President's Day holiday news and notes

Oscar voters are nearly 94% Caucasian, 77% male and have a median age of 62, the LA Times found in a detailed study that involved more than 20 reporters and researchers. Blacks make up about 2% of the membership, Latinos less than 2%, and just 14% of all members are younger than 50, the Times says. LAT/methodology
Woody Allen won the Writers Guild of America best original screenplay award for "Midnight in Paris," and Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won best adapted screenplay for "The Descendants."
"Crappy newspaper executives are a bigger threat to journalism’s future than any changes wrought by the Internet," says John Paton, the CEO of the company that now runs the Dean Singleton newspapers here (Daily News, Daily Breeze, Star-News etc). Romenesko
LAUSD Supt. John Deasy released a four-minute video on the situation at Miramonte Elementary that assures the staff that most of them will be able to return to the campus eventually. LAT
"The Colbert Report" will resume taping on Monday after a brief hiatus for host Stephen Colbert to handle a family situation. NYT
Los Angeles will get an NFL team but it will need to win to be embraced by fans, participants in a Zocalo/UCLA panel agreed.
The owner of the car wash at Figueroa and Olympic, next to the Figueroa Hotel, is finally ready to cash in on the developer frenzy at that end of Downtown. Asking price: $25 million. Downtown News
The LA Times hired Chad Terhune as health care reporter, moved Metro reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske to the Houston bureau, and is bringing David Meeks from the Washington bureau to Los Angeles to be assistant political editor for online. Ashley Powers is moving from Las Vegas to take the civil courts beat for Metro, to be replaced in Nevada (as we previously reported) by Seoul bureau chief John Glionna. Readers' Representative
Christopher Myers, the 19-year-old-son of Fox Sports anchor Chris Myers, was killed in a car accident in Southern California, the network announced.

Will Lewis was re-elected to another term as president of the Los Angeles Press Club. Martha Sarabia of La Opinion is vice president, Beth Barrett is treasurer and Jane Engle is secretary.