Sat. Sept. 1

Jackie O had been an icon for us long before Human Sexual Response wrote that classic couplet back in the late-''70s - "I want to be Jackie Onassis/I want to wear a pair of dark sunglasses." But that put her image back in the thinking punk rocker's eye, and if that thinking punk rocker was, well, me it took me back to a time when, at age 4, I met JFK and his wife at campaign stop in Bangor, Maine. Three years later, I  was sent home from class as the teacher gave us the terrible news. And there was that Zapruder film. The guy who just happened to be filming this innocuous motorcade. (This was before camera phones, YouTube and constant security surveillance. I guess we were a different country. Heck, we didn't even have a fully integrated interstate system. We barely had integration. But I digress ... ) Watching Zapruder's film, I saw her reach to the back of the convertible to try and grab ... the top of his head. It's still one of the most chilling pieces of video I've seen. At any rate, Jackie O remained fascinating after JFK's assassination with her marriage to the tycoon Ari and with her work in book publishing and celebritizing. And, of course, her mothering of Caroline and John. All this leads to actress-writer Andrea Reese who was told once by someone that she looked like Jackie. That was the spark of "Cirque Jacqueline - Behind the Facade of Jackie O" (not to be confused with Cirque du Soleil or Cirque Eloise), a one-woman show up in Provincentown Art House which closes tonight, Saturday Sept. 1. The show  premiered in New York five years ago, and The New Yorker praised its "charm and substance." What Reese does is try to get under the skin and behind the image. It sounds fascinating. We know it would take us back in time - to being 4 and then to dancing to Human Sexual Response at the Boston club Spit. The new Jackie O is up at 6:30 each night. Tickets: $20.

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