The hairstyle that launched a thousand comedy sketches is getting its due. Or at least the designers of said up-sweep are. The Beehive Beauty Shop in Wasilla, owned by Palin fan/local glam squad-cheerleader Jessica Steel, is the focus of a two-part reality show, Big Hair Alaska on TLC, the same channel that brought us Sarah Palin’s Alaska. (No word yet who is producing; Palin was the executive producer for three episodes of  her own reality show, with Survivor producer Mark Burnetr responsible for the whole run.)

Ah, the possible drama if Levi Johnston comes in for a trim! And even now on their Facebook page there’s  TLC-level excitement: The shop just got in new feathers (for that ghastly trend of feather weaves) and were too busy to answer the phone so someone couldn’t make an appointment!  What if Willow wants to get a platinum blonde mohawk behind her mom’s back?  The yet-to-be filmed show already has its own FB page.

The press release describes the show as going

inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, Alaska, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create.

The Beehive’s Facebook page has several ecstatic mentions about the production, and really, good for them. With Mad Men returning to cable and upcoming network shows like Pan Am and The Playboy Club, retro-dos are all the rage, and supporting small local businesses is important in this economy.

Let’s just hope they weren’t responsible for this:

Academy Award nominated actress Julianne Moore told MTV News that

It was hard, really, really hard

playing former Alaska governor/2008 GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the upcoming  Game Change, directed by Jay Roach and based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann‘s 2010 bestseller of the same name.

I had a great director, Jay Roach who was incredible. I adored him, [he was] so supportive, so smart. I did a lot of research, I worked really hard. It’s hard to play someone who is very present in people’s minds, who’s on television, very idiosyncratic,  I did my best. We’ll see, I hope we pulled it off.

The HBO movie stars Ed Harris as John McCain, and Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt, Larry Sullivan as Palin’s deputy chief of staff Chris Edwards, Jamey Sheridan as McCain’s speechwriter and senior campaign advisor Mark Salter.

We’ll get to see behind the scenes with Palin family, too: Melissa Farman plays Bristol Palin, David Barry Gray appears as Todd Palin, and Justin Gaston as Levi Johnston. The film follows the 2008 McCain campaign from the candidate’s selection of Sarah Palin as running mate to their defeat on election night.

Moore worked to get her character’s accent down:

I had to listen to it over and over again. My son was embarrassed because [Palin's speeches were] all that was on my iPod. He said, ‘Where’s your music?’ [I told him] I erased all my music.

The film, shot in Maryland, was reported to be responsible for employing 160 local crew and 1,800 residents as extras. But that kind of job creation wasn’t on Palin’s mind when she spoke to Sean Hannity about Game Change. She wondered why she wasn’t get some money for her kids’ braces. Um, Sarah, haven’t you made millions off your books and TV appearances? Maybe Bristol could help you out with her windfall if you’ve spent all yours!

Levi Johnston told CBS’s Early Show that the only thing he regrets is apologizing to Sarah Palin because his “sorry” seem like his original reports of life chez Palin were lies.

I don’t really regret anything. But the only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done is to put out that apology. ‘Cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I’ve never lied about anything. So that’s probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with.

The rest of the stuff includes posing for Playgirl and placing a diamond engagement ring on Bristol Palin’s bed surrounded by a rose petal heart to renew their pre-wedded state. Only that kinda fell apart. But those zany kids have another plan: Instead of marriage, they’re each going to do a reality show.

Just to sweeten the pot and twist the plot a bit more, Levi is running for mayor of Wasilla, the job his nearly once-and-former mother-in-law Sarah held in her upwardly mobile trajectory to the New York Times Best Seller List, while Bristol will appear on Dancing with the Stars.

Levi Johnson is reportedly spending some nights in the Anchorage apartment of his ex, Bristol Palin and their son Tripp.

Bristol, one the world’s most famous unwed mothers and a spokesperson for abstinence, is living on her own, away from her mother Sarah Palin which might explain why Levi is coming around more often.

Levi was orderde to pay $18,500 is back child support. Maybe they should just get married…

TMZ reports that Bristol Palin has filed for $1,750 a month in child support from Levi Johnston, retroactive to the birth of their son Tripp on December 27, 2008.

Miss Bris claims that Levi has earned

in excess of $105,000 in 2009 through various media interviews and modeling related activities

and has only paid her $4,300. Meanwhile, Levi’s lawyer says the sometimes model/spokesperson has paid $10,00 in child support, and besides he hasn’t been paid for every interview he’s given, so the $105,000 is ridiculous.

But um, maybe someone wants to check around and see if family members have been paid by tabloids for selling stories about the Palins…just saying.

Monday, Levi Johnston appears on Tyra Banks to discuss love, sex and the Palins. Here’s a sneak peek at the hockey playing hunk, who says that he was pretty sure Sarah Palin, aka Gov. GILF–an abstinence supporter– knew that he and Bristol were making the beast with two backs. According to Levi, they practiced safe sex every time.

"Practiced" seems to be the operative word, since they didn’t quite get it right….

Then Bristol Palin’s ex-boyfriend hedges a bit and says

Well most of the time.

Tyra asks if there was a "wardrobe malfunction."  But yes, it sounds more like an inability to follow basic directions on the condom wrapper–you’re supposed to put it on in the beginning and leave it on. There can be advance spillage, ya know!

And "most of the time" could Tripp you up…