2) He shares his birthday with Warren Beatty, Eric Clapton and Vincent van Gogh.

3) Deas was born in Connellsville, PA, but (due to his father's business
travels) spent his childhood in a wide variety of locales, including Mexico
City and Tehran.

4) His wife is actress Margaret Colin, whom he met on AS THE WORLD TURNS when they played lovers-on-the-run Tom Hughes and Margo Montgomery.

5) Deas won his first Daytime Emmy (Outstanding Supporting Actor, 1984) for his portrayal of ATWT's Tom.

6) In that 1984 Emmy race, he beat Anthony Call (Herb, OLTL), Louis Edmonds (Langley, AMC), David Lewis (Edward, GH) and Paul Stevens (Brian, AW).

7) Justin Deas made his soap opera debut on RYAN'S HOPE as young Dr. Bucky Carter.

8) Rosie O'Donnell insists that Bucky Carter is her favorite soap opera
character.

9) In "From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman: The Illustrated History of Soap Operas," Robert LaGuardia wrote: "Bucky Carter [Justin Deas] was Pat Ryan's best friend and fellow intern. He loved Dr. Coleridge's daughter Faith [Faith Catlin], another intern, but Faith secretly loved Pat."

10) When Deas married Margaret Colin, early in 1988, Soap Opera Digest reported that the wedding took place in New York and "the bride wore her mother's wedding dress

11) After attending William and Mary College, Justin Deas trained at the
Juilliard School in New York (Christopher Reeve's acting alma mater).
Justin's teacher in the advanced class at Juilliard was the late Oscar-winner John Houseman (of "Paper Chase" fame).

12) Justin's classmates at Juilliard included Kevin Kline and Patti Lupone.

13) Justin once referred (in print) to his Tom Hughes successor on WORLD TURNS as "Karl Marx." He meant Gregg Marx.

14) The actor won two consecutive Supporting Actor Emmys (1988, '89) for his role of D.A. Keith Timmons on SANTA BARBARA.

15) In the 1988 race, he beat Bernard Barrow (Johnny, RH), Nicolas Coster (Lionel, SB), Mark LaMura (Mark, AMC) and David Lewis (Edward, GH).

16) In the 1989 race, he outdistanced Joseph Campanella (Harper, DAYS), David Forsyth (John, AW) and Quinn Redeker (Rex, Y&R).

17) In the 5/6/97 issue of Soap Opera Digest, Wendy Moniz (Dinah), Elizabeth Keifer (Blake) and Cynthia Watros (Annie) all told editor Adam Kelley that Justin Deas would be their #1 choice to work with if Hart, Ross and Josh were out of the picture.

18) Moniz called Deas "the sexiest man ever... Whenever I see him playing a romantic scene, he just exudes sexuality."

19) Watros said that Deas is sexy "even when he comes in in the morning, and his hair's sticking up, and he has on those sweats that you just know he wore to bed last night."

20) In the same interview, Keifer added that Justin "has this strength; he
just devours the woman he's with."

21) Justin's wife, Margaret Colin, who's 40, starred in "The Devil's Own" and "Independence Day" (in which she played Jeff Goldblum's ex).

22) Colin got her primetime TV start in the 1985 sitcom FOLEY SQUARE. She played Asst. D.A. Alex Harrigan. Deas once guest starred on the show.

23) Colin and Deas have two young sons, Samuel and Joseph.

24) He also has a 28-year-old daughter, Yvie, from a short-lived, early
marriage.

25) Deas has appeared in numerous stage productions -- everything from the original off-Broadway cast of Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize winning drama, "Crimes of the Heart" to a less memorable show called "Porn Stars at Home."

26) He once played Kenickie in a road tour production of "Grease."

27) He's won a Supporting Actor Emmy (1994) and two Lead Actor Emmys (1995, '97) for his role of Buzz Cooper on GUIDING LIGHT.

28) In the 1994 Emmy race, Deas beat Ian Buchanan (James, B&B), Thom Christopher (Carlo, OLTL), Patrick Tovatt (Cal, ATWT) and Jerry ver Dorn (Ross, GL).

29) In the 1995 Emmy race, he triumphed over Peter Bergman (Jack, Y&R), David Canary (Adam/Stuart, AMC), Brad Maule (Tony, GH) and Michael Zaslow (Roger, GL).

