Bruce Newman has interviewed the President of the United States in the Oval Office; Kareem Abdul Jabbar as he sat on a circular bed under a mirrored ceiling in a Las Vegas hotel on the eve of becoming the NBA’s all-time scoring leader; and George Clooney in a Jacuzzi at the actor’s home. Even when he encountered subjects that had corners, Newman rarely cut them while writing for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Los Angeles Times.
