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Leaving L.A.helpsEricMabius land new role TV SPOTLIGHT
He'd scored nicely early on when he costarred in two independent films that were
By Luaine Lee McClatchy-Tribune News Service
roundly praised at the Sundance Film Festival, "Wel-
PASADENA, Calif. — Eric
Mabius is one actor who claims you CAN go home again. In fact, he and his wife did just that. After his popular series, "Ugly Betty," was canceled, Mabius admits he was heartbroken.
come to the Dollhouse" and "I Shot Andy Warhol." He trekked to L.A. with his
girlfriend with no intention of staying. "We were visiting her mother in Santa Monica and I remember the coldest winter
and 7, says, "I just focused on my boys. And I brushed myself off and picked myself up. And the big key to the evolution of feeling content is getting rid of everything. We sold everything in California and moved back to
we'd had in New York in 20 years. My car was snowed in
Massachusetts."
Mabius kept trying. He eventually landed a slew of guest
on the street for two weeks
because I couldn't get it out. I just stayed. I thought, 'Oh, I can do this. Maybe I can.'"
Scores of pilots followed. Most were not picked up, but
Contrary to popular belief, is starring in the Hallmark Channel's spritely original series, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," in which he plays the chief of postal detectives in the Dead Letter Office.
The team's mission is to
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Hallmark Channel via The Mcclatchy Tribune News Service
Word," "The O.C.," "Ugly Betty" and made the series, "Out-
Eric Mabius stars as a "detective" based in the Dead Letter Office on "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" on Hallmark Channel.
He'd already debilitated his ego when he helped with the
casts," in South A f r ica for British television. cleared almost tw o a cres," "For the longest time when he says proudly, "milled the people asked me what I did-
birth of his f irst child. "It's
wood at a friend's mill, had
especially when I first moved
one thing to be married to
the wood mill build a 36-foot
to L.A. — for quite a while I
woodshed, got nine cords up someone by blood and to help before the fall came and took years later. A missing missive bring them into the world ... if raw earth, and tilled 25 traccan make all the difference. you haven't done it, it sounds torbuckets of horse manure As it turns out, a canceled trite. But when that happens from the horse farm. And my show can too. you live for someone else, ful- wife and I grew anything we "I didn't want (to live) the ly and completely — having wanted to. That was the first Catch 22," says Mabius over someone else who's absolute- season. I'm good with my lunch at a hotel restaurant ly dependent upon you for the hands and love getting dirty, return errant mail to its intended recipients, sometimes
8 p.m.on 2 9,"The Middle"
— Sue (EdenSher) enters Ehlert Motors' "Hands on a Hard Body" contest, hoping to win a car by keeping her hands on it the longest. Mike's (Neil Flynn) brother, Rusty (Norm Macdonald), joins him on a road trip to Chicago for Brick's (Atticus Shaffer) spelling bee. Frankie (Patricia Heaton) tries to help Axl (Charlie McDermott) find a missing desk in the new episode"Heck on a Hard Body."
said, 'Let's just not go back.' I
The father of two sons, 5
that didn't destroy his career. In fact, it vitalized it. Mabius
TV TODAY
someone, but to be related to
But everything up to now has led to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," he says, a show he sees as a positive rendering in an often-negative landscape. Mabius, 43, is a perfection-
would say that I was a janitorjustto see their responses. Because EVERYONE s a id
they were an actor. Everyone ist about his work and impaexists in such a state of 'want' here. Most of them aren't sure
tient with those who aren't.
"It's a constant work-in-progress the way you imagine a this state of want," he says. scene," he says. "I was raised in western "When you go to act, it's here. "I have to work to pay first time ever in your life. It's and that's what we do with Massachusetts and I like to perfect in your mind's eye for this big house. My kids brought all the most wonder- the boys every day. Nothing think my head is screwed on and you always spend time don't need a big house. They ful things in my life." makes me happier." straight, and I appreciate the trying to get to that. That's just need to be with their dad When he and his wife, a But it wasn't always that outdoors and things that are the job. But it's frustrating and their mom, that's part of ceramicist, pulled up stakes way. While a struggling ac- real. Fortunately I had that because it's never done. It's turning your focus outward and moved east, they bought tor, he waited tables and lived foundation when I came out the thesis and antithesis. And as opposed to inward — and a small farm situated be- with a roommate in a $700 (to L.A.) Christmas of 1995 what goes out is this third it's not about your ego." ap ar t m ent. with the bags on my back." 'other' thing." hind a larger horse ranch. "I two-bedroom what they want, but they're in
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