If Keeping Up with the Kardashians (Sundays at 10 pm/ET, E!) is the Brady Bunch of reality shows, Kim Kardashian is the Marcia. Sexy, self-assured and totally sweet, the Beverly Hills bombshell-slash-stylist with the famous friends and to-die-for derriere has weathered her share of scandals. Yet she's still thrilled to be letting it all hang out as the cameras capture her blended family in action for this Sunday's Season 2 premiere.

TV Guide: Unlike some of your pals, such as Paris and Nicole, you aren't really known as a party girl. Kim Kardashian: Surprisingly, I'm not the biggest partyer. For me, going out is about dressing up. I love the whole go-to-dinner, hang-out-with-my-friends part. And I'm not a big drinker, so if it's going to be one of those nights, I have to be prepared. [Laughs]

TV Guide: What's on tap for Season 2?Kardashian: You'd be sur­prised. When the cameras are running, we might plan for certain things, but totally different stuff starts happening. So this time, we [didn't] plan anything.

TV Guide: Your spread in December's Playboy was amazing. Kardashian: Thank you! They approached me a few times and it wasn't something I wanted to do. But after Hef told me that Marilyn Monroe was on the first cover... [I thought], "I'm not your typical skinny girl," so why not show off that you don't need to be stick-thin to be in [Playboy]?

TV Guide: Are you surprised by how much attention your butt gets? Kardashian: Seriously, it's insane! Have people not seen Armenian women before? And then the rumors that it's fake? Who gets butt implants?! Just [recently] in a magazine, they said that I had my nose, lips, cheeks and boobs done. Watch me take my bra off and you'll know I haven't had my boobs done! [Laughs]

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While The Essentials (Saturdays at 8 pm/ET, TCM) is all about celebrating classic cinema, the series gets a very contemporary cohost tonight when Charmed vet and cult-film favorite Rose McGowan joins Rob­ert Osborne to discuss March's top-notch titles, starting with 1969's The Apartment. She can also be seen this weekend in Quentin Tarantino's 2007 action flick, Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof (Saturday at 9 pm/ET, Starz), and from what we can tell, this lovely and well-informed Rose is capable of rising to any occasion.

TV Guide: With your edgy résumé, this isn't a gig most folks would imagine you doing.Rose McGowan: Misconceptions abound about me. I guess I'm not one of those people who demystifies everything by discussing their personal life. But there are different aspects to me and I've been really obsessed [with film] for as long as I can remember.

TV Guide: What's your favorite movie? McGowan: I can't do that. I have to go by genre. Noir films, I'd say Out of the Past. Screwball comedies, maybe It Happened One Night. You can go all over the place with that stuff.

TV Guide: You must have loved doing period pieces like The Black Dahlia and playing Ann-Margaret in the Elvis miniseries. McGowan: Yeah, in some ways, I'm more comfortable [in them], I don't know why. It's not as if I go around in my daily life — you know those people who try to look retro from head to toe? — I certainly don't do that.

TV Guide: But you do have that old-school femme-fatale vibe....McGowan: I just have good Irish pale skin, so that works. [Laughs]

TV Guide: What would you consider your own essential films? I loved Planet Terror. McGowan: I love that genre and thought it was amazingly well done. I did like [1997's] Going All the Way with Ben Affleck and Jeremy Davies.... But that's probably be­cause it was set in the '50s. [Laughs]

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Dick Vitale got a standing ovation before he even entered the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Feb. 6. Students waiting in line for that night's North Carolina-Duke game were cheering, "Dickie V! Dickie V!" as the popular and loquacious ESPN analyst arrived five hours before tip-off. Their cheering, he says, "brought me to tears."

This wasn't just the emotional candor sports fans have come to expect from college basketball's most famous voice. The 68-year-old Vitale was making his return to TV after two months in which he had under­gone and recovered from throat surgery, followed a month later by a pros­tate operation.

"I feel like I am 12 years old again," Vitale says from his home in Sarasota, Florida. "When I was laid up, I felt like I was my age, and I don't ever want to feel that way again."

For three seasons, Vitale struggled with a raspy and hoarse throat, which he did not know was caused by ulcer­ous lesions on his left vocal cord. "Bocelli I am not — never will be," he says. "But it was becoming a hindrance to me and to what I do." It was notice­able to his boss, ESPN coordinating producer Dan Steir, who politely inquired if Vitale had checked it out. "I went to a number of throat specialists, and everyone was saying it was acid reflux," Vitale says. Finally, his doctor in Florida sent him to see Dr. Steven Zeitels, the director of the Mass General Hospital Voice Rehabilitation Center.

Zeitels told him he needed surgery and that it was possible the lesions were cancerous, news that left Vitale in tears. "I was a basket case," he says. "I was so scared of the unknown, that it would be cancer, that I would not sound the way I had, that my career would be over." Luckily the lesions were benign, but after the Dec. 18 surgery, Vitale was not allowed to speak for three and a half weeks. When Zeitels finally gave him permission to start talking, he couldn't do it. "I teared up. He told me to count to 10, so that is how I began talking and haven't stopped since."

Zeitels says Vitale is "a lucky guy," but he wasn't so fortunate during his recuperation, when complications from the anesthetic brought to light unrelated prostate problems that required surgery. Vitale relied on a positive attitude he developed as a child and says that was the turning point back to health. "I lost my left eye when I was about 3 or 4," he says. "It all started with a pencil. I thought it was the end of the world. My mother told me: 'Don't feel sorry for yourself.' And I never have, since I don't even know what it is like to see with two eyes."

So Vitale is back — and better than ever. He's in great physical shape. "My doctor told me I have the body of a 40-year-old," he says with a laugh. He was recently nominated to the Bas­ketball Hall of Fame. He's even willing to go out on a limb and make a prediction that this year's Final Four will come from these seven teams: Tennessee, Memphis, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, UCLA and Georgetown. "I have a new lease on life," he says. "I am more thrilled than I have ever been to be courtside at a basketball game — every game is now so special."

That, as Vitale would say, is awe­some, baby. Totally awesome.

Vitale calls the Duke/North Carolina rematch on Saturday at 9 pm/ET, on ESPN.

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