Spacey Disputes NY Magazine Report
Wed Sep 18, 9:06 AM ET

NEW YORK (AP) - Kevin Spacey wants the world to know that he has never been to Fire Island.

In a letter to the editor in this week's issue of New
York magazine, the actor took gossip columnist Marc Malkin to task for reporting that Spacey was renting a palatial house on the island off Long Island's southern coast, complete with a private boat.

Spacey called the item, titled "Spacey out in Fire Island," a "total inaccuracy."

Spacey wrote that he'd never been to Fire Island and quipped that he couldn't possibly have visited the island because he had spent the summer at an amusement park in Boise, Idaho.

The actor then switched to a more serious tone.

"While I understand that most of your reporting is done in good fun and that this particular story does not appear to have been written with malicious intent," Spacey wrote, "it is so completely untrue that it seems to warrant a reexamination by New York of the freedom it gives to reporters who write anything they want without concern for the facts."

what's more irritating, spacey's barely-guarded fear at being taken for gay, his ignorance of political and constitutional reality or his eagerness to reexamine reporters' freedom to write what they want?

  ¶ 6:12 PM