood’s favorite haunt, “Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s,” a new documentary on Chasen’s by filmmaking couple Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, opens this weekend.

* “Chasen’s at the Movies” Benefit, 9039 Beverly Blvd. (at Doheny Drive), West Hollywood. $25. (800) 487-2431 for reservations.

* “Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s” opens Friday at the Laemmle Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 274-6869.

8 pm: Music

The American Youth Symphony bids farewell to its irrepressible, longtime conductor, Mehli Mehta, who has now inspired several generations of young orchestral players. Mehta pere (he is the father of Zubin Mehta) will be 90 in September. For this showcase, he leads display pieces by Saint-Saens (the “Organ” Symphony) and Ravel (Suite No. 2 from “Daphnis et Chloe,” and “La Valse”). The bonus: This concert, like all AYS events at UCLA, is admission-free.

* Mehli Mehta conducts the American Youth Symphony at Royce Hall, UCLA. Free. (310) 476-2825.

8 pm: Movies & Music

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will perform composer Carl Davis’ score accompanying a screening of Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent classic “The General” at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. Co-chairing the event are director Rob Reiner and Roger Mayer, president and CEO of Turner Entertainment. A buffet supper will follow the screening.

* “The General,” accompanied by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. $25-$200. (213) 622-7001, Ext. 275.

11 am: Jazz

Orange County becomes the smooth jazz capital of the universe Saturday and Sunday when the fifth annual Newport Beach Jazz Festival plays through on the Hyatt Newporter hotel’s golf course in Newport Beach. Saxophonists Boney James, Candy Dulfer and Gato Barbieri, vocalist Patti Austin and the rhythm-happy Latin ensemble of Ray Obiedo are among the 14 bands set to appear over two days.

* Glen Ellen Winery Hyatt Newporter Jazz Festival, Hyatt Newporter Hotel, 1107 Jamboree Road, Newport Beach. $25 each day, two-day pass, $40; VIP two-day pass, $85. Children under 12, $5. (714) 650-5483.

8 pm: Theater

“The Dock Brief,” John Mortimer’s delightful, frothy satire of the British legal profession, returns for another run, with John O’Connell and F. William Parker reprising their winning roles as a dotty murderer and an inept court-appointed barrister, respectively.

* “The Dock Brief,” Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena. Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. through June 14. $15. (888) 441-5979.

8 pm: Pop Music

It’s been 27 years since Don McLean drove his Chevy to the levee, but he hasn’t let “American Pie’s” status as a pop-culture phenomenon sidetrack him from a productive career. The singer-songwriter has enough other hits and the folk roots to keep himself and his audience satisfied.

* Don McLean at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos. $25-$40. (562) 916-8500.

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FREEBIE: Festival of the Pacific Rim at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 1 p.m. (626) 449-2742.