30) In the 1997 Emmy race, he outdistanced Peter Bergman (Jack, Y&R), Eric Braeden (Victor, Y&R) David Canary (Adam/Stuart, AMC) and Anthony Geary (Luke, GH).

31) In 1991, Deas co-starred with ANOTHER WORLD's Elain Graham (Etta Mae) in a production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" at the Hartford Stage Company in CT. "I played Portia, and he was my Brutus," recalls Graham. "Working with Justin was fabulous. He's such a giving actor. We had a great time."

32) On GUIDING LIGHT Buzz's full name is Frank Achilles Cooper, Sr.

33) The MIA war vet was first mentioned extensively on air on January 8,
1993. On that episode -- taped on location in Washington, D.C. -- Harley (Beth Ehlers) and A.C. Mallet (Mark Derwin) visited the Vietnam War Memorial and discovered that her father, Buzz Cooper, was not listed on the monument.

34) Deas made his unforgettable debut as Buzz on February 5, 1993.

35) In 1986, Deas co-starred in the feature film, "Dream Lover," with Kristy McNichol. He was directed by Alan Pakula, whose string of Hollywood hits included "All the President's Men" and "Sophie's Choice." The film was not a success.

36) Occasionally, on ATWT, Justin's character of Tom Hughes dressed up in drag, as part of his undercover crimestopping efforts. The actor later told writer Michael Logan, "The spike-heels were wonderful! I was finally as tall as the women on the show!"

37) Buzz has a way with words. One time, when he phoned the Spaulding house and the household help wouldn't put him through, he railed: "Is it like rich people give their servants 'vague' lessons?"

38) Buzz and Nadine had some great moments. Once, Nadine sulked that "my tear ducts are my best developed muscles." "I wouldn't say that," deadpanned Buzz.

39) Jean Carol summed up the rocky Buzz/Nadine relationship like this: "I
think they will always be connected; I don't think they couldn't be. In fact,
there was a line in my script where I said, 'We will always love each other.'

40) As for working with Deas, who has a reputation for being brilliant but
unorthodox, Jean Carol admitted that it was always a challenge. "You have to be on your toes with Justin," she told Soap Opera Digest editor Stella Bednarz. "He's famous for kissing people on the spur of the moment -- extras, under-fives, men. But it's fun to throw him a curve."

41) Justin Deas is one of the few stars to appear simultaneously on a daytime soap and a game show. In July 1994, Buzz and Nadine became contestants on the wild and wacky fictional game show, SOUL MATES.

42) Fiona Hutchison (Jenna) gives acting partner Deas high marks for
spontaneity. "He's fiery," she admits. "I love working with him, because he's just as unpredictable as I am in a sense that I don't know what he's going to do, and he doesn't necessarily know what I am going to do, and somehow we just know how to gauge each other. I couldn't put [our working relationship] into words. I always try to, but it never comes out sounding the way it feels."

43) Buzz once advised daughter Lucy: "We shouldn't quit work the same day. People will think it's hereditary."

44) Buzz and Alexandra have a wonderfully feisty rapport. On one occasion, the high-falutin' Madame Spaulding offered him a watercress sandwich. "What, no bologna?" asked Buzz.

45) On September 19, 1994, Buzz and Nadine won the championship round on SOUL MATES. (They also wound up getting re-hitched in order to avoid being disqualified.)

46) In the summer of 1993, newly-back-from-the-dead Buzz compared notes with Blake, whose dad Roger also had a penchant for rising from the grave. "Okay," asked Buzz, "so when he came home, did he say he had amnesia or what?" Blake retorted, "Please, he wouldn't insult our intelligence."

47) Speaking with TV columnist Michael Logan, Deas described wife Margaret Colin as follows: "She's a brilliant actress, an incandescent talent. I am thunderstruck by her gifts."

48) During the Fifth Street fire, GL focused almost exclusively on Buzz (who was trapped on the diner rooftop) for an entire episode. In an unforgettable series of monologues, Buzz raged at God, the world -- and just about everything except baklava.

49) A scene to remember: Buzz and Alex shooting hoops behind the diner.

50) Little "Coop" -- the last of Buzz's four children, but the first he'll
actually raise in a two-parent environment -- is named Henry Cooper-Bradshaw. (FYI: Viewers first learned of Coop's birth on the 1994 Christmas episode.)