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Curtain Call   Soap Opera News Oct. 20, 1998   Soap Opera News Gives This Weeks Standing Ovation to OLTL's Bo - ROBERT S. WOODS   Bo Buchanan thought he'd finally have the chance to be a father to his son Drew. Both wanted to make up for all the time they'd lost, and it looked as if there would be a very happy ending. Instead, cruel fate stepped in.   Following in his father's footsteps, Drew was trying to be the best cop he could be, but in one split second all of Bo's hopes for the future were shattered when Drew was killed in the line of duty. Robert S. Woods(Bo) is the consummate actor's actor, and it was never more evident than in the scenes immediately following Bo's shocking discovery of his son's death.   There were no words needed and none were said, but all the emotions of a bereaved father were etched in Woods's face. And as tears filled his eyes, they filled ours, too!   Growing up, Drew lived with his mother, Becky Lee, and although Bo tried to find them, he couldn't. Then Drew showed up in Llanview, but things didn't run smoothly and he left. Then, without warning Drew again returned, only this time he tried to make things right with his dad. He secretly joined the police cadet program, and the first time Bo knew his son had returned was when, at graduation, Drew's name was announced at as being the top of his class.   Yet their reunion was rocky at first, Bo was accused of killing Georgie Phillips, but Drew knew his dad didn't do it. He tried to clear his father by confessing to the murder himself. since Drew had known Georgie before he returned to Llanview. When the real killer, Rachel Gannon, was revealed, Bo and Drew slowly began to put their lives back together.   Then Drew was killed. Quietly, Bo disappeared with Drew's body. He took his son to the lodge where they were supposed to go fishing the next day. He sat on the front steps, cradling his dead son and, as music played in the background, talked to him about baseball and other things fathers discuss with their sons. It was a heartbreaking moment for all who witnessed it---- and for the actor who lived it.   "They played a Cat Stevens song," Woods says, "and they played it to the set floor, so I could hear it. Music sets a tone, a mood. Did you ever hear hear certain songs that make you well up? And the dialogue, too----that line Bo says that kids should be bigger than their dads, stronger and all that. That got me, because I always believed my dad just lived his life for me."   Bo then took his son inside, closed the door to the outside world, placed Drew on the bed and began to tell him about his own childhood.   "Maybe Bo thought Drew will answer something. Bo was so out of it. It's like 'let me tell you about my childhood and you tell me about the one I didn't get to share with you,' "explains Woods. The scenes that followed were equally as moving, filled with love of a man who'd never again get the chance to be a father to his son. Scenes that could never be easy for an actor who's a real life father.(His son, Tanner, will be 8 next month.)   "It was all there. The mood was right, it was in the words," says Woods. The hardest this is, you just have to go for it. You let it all hang out and break down in front of your friends. The cameramen, the crew, guys you're usually joking with----suddenly they're real quiet. It got them, too! I was proud if those days. They were tough, but a challenge. I'm tickled to have had a chance to do something other than the regular stuff." No more thankful than viewers were to have had the privilege of seeing it.   ****In the mood: Woods credits the choice of music and the writer's words with setting the tone for his superb performance.*****