from the book:
Laurie David is a pain in the ass. She’s the wife of Larry David...She’s also an environmental crusader and Hollywood heavy-hitter when it comes to raising money for liberal causes. But mostly she’s a pain in the ass...Laurie David is a true believer, the kind of activist who gets in the face of perfect strangers and reviles them as “terrorist enablers” for committing the unforgivable sin of—driving an SUV.
(She yells at other drivers for driving gas guzzlers but how does she get around? In a gas guzzling Gulfstream jet. Someone did a little research and found that the amount of fuel burned in one Gulfstream flight is equal to someone driving a Hummer for a year. “But then conservation is
something other people should do.”
Goldberg: “Imagine if some stranger stopped HER on Rodeo drive and scolder HER for living in a huge Beverly Hills mansion that consumes enough energy to light up China for a couple years.”
That “minor thing” ended up costing David $900 in fines — $300/day until a restoration plan was submitted. In the latest incident, boards and rocks were laid over wetlands to create a road enabling heavy equipment to get to the site of the tennis court.