Diane Keaton’s Beirut stint, Shaden’s cockroach complex and a Kafkaesque Nobel laureate

I’ve spent plenty of quality time with my friends this week, whether in real life over peppermint tea or on FaceTime, and my appreciation for them brought me to waterworks. The drama… But seriously, we often overlook the importance of our respective tribes in the stir-craziness of everyday life. I wouldn't be who I am today without the love marks that my entourage has stamped on my life’s supercut.For this edition, I’ve chosen to focus on people — an ode to those who have made or continue to make indelible marks in their own milieus. Last week's BiB Soap Kills sonics, Lebanon's pageant queen and moviegoing as antidote: Kick it old school Late Diane Keaton almost shot a film in Beirut?After Diane Keaton’s passing on Oct. 11 at 79, this memorial looks beyond “Annie Hall” and