"A well-placed tipster" tells Owen Thomas that Google's kabillionaire CEO, Eric Schmidt, was pulled over last month in Los Angeles for talking on his cell phone while driving. And furthermore, Schmidt was talking to since-deposed Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang "to discuss how to get a proposed advertising deal past government regulators." That last bit sounds like it runs with the unicorns, but nonetheless: Don't say I didn't warn you. [Valleywag]

According to El Mayimbe, Russell Crowe may play Professor Moriarity in Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes," which will star Robert Downey Jr. Mayimbe also says that Gerard Butler was offered the role of Dr. Watson (a role Crowe was also rumored to play), but passed. [Latino Review; art credit, too]

CityFile (via Thompson on Hollywood)
They just paid $4.5 million for a ninth-floor loft at 166 Duane St. The building is also home to Time Warner chairman Dick Parsons.

Politico
Writes Jeffrey Ressner, "Anyone looking for a good reason why the mainstream media took so long to get onboard with the tabloid-sourced news about John Edwards’ affair need only look to a story that ran this week about Barack Obama and actor George Clooney." Ressner follows the "Clooney is Barack's Blackberry buddy" story from its anonymously sourced birth at U.K.tabloid the Daily Mail through its death at the hands of Clooney's denial, which included the promise of $1 million for anyone who could prove otherwise.