PSYCH FOR SORE EYES

Try as they might, the writers of The Bold and the Beautiful just can’t make Ian Buchanan look bad. As shrink Dr. James Warwick, currently being held hostage by a nutty client, he looks elegant even unshaven and unwashed. Still, Buchanan, 39, doesn’t think himself the least bit dashing. ”I was an overweight child,” he says. ”All through my teens I wished I’d someday be ! thought of as attractive, someone who wore clothes well. Sometimes, even now, I don’t know if I am.” Today, many consider him soapdom’s best-dressed man. And all eyes will be on him at the Daytime Emmys (May 19, NBC), where he’s a contender for Best Supporting Actor (you think it was easy playing a 36-year- old virgin?). For this former General Hospital and Twin Peaks star, there is no greater compliment. ”I never consider myself a leading man,” he shrugs, ”just an actor.”