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Trump, meanwhile, basically has to shoot the moon to get there.

Trump had to shoot the moon and sweep all of these states.

That was kind of how I got the idea how to shoot the moon.

Maybe. The Clinton campaign, led by campaign manager Robby Mook, wants to shoot the moon.

Going forward, Democrats might as well shoot the moon with aggressive Sanders-style social democracy.

And from the beginning, we knew that the Zeckendorf brothers were going to shoot the moon.

The Clinton campaign, seeking to shoot the moon, wanted to make a big showing among white, college-educated Republicans.

"Our intent was not to shoot the moon here and gobble up exclusions," said Mike Ward, the company's president.

From Whitewater to Benghazi to Fast and Furious, Republicans tried to shoot the moon with every scandal or pseudo-scandal.

And, over time, federal agencies may hand off more mundane, more crucial, less shoot-the-Moon research to private backers, too.

We've only been in Afghanistan for 16 years and Iraq for 14 years, so why not shoot the moon, I guess.

Stranger things have happened, but to me that sounds like a bit like trying to shoot the moon with a potato cannon.

If you look at the electoral map, he is screwed: To get to the Oval Office, he has to shoot the moon and win Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

He earned more Best Actor Oscar nominations for his roles in the searing marital drama "Shoot the Moon" in 1982, co-starring with Diane Keaton, and "The Dresser" in 1983.

This means that Mitch McConnell (who, to be fair, is very good at this kind of thing) and Paul Ryan would have to shoot the moon, while also rushing a bill through.

Mr. Grant, the youngest-ever tenured full professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, dives into what it takes to be a shoot-the-moon, Steve-Jobs-like success.

Call it the shoot-the-moon philosophy of corporate growth, taken from the high-risk, high-reward strategy in the card game Hearts—you either thoroughly dominate the opposition or you crash in flames.

Those developments are helping shoot-the-moon visions on the left — like "Medicare for all" or a "Green New Deal" to halt climate change with massive public investment — find firmer footing on political ground.

Macro has made waves with some early projects, like Denzel Washington's Oscar-nominated film adaptation of August Wilson's "Fences," but it's still a new venture, and it has a start-up's shoot-the-moon sense of urgency and excitement.

Trump's broad unpopularity and historic Democratic turnout have fed speculation that the party could effectively shoot the moon—holding all of the seats that it currently has and flipping a couple of Republican seats to gain control of the Senate.

For the Democrats to retake the Senate, given their "almost impossible" 2018 map, they would nearly have to shoot the moon on Tuesday, preserving all of their own seats and winning several tough races in Indiana, West Virginia, Missouri, Florida, Texas, and Tennessee.

You know, both WeWork and SoftBank Vision Fund are shoot-the-moon operations, so — So after a 12-minute tour of the WeWork offices and Adam Newman's vision — — basically both willing to make humongous bets, and they're sort of enabling one another.

While some conservatives are grousing that Trump did not shoot the moon with the pick and choose a more boldly conservative choice, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understood the value of a well-vetted, well-liked nominee for what is going to be a sprint of a confirmation process.

They simply had to shoot the moon by beating the Carolina Panthers, having the Redskins tie the Giants, the Packers lose to the Lions, and should all of that happen they simply required wins by Indianapolis, Dallas, Tennessee and San Francisco to top the Packers in strength of schedule.

On September 23, 2020, BDC released their first EP The Intersection: Belief, with "Shoot the Moon" serving as the lead single.

Keaton received her second Academy Award nomination for her performance. The following year, Keaton starred in the domestic drama Shoot the Moon opposite Albert Finney.

Played like Oklahoma Ten-Point with some variations. The minimum opening bid is 5. 10 point bid is "Shoot the Moon." After the bids, the winning bidder declares suit.

Shoot the Moon was released on DVD on November 6, 2007, by Warner Home Video. Special features include an audio commentary by Parker and Goldman, and the film's theatrical trailer.

Later versions of "Teddy Ruxpin" were brought out by Playskool and Yes! Entertainment (Yes! was also formed by Don Kingsborough) Backpack Toys and most currently Wicked Cool Toys. The "Lazer tag" brand was continued by Shoot The Moon Products, a toy invention company formed by two other Worlds of Wonder foundersLazer Tag fan page with a history of Shoot The Moon and new Lazer Tag equipment has been produced under license by Tiger Electronics and Hasbro.

Shoot the Moon is the fourth EP by the American punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder. It was released on March 30, 1999 through Adeline Records. It was re-released on CD and vinyl through Recess Records on February 12, 2010.

The Misdeal rule is in effect, as is Shoot the Moon, which is differentiated from and superior to a perfect bid (11) in that Shoot the Moon automatically wins or loses the game. Only the 17 Trump cards are legal for play. A five-player variation exists: here, each player has an individual, not partnership, score; partnerships change each round and are determined by the winning bidder calling for one specific Trump card to be led. The player who plays this Trump joins the winning bidder's partnership for that one round, and the other three players join the opposing partnership.

After post-production had concluded in October 1981, Parker had planned to release Shoot the Moon before the end of the year for awards consideration, but a clause in Keaton's contract stipulated that the film could not be released until a year later to avoid competition with her previous film Reds. MGM gave Shoot the Moon a platform release, first releasing it in New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles on January 22, 1982. The film was released in the US on February 19, 1982. It was a box-office failure, grossing $9,217,530 against a production budget of $12 million.

Shoot the Moon received international acclaim and was embraced by America's most respected film critics: Pauline Kael – The New Yorker: David Denby – New York Magazine: David Edelstein – The New York Post: However, due to the poor domestic release in the years before video, the film was all but forgotten until Warner Bros. acquired MGM's home video library and released the DVD in the summer of 2007. To this day Shoot the Moon has a perfect 100% score on the critic site Rotten Tomatoes. Los Angeles -- The Screen Writers Guild strike brings motion picture and television production very nearly to a halt.

Goldman's calling card, Shoot the Moon, was then filmed by Alan Parker and starred Diane Keaton and Albert Finney. The film received international acclaim and was embraced by some of America's most respected film critics: However, due to a previous agreement Warren Beatty had negotiated with MGM the studio was bound that no film could be released with Diane Keaton in the same year as Beatty's Reds. Consequently, Shoot the Moon was effectively dumped – and subsequently released with little or no fanfare the following February – long after the fourth quarter "awards season." Nonetheless, Goldman's peers remembered and the following year he earned his third Writers Guild Award nomination.

Played like Oklahoma Ten-Point with a few variations. Each player is initially dealt nine cards. Minimum bid is 5, and the Shoot the Moon rule is in effect. Players discard all non-trumps and the dealer distributes remaining undealt cards so all players have six.

When creating voids, it is best to do that in either clubs or diamonds, because players want to avoid receiving high hearts or spades without having any padding. For this reason spades lower than the Queen are typically not passed unless the player is attempting to shoot the moon.

After working together at NET Burt Lancaster encouraged Goldman to try his hand at screenwriting, which resulted in an early version of Shoot the Moon. The script became Goldman's calling card, and he would soon be "known for some of the best screenplays of the 1970s and 80s".

Each player is dealt nine cards. The player to the left of the dealer is the first to bid, and continues in a clockwise pattern. Each player has the option to either pass or outbid the previous bid. The minimum bid is 5, and the Shoot the Moon rule is in effect.

" Less well received was his performance as Daddy Warbucks in the Hollywood film version of Annie (1982), which was directed by John Huston. Finney said going into this film after Shoot the Moon was "marvelous. I use a completely different side of myself as Warbucks. 'Annie' is show biz; it's open, simple and direct.

Shoot the Moon is the title of the fourth album by singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in April 1982. It was Tzuke's first album for Chrysalis Records after leaving Elton John's label, The Rocket Record Company, who had released her first three albums. The album peaked at no.19 on the UK Album Chart.

A player shooting the moon must do this alone. When any player reaches 100 or more, the partners combine their scores and the team with the lower score wins. The third is really a variant of Omnibus Hearts with a slam bid. After the deal, players bid to shoot the moon by taking all tricks.

Players wishing to bid must bid a minimum of two. In addition to bidding two, three, or four; players may also "Shoot the Moon", requiring them to win every trick and all four points. Shooting the Moon is valued at 15 points, failure to win every trick and all four points results in a setback. Negative scoring is allowed.

Bids are from 6 to 17, the Shoot the Moon variant is used. After bids are made, each player discards all non-trumps (or to a six-card hand). The dealer restores each hand to six cards, skipping the making player. Finally, the making player may search the deck, choosing cards to bring their hand to six.

This variant, also called New Yorker Pitch, points available are: High, Low, Jack, and Game. Bids 2-4 are allowed, and the Forced bid and Shoot the Moon rules are used. After bidding, the trump is declared; next players may discard any non-trumps they choose. The dealer distributes cards so that each player has six.

Yothers began her acting career in television advertisements at age three. Her first cinema role was in the 1981 television film The Cherokee Trail. She also appeared in the 1982 feature film Shoot the Moon. Her most famous role was as Jennifer Keaton, the younger daughter in the television comedy Family Ties from 1982 to 1989.

The highest bid is a slam called Shoot the Moon and the bidder wins the entire game if successful and he started with a positive score. If he is in the hole when he bids it, his score returns to zero if successful. The penalty for failing, however, is -15 points. A player who scores -25 or lower is out of the game.

In the event the bid is passed to the dealer, the dealer must assume the minimum bid (or "Shoot the Moon"). The player with the highest bid pitches the first card, thus denoting trump. Players must follow suit regardless of trump, resulting in the primary variation from auction pitch. A player may not trump in unless they are unable to follow suit.

Each player must make a higher bid than the previous player, or pass. A bid of four (the highest possible) is known as shoot the moon, slam or smudge.However, in some variations the terms refer to a separate bid that is higher than just winning all scoring points. If no player bids, the deal is abandoned and the same dealer deals again.

His early career choice had been either to be a singer or a preacher, and he decided on music. By the 1930s, Mullican had acquired his nickname "Moon". Published sources suggest it is short for "moonshine" or possibly from his all-night performances; his family says it was because he loved to play "Shoot the Moon", a variation of the dominoes game "42".

A team cannot bid to Shoot The Moon if the other team bids Double Nil, and vice versa. ;Boston On Fire: Also known as Blind Moon or a Grand Slam. This is a blind bid to take all tricks in a hand, made before either partner has looked at their cards. Again, the first team to bid either Double Blind Nil or Blind Moon has precedence.

Landsberg co-starred and co-wrote the 1986 action-comedy Detective School Dropouts with Lorin Dreyfuss. In 1987 they teamed up again for Dutch Treat. Both films flopped at the box office. He acted in the films Shoot the Moon with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, Loose Shoes with Bill Murray, Love at First Bite with George Hamilton and Arte Johnson, and Skatetown, U.S.A. with Patrick Swayze and Dorothy Stratten.

It was also nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or. Marshall continued to make his mark as a film producer with critical films including Fame, Shoot the Moon, and Pink Floyd – The Wall. After the 1987 film Angel Heart, Marshall decided to leave working with Parker to focus on other feature films. Marshall has been the producer for other features such as Homeboy, Jacob's Ladder, Basic Instinct and Hollow Man.

On August 17 and 18, 2007, The Predators returned with a performance at the "Rising Sun Rock Festival". On October 15, 2008, the band released its second mini-album, Kiba wo Misero, which debuted at number 4 on the Oricon chart. The band played the tour "Shoot the Moon" during October and November. In 2010, the band announced the departure of Shinpei and the entry of Hirotaka Takahashi (Ellegarden).

At Columbia he did Tight Spot (1955) and 5 Against the House (1955) for Phil Karlson. Bowers wrote "Prosper's Old Mother" (1955) and "It's Sunny Again" (1956) for General Electric Theatre and "Shoot the Moon" (1956) for Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre. At Fox he did a musical The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956). Universal hired him for the remake of My Man Godfrey in 1957.

He charted nine solo singles between 1980 and 1986, but none reached Top 40, although he was nominated as the Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist for his 1983 single "Say You'll Stay". His final singles "Shoot the Moon" and "Heaven in a Haystack" were released on Mercury Records in 1989, as was his solo album, Wayne Massey and Blackhawk. Massey left the recording industry in the 1990s.

Dana Lynne Goetz was born on May 6, 1964 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, to Sandy Hill and Theodore Arthur "Ted" Goetz, a director of commercials. A diagnosis of Type I diabetes at an early age ended her athletic career; a 1982 article in People magazineBacon, Doris Klein (March 8, 1982). "Diabetes Has Slowed Her Growth but Not Her Talent — Dana Hill Is Big Enough to Shoot the Moon". People. Retrieved August 10, 2020.

Shoot the Moon is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan Parker, and written by Bo Goldman. It stars Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller and Dana Hill. Set in Marin County, California, the film follows George (Finney) and Faith Dunlap (Keaton), whose deteriorating marriage, separation and love affairs devastate their four children. The title of the film alludes to the move of "shooting the moon" in the card game Hearts.

Principal photography lasted 62 days, in the period from January to April 1981, on location in Marin County. Shoot the Moon premiered on February 19, 1982 to mostly positive reviews, but was deemed a box-office failure, having grossed only $9.2 million in North America. It later competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, and received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Drama (Finney) and Best Actress – Drama (Keaton).

After Zero Tolerance disbanded in early 1991, Keith formed Face to Face with bassist Matt Riddle and drummer Rob Kurth. Cited as a seminal California punk group, Face to Face has released nine full-length albums in their nearly 25-year history. In 2004 Face to Face disbanded to allow the band members the opportunity to focus on other projects. During this time, the band released a CD/DVD compilation, Shoot the Moon, on Keith's label, Antagonist Records.

After reading Shoot the Moon, Miloš Forman asked Goldman to write the screenplay for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The film won all five top Academy Awards including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Goldman. This was the first film to win the top five awards since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1934. For his work on the film Goldman also received the Writers Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award.

Jones's album, Come Away With Me, includes five of Harris' compositions: "Don't Know Why," "Shoot the Moon," "One Flight Down," "I've Got To See You Again," and "The Long Day is Over." Harris plays guitar throughout the whole album. Jones and Harris have collaborated numerous times since then. Jones has been a guest on many of his albums and he appears as guitarist on almost all of her albums. Harris contributed songwriting to Jones' 2008 release The Fall.

She attempts to make conversation, but the mysterious man merely takes the bread and flees. Weeks go by, and essays begin to pour into the grill from far and wide ("Shoot the Moon"). ;Act II Hannah, Percy, and Shelby sit in the Spitfire Grill after hours, reading essays and drinking from a jug of Hannah's infamous applejack. As they read the letters, some funny, some sad, Hannah expresses her appreciation for what Percy and Shelby have done ("Come Alive Again").

With the exception of trying to shoot the moon, players attempt to discard high cards, especially high hearts or spades, and try to avoid winning points. This can either be accomplished by creating a void, or playing a high card last in a trick that has no points. Generally speaking, it is advantageous to play the highest card possible without winning the trick. Players particularly concentrate on getting rid of high cards in suits that they do not have padding low cards in.

Also, Pinhead Gunpowder mentioned that in August or September Recess would re-release on vinyl and CD the albums Jump Salty, Carry the Banner, Goodbye Ellston Avenue, Shoot the Moon and Compulsive Disclosure. All of the albums were re-released in assorted colors in early February 2010 through Recess Records, but quickly recalled and destroyed at the request of the band. The band last performed at a benefit show at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California on February 12, 2010.

She played one of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton's four daughters in the feature film Shoot the Moon (1982). Gold also guest starred on her sister Missy's series Benson in 1985, playing the cousin of Missy's character, Katie Gatling. In 1985, Gold auditioned for the role of Carol Seaver on Growing Pains, but was not initially cast. The actress chosen for the pilot was Elizabeth Ward, who had starred alongside Gold in The Hand- Me-Down Kid, a 1983 ABC Afterschool Special.

Dana Hill (born Dana Lynne Goetz; May 6, 1964 – July 15, 1996) was an American actress and voice artist. As a live-action actress, she was known for playing Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's European Vacation, and also known for her roles in Shoot the Moon and Cross Creek. As a voice actress, she was known for her work as Max Goof in Goof Troop. Hill had diabetes which affected physical growth which meant that she often played children into adolescence and beyond.

Her breakthrough role was in the 1981 made-for-TV movie Fallen Angel. The 17-year-old Hill played 12-year-old molestation victim Jennifer Phillips, a role which earned her a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Television Special.Young Artist Award website In 1982, Hill played Sherry Dunlap in Shoot the Moon. The same year, she played Frankie Addams, the lead character in the made-for-TV adaptation of The Member of the Wedding, co-starring with Pearl Bailey.

Davis's first film role was in the 1982 drama film Shoot the Moon, playing the daughter of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton. As a teen, her best-known film role was in the 1987 comedy Morgan Stewart's Coming Home which she starred with Jon Cryer. At sixteen, she starred in dual roles in Disney's 1987 TV film Student Exchange. In 1995, she starred as country singing legend Wynonna Judd in NBC TV miniseries Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge.

21 points. Winning all four points is much easier in the four-player partnership version than in other versions. Therefore, one common variation is that shooting the moon is a separate bid worth 5 points and involves winning all six tricks in addition to winning all four points. The fifth point for winning all six tricks is only awarded if the pitching team undertook to shoot the moon.. Another variation common in partnership Pitch is that only the pitching party can win the game.

Each player is dealt six cards. Bids are usually from 1-9, and the Shoot the Moon rule is in effect. After bidding, players discard non-trumps and the dealer distributes cards so that each hand has six cards. Points available are High 'Ace' (one point), Low 'Two' (one point), Jack (one point), Off-Jack or Jick 'Jack of same color different suit' (one point), Big Joker (one point), Little Joker (one point), Three (three points), Game '10' (one point), and sometimes Off-Three (three points).

Take Cover is an extended play by American hard rock band Mr. Big. It was released in 1996 via East West/Atlantic. The album contains two tracks ("Take Cover" and "Goin' Where the Wind Blows") from the band's fourth album Hey Man, a non-LP track "Shoot the Moon", a live version of their track "Just Take My Heart" from their 1991 album Lean into It, and a live version of their track "The Whole World's Gonna Know" from their 1993 album Bump Ahead.

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a 1982 American sex comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen. The plot is loosely based on the 1955 Swedish comedy film Smiles of a Summer Night, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was the first of 13 films that Allen would make starring Mia Farrow. Her role was originally written for Diane Keaton, another Allen lead actress, but she was busy promoting her film Reds and preparing to begin production on Shoot the Moon.

Shoot The Moon Products of Pleasanton, CA acquired the Lazer Tag brand name after Worlds Of Wonder ceased operations in late 1990. The brand name was licensed to Tiger Electronics from 1996–1998, and to Hasbro following their acquisition of Tiger. Tiger released a variety of Lazer Tag-branded products in the mid-1990s as well as a series of Star Wars-themed blasters, culminating in a toy collection themed for the release of Star Wars Episode 1. Following poor sales, Tiger discontinued the line.

Attempting to shoot the moon is often a risky strategy, as failure to capture every single penalty card will result in the remaining penalty points (as many as 25, if only one heart is missed) being added to one's score. Shooting the moon can rapidly change the direction of a game in a player's favour. A good hand for shooting the moon should contain significant high cards, in addition to a long run of a single suit that can be used to keep the lead once the other players have run out of that suit.

Eventually, the script was picked up by 20th Century Fox after the commercial success of Star Wars (1977). Alan Ladd, Jr., president of Fox, sent the script to Alan Parker, as the director was beginning pre- production on Fame (1980). After filming Fame, Parker met with Goldman, and the two worked together to rewrite the script. Among the changes, they moved the story from New York City to Marin County, California, and retitled the script Shoot the Moon, a metaphoric title that references the move of "shooting the moon" in the card game Hearts.

Director Alan Parker, pictured in 2008 Shoot the Moon was Bo Goldman's first attempt at writing a screenplay and was originally developed under the title Switching. He began writing the script in 1971, influenced by his encounters with dysfunctional couples and how their disputes affected their children. "When I started to write this screenplay years ago," he said, "I looked around me and all the marriages were collapsing, and the real victims of these marital wars were the children." For several years, Goldman tried to sell his script, without success.

Following a ground-up redesign, Shoot the Moon licensed their next generation product to Tiger Electronics. Released at Toy Fair 2004, Lazer Tag Team Ops (LTTO) featured a double-barreled design allowing a tagger to identify targets and confirm hits at a distance, and the ability to self-host timed games of up to three teams with various rules and scenarios, with debriefing and score review following the game. All Lazer Tag-branded products since 2004 are backward compatible and can join LTTO-hosted games, each with various capabilities and limitations.

Zea was hired by Woody Allen as the design coordinator for his 1978 film Interiors. She designed costumes for three Alan Parker films, Fame (1980), Shoot the Moon (1982), and Birdy (1984), and also worked as art director for Parker's Angel Heart (1987).She first worked with Martin Scorsese as production designer for his segment of New York Stories She worked for James L. Brooks as costume designer on Terms of Endearment (1983), associate producer on Broadcast News (1987), and producer on As Good As It Gets (1997). She also designed "outrageous" costumes for the 1986 stage production of The Balcony, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, at the American Repertory Theater.

Lyrics by Trever Keith. Music by Trever Keith, Scott Shiflett and Pete Parada #"Bill of Goods" – 2:46 #"The Take-Away" – 2:47 #"14 Hours" – 2:20 #"A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" – 3:06 #"The New Way" – 3:35 #"The World in Front of You" – 2:44 #"Why Would I Lie?" – 2:46 #"Unconditional" – 3:13 #"Shoot the Moon" – 3:20 #"Graded on a Curve" – 3:43 #"Fight or Flight" – 3:06 #"Waiting to Be Saved" – 3:18 #"Double Standard" – 2:42 #"The Compromise" – 3:31 #"How to Ruin Everything" – 3:04 #"Nothing Succeeds Like Success" – 2:34 † #"Anybody Listening?" – 2:26 † † = Japanese bonus track.

Grass It Up released its second album, Shoot the Moon in April 2008; that year Danny Karpel began playing piano on stage with the band. They performed at the newly founded MeadowGrass music festival in 2009 and annually thereafter, as well as at The Black Rose Acoustic Society and at the Grapes & Grass Festival in Guerneville, California in 2009 and 2011. The band was included in the 2009 "best of" survey of the Colorado Springs Gazette. The band's 2010 album, Day After Yesterday, incorporated Karpel on piano and Ben Lewis playing fiddle; they appeared at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center events in 2010 and 2011.

The film follows George (Finney) and Faith Dunlap (Keaton), whose deteriorating marriage, separation and love affairs devastate their four children. Shoot the Moon received mostly positive reviews from critics and Keaton's performance was again praised. In The New Yorker Pauline Kael wrote that the film was "perhaps the most revealing American movie of the era", saying of Keaton: > Diane Keaton may be a star without vanity: she's so completely challenged by > the role of Faith that all she cares about is getting the character right. > Very few young American movie actresses have the strength and the instinct > for the toughest dramatic roles — intelligent, sophisticated heroines.

The main objectives of passing are to try to become "short" or "void" in a suit, and thus able to play off-suit when that suit is led; or to rid one's hand of "dangerous" cards that could force a player to take a trick containing penalty points, such as the Ace, King, or Queen of any suit (especially spades and hearts). and are two of the most important cards to get rid of, because they can draw in . In addition, high hearts can leave the player defenseless once hearts are broken. Care must be taken in passing too many high cards which could allow the player receiving the cards to shoot the moon.

"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is a song written by John Prine. It was released as a track on Prine's 1986 album German Afternoons. The song gained further fame with a duet recording by Prine and American singer Nanci Griffith in the latter's 1993 album Other Voices, Other Rooms and the release of the track as a single. The song has been covered by many, notably Kim Carnes, who released it as a single from her 1988 album View from the House and by the English band Alabama 3 on their 1997 album Exile on Coldharbour Lane, as well as American singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in 2009 on his Prine tribute album Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes.

As the band members — singer Trever Keith, guitarist Chad Yaro, bassist Matt Riddle, drummer Rob Kurth — fish hot dogs out of the smoker to serve to the assembled horde, they look less like California's latest pop-punk heroes than miserable minimum-wage hirelings consigned for eternity to the Der Wienerschnitzel franchise in Hell. He then joined No Use for a Name in 1996 after the band's fourth full-length, Leche Con Carne (1995), and made his recording debut on the band's Making Friends record in 1997. He also played briefly for the punk bands Pulley and 22 Jacks. Riddle and Keith have reportedly reconciled their differences, and Riddle provided liner notes for a Face to Face collection entitled Shoot the Moon in 2005.

Jamiroquai – Live at Montreux 2003 is a DVD/blu-ray of a concert performed by the British band Jamiroquai at the 2003 Montreux Jazz Festival. The DVD was released on 1 October 2007 through Eagle Vision, a distributor also related to other DVD releases of Montreux Jazz Fest. performances. While the concert has been documented (bootlegged) in whole by fans, and has received a rather large amount of notability among the same fandom, it is the first time for this concert to see a professionally made, official DVD release. While the DVD features all of the tracks from the festival (including the among-fans notorious "Shoot the Moon"), it also features a '12-minute' live version of Space Cowboy, recorded at the same jazz festival, albeit in 1995.

The relative success of "Disconnected" helped Face to Face to gain more exposure and popularity, and the song became a standard for the band for the rest of their career. Allmusic reviewer Vincent Jeffries recalls that the song was an "alt-rock radio mega-hit", while Tracy Fey comments that the Over It version is "a rawer, less polished version than the one that appears on Big Choice, but the power and catchiness are still there", remarking that "Disconnected" and "I Used to Think" "stand out as the backbone of the EP" and that the Big Choice version is "a bit heavier". After Face to Face's breakup in 2004, Keith released a compilation album entitled Shoot the Moon: The Essential Collection through his Antagonist Records label. It includes the original version of "Disconnected" from Don't Turn Away as the album's opening track, and a live version of the song recorded at the band's farewell performance on September 19, 2004 at the House of Blues in Hollywood, California as the closing track.

Amy Holden Jones had just made her feature film debut as director with Slumber Party Massacre and wanted to follow it up with something non-horror. She and her husband had written love letters to each other several years previously when living on different coasts; she rediscovered them and wondered what would happen if their daughter came across the love letters. At the same time Jones saw Shoot the Moon about a man who has an affair and thought that while the story of an affair told from the point of view of the unfaithful married man had been done many times, she had never seen the story from the point of view of the girlfriend to the married man. Jones: > I put that together with the love letters and thought it would be > interesting if someone came upon the love letters and realized that their > parents had had an extramarital affair, if the love letters were not in fact > between her mother and father, as ours were, but between the mother and a > lover.

Splatter Up is a T-ball toy released in 1988, designed by WET Design,Grinding Gear, Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated, 4 February 2002 (retrieved 11 February 2012) under the Worlds of Wonder brand.THE WIZARDS OF WET : Even the Staid Take Delight in High-Tech Magic of Burbank Fountain Company, Susan Heeger, Los Angeles Times, 29 September 1988 (retrieved 11 February 2012) The toy was later manufactured (marketed) by Buddy-LSplatter Up Baseball from Buddy L, Shoot the Moon (retrieved 10 February 2012) and Wham-O. The toy has been described as a "wet version of baseball"Basics Back At Top Of The Hoop Summer's Here And The Time Is Right For Racing To The Toy Store, Barbara Deck, Philadelphia Daily News, 14 June 1988 (retrieved 11 February 2012)Consumer group attacks unsafe toys, Randolf E. Schmid (Associated Press), The Gainesville Sun Extra, 21 June 1989, p.2 (retrieved 11 February 2012 at Google News)It's back to basics in toys - no mega-hits expected this year - discount store toy sales, Richard Halverson, Discount Store News, 14 March 1988 (retrieved 11 February 2012 from FindArticles) using a garden hose attached to a foot pedal to control the water pressure that funnels the water into a stream to push a wiffle ball up into the air so it can be hit with a plastic bat.