Getting In Palin’s Hair, or Close to It

By JIM DWYER
NYT

While any girl or boy can, technically, grow up to be president, only Tina Fey can become Sarah Palin, at least on “Saturday Night Live.”

And even for her, that means a hairdresser, a team of wig makers, colorists and a pound of human hair.

“A wig takes 40 to 50 hours to make,” said Bettie Rogers, the show’s head of the hairstyling department. “We read the sketches on Wednesday night to determine the wigs to be built at Bob Kelly’s, a wig maker on 46th Street. The ladies who make the wigs work around the clock until Friday night, sometimes even late Saturday.”

Everyone knows that Governor Palin looks like Tina Fey. In fact, for many people, it’s just about all they know. And at the Republican convention, quite a few delegates seemed to think that their new vice-presidential candidate was at least as funny as Ms. Fey.

Ms. Fey answered the call, returning over the weekend to “Saturday Night Live,” where she had been a writer and a star from 1997 to 2005 before going on to further comedic glory as the writer and star of “30 Rock.”

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