In 1919, Collins, the IRA's Director of Intelligence, organised the " Squad "— an assassination unit based in Dublin which killed police involved in intelligence work ; the Irish playwright Brendan Behan's father Stephen Behan was a member of this squad.

Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan, Gene Roddenberry ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ) ( refit ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) ( refit )

The role of Decker remained uncast until after the film project officially began, at which time Stephen Collins was cast.

Post-industrial noise artists from the late 20th and early 21st centuries include Vladislav Delay, Nicolas Collins, William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, Psyclones, The Haters, Boyd Rice, Minóy, Pole, Stephen Vitiello, If, Bwana, PBK, Howard Stelzer, Chris Douglas a. k. a. O. S. T., Aube, Andrew Deutsch, Leif Elggren, Robin Rimbaud, Alva Noto, Oval, Boards of Canada, DJ Spooky, Florian Hecker, Farmers Manual, Negativland, Joseph Nechvatal, Thanasis Kaproulias, Fennesz, Pan Sonic, Yasunao Tone, Pavel Zhagun, Arcane Device, Francisco López, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, Bryan Lewis Saunders, and others.

The vision and enthusiasm of a few initiators must be mentioned: painters Francis Cunningham and Allen Barber, director Torben Bjelke, Dave Brubeck and sons ( who gave us two benefit concerts ), Kevin Kennedy ( who owned the camp ), and, of course Bond Streeters all: Mary Dino, David Feder, Stephen Ringold, Luanne Dietrich, Fred Collins, Marlene Abraham, Michael McGuigan, and Directors Joanna Sherman and Patrick Sciarratta.

Ball House, Stephen Ball House, Calvin A. Buffington House, First Congregational Church, Lebbeus Ford House, Nathaniel Bishop Collins House, and Berkshire Village Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

* " Massa's In De Cold Ground " ( w. m. Stephen Collins Foster )-Edison Male Quartette on Edison

These singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Grace Slick, Dave Mason, Jim Croce, Fred Neil, Roger McGuinn, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Donovan, Stephen Stills, Randy Newman, Steve Goodman, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Jesse Winchester, Johnny Tillotson, Sylvia Tyson, Ian Tyson, Nick Drake, Tim Hardin, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Eric Andersen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Armatrading, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Nick Gravenites, Rick Nelson, Richard Fariña, Tuli Kupferberg Mark Spoelstra, Don Mclean, Patrick Sky, Jimmy Buffett, Mickey Newbury, Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Van Ronk, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Frank Zappa.

* " My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night " ( w. m. Stephen Collins Foster )-Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone-Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records

* " Old Folks At Home " ( w. m. Stephen Collins Foster )-Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone

Stephen Collins Foster ( July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864 ), known as the " father of American music ," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.

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** Stephen Sondheim ( songwriter ) for " Send In the Clowns " performed by Judy Collins

Also starring Stephen Collins and Gabriel Macht, the project opened to overwhelmingly negative reviews by critics, with Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe calling it " a sloppily made bowl of reheated chick-flick cliches ," and was ranked among the worst-reviewed films of the year.

* Beautiful Dreamer: A musical melodrama based on the life and songs of Stephen Collins Foster by Roy Hudd ( Unknown Binding-1981 )

All is an American punk rock band originally from Los Angeles, currently based in Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson, Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton.

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* " Maggie by My Side " Stephen Collins Foster

* " Old Dog Tray " Stephen Collins Foster

* " Open Thy Lattice, Love " w. George Pope Morris, m. Stephen Collins Foster

Dudley's career in film music has spanned 20 years and her film scores include: American History X ( 1998 ) an American drama directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton ; A Man Apart ( 2003 ) starring Vin Diesel ; Black Book ( 2006 ) a World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven ; Bright Young Things ( 2003 ) British drama written and directed by Stephen Fry based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ; Buster ( 1988 ) a British comedy drama starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock ; The Crying Game ( 1992 ) an Irish / British drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan ; The Full Monty ( 1997 ) a Peter Cattaneo directed comedy about six unemployed steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act.

Her recent awards include finalist placements for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Award, The Broome Review ( USA ); the Malahat Review Long Poem Competition ; and Descant ’ s Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem.

Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts ( from 1997 – 2000 ) and Sal Bando ( 1982 ), Tony Kubek ( from 1983 – 1989 ), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker ( from 1994 – 2000 ) for baseball telecasts.

In 2000, Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health and U. S. Public Genome Project jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full three years ahead of the expected end of the Public Genome Program.

* Singer, P. ( 2000 ), Writings on an ethical life, Harper Collins Publishers, London.

) The Gamma World Campaign Setting ( ISBN 0-7869-1629-X ) was a 192-page softcover book written by Andy Collins and Jeff Grubb, published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast ( WOTC ), only a month after WOTC announced its cancellation of the Alternity line.

Writing the Romantic Comedy ( Harper Collins, 2000 ), ordered by year of release.

* Ovason, David, The Secret Architecture of our Nation ’ s Capital: the Masons and the building of Washington, D. C., New York City, New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

In the 2000 Channel 4 programme The 100 Greatest TV Ads, Terry Lovelock, the director of several of these commercials, revealed that he found Rossiter difficult to work with, and that he used to jokingly refer to Collins as " The Prop ".

In 2000, Collins joined the cast of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a prequel to the 1994 Universal Studios live action film The Flintstones.

* Keay J ( 2000 ), The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named, Harper Collins, 182pp, ISBN 0-00-653123-7.

Swedish writer / illustrator Bea Uusma Schyffert has written the children's book Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins ( Chronicle Books, 2003 ) ( original title: Astronauten som inte fick landa, Alfabeta, 2000 ).

* In May 2000, in the American sitcom Will & Grace episode " My Best Friend's Tush ," the characters Grace Adler ( Debra Messing ) and Karen Walker ( Megan Mullally ) visit a taco restaurant to find Helena Barnes ( Joan Collins ).

This song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 2000, and McLachlan performed it at the awards ceremony, but the award went to " You'll Be in My Heart " from Tarzan, written and recorded by Phil Collins.

N. Buttimer et al., The Collins Press, Cork, 2000, pp. 146 – 155.

Notably, they are one of the favourite bands of Phil Collins, who performed with the reunited band in 2000.

Bill Power, ' White Knights, Dark Earls ,' the rise and fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty ,' The Collins Press, 2000.

** “ And The Wind Cried ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Mike Collins and Peter Ventner, in 2000 AD # 637 ( 1989 )

Collins English Dictionary, 2000.

Directors have included Philip S. Hopkins, 1958-1964, S. Paul Johnston, 1964-1969, Frank A. Taylor ( acting ), 1969-1971, Michael Collins, 1971 – 1978, Melvin B. Zisfein ( acting ), 1978-1979, Noel W. Hinners, 1979-1982, Walter J. Boyne ( acting 1982 – 1983, director 1983-1986 ), James C. Tyler ( acting ), 1986-1987, Martin O. Harwit, 1987-1995, Donald D. Engen, 1996-1999, and John R. Dailey, 2000 – present

Fuze Beverage was founded by Lance Collins and creative director Paula Grant in the basement of Collins ' Englewood Cliffs, NJ home in 2000.

A rarely used term to describe these is sudden antenatal death syndrome or SADS, a phrase coined by Cacciatore & Collins in 2000.

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Hightech Products to Mainstream Customers ( 1991, revised 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 ) New York: Harper Collins.

in 2000, and in 2003 Martine McCutcheon: Behind the Scenes – A Personal Diary, was published by Harper Collins.