Alan Peppard

If Joyce Goss of Goss Gallery is a little hygiene deficient during the holidays, you can blame the Beatles. She was part of a group of Dallasites who went to London where her brother-in-law, Kenny Goss , and his fiancé, George Michael, hosted them for the last concert of George's European tour.

Sunday night at Wembley Arena, Joyce was backstage with George and Kenny when she met another concertgoer named Paul McCartney. After she shook hands with the former mop top, she sat down with the Dallas crowd and proclaimed, "I am never washing my hand again." {gt}{gt}{gt}

Sitting with the Dallas group Sunday was actor Joseph Fiennes, star of Shakespeare in Love. The group included Joyce and her husband, Tim Goss (Kenny's brother); Tim's law partner Mike Bowers and his wife, Sharon; Dallas businessman Brian Williams (grandson of local insurance titan Charles Sammons) and his steady, Kim Carroll; Dallas PR veteran Barbara Buzzell with her beau, door manufacturer Roger Cade; and Goss Gallery director Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi.

The group was invited to two shows. On Friday night, Kenny and Grammy-nominated video producer Caroline True hosted the group for champagne, miniburgers and fries in Claridge's. Then, it was off to George's first concert of the weekend at Wembley.

Saturday night, Kenny took the Dallas group to Cipriani and picked up the check for 18 people (nice!). Sunday, after the last show of the tour, George and Kenny hosted the group for a party at a small eatery two blocks from their Highgate home.

Closer to home, bands that rocked the Dallas club scene in the '60s are gathering for their second annual Legends reunion. The Dec. 30 show at Poor David's Pub will feature veterans from long-gone nightspots like the Cellar and the Studio Club.

At last count, the lineup included Kenny and the Kasuals, the Exels, the DeVilles, the Nightcaps, the Novas, the American Classics, the Dead Pyrates Society and Nitzinger.

Last week, let's say you were driving through the Preston Center area. You saw a familiar face hailing a cab and wondered, "Could that someone be That Girl?" Yep, Marlo Thomas, known to you '60s kids as the star of ABC's That Girl, was in town staying at the Hilton Park Cities.

Ms. Thomas carries the torch for her late father, actor Danny Thomas, who founded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She came here to surprise 1,200 employees of Dallas-based Brinker International. The owner of Chili's restaurants presented her with the largest corporate donation ever given to St. Jude, $5.2 million. And almost like a scripted episode of That Girl, a car service foul-up left Marlo stranded without a ride. The plucky actress grabbed a cab and hotfooted it to the company meeting.