"As we were embracing and saying good-bye, he said 'I'm sorry, I have to excuse myself,' and he left for the rest room. He had only flown from Washington State and was sweating, uncomfortable from the temperature in the room. I thought he had flown to California from Tennessee and was suffering jet lag. "In retrospect, there were symptoms that could have been put down as a symptoms of a heart attack. "I had no idea, nor did he, that he was ill," said Erman. John Erman had had lunch with Alex Haley the day that he died. He and the writer, who had worked with Mr. He was the reason I wanted to be involved."Īfter Haley died, she turned to the show's director. "Any question I had was assuaged by the thought that Mr. "I was wondering who and what would be in charge of quality control in the production," said Guy. A year ago, Jasmine Guy auditioned to play writer Alex Haley's great-grandmother in the television miniseries "Queen." The author of "Roots" died the same week.
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