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LITTLE ROCK — The last frontier on Earth is out-of-this-world, desolate, foreboding, and moonlike, James Cameron said after diving to the deepest part of the ocean. “My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of humanity,” the film director said Monday, shortly after returning from the strange, cold,dark place 7 miles below the western Pacific Ocean that only two men have been to. “I felt like I literally, in the space of one day, had gone to another planet and come back. It’s been a very surreal day.” Cameron, whose imagination of alien worlds yielded the blockbuster movie Avatar, said that there was one thing he promised to himself: He wanted to drink in how unusual it is. He didn’t do that when he first dove to the watery grave of the Titanic, and Apollo astronauts have said they never had time to savor where they were. “There had to be a moment where I just stopped, and took it in, and said, ‘This is where I am; I’m at the bottom of the ocean, the deepest place on Earth.What does that mean?”’ Cameron told reporters during a Monday conference call after spending three hours at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles down. “I just sat there looking out the window, looking at this barren, desolate lunar plain, appreciating,” Cameron said. He also realized how alone he was. “It’s really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place,” Cameron said. Cameron is the only person to dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench solo, using a submarine he helped design. He also is the first person to reach that depth - 35,576 feet - since it was initially explored in 1960.

Jimmy Kimmel, the star and executive producer of late night TV’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! will host the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on Sept. 23 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Kimmel’s namesake show is in its 10th season on ABC. He previously hosted the American Music Awards and the ESPY Awards and is set to host the White House Correspondents’ dinner next month.