Jeff Scates, a farmer in Southern Illinois, said about 75% of his family's farm was underwater last spring, and he didn't finish planting his corn crop untilearly June.
If the election were not held by early November, winter weather would make voting impossible and force a delay untilspring of 2010, according to Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, Said Jawad.
Romantic comedies and other genre films that premiere at the festival could be released as early as this spring, but most movies with Oscar ambitions probably won't make it to theaters until the fall of 2012, when the lead-up to nominations begins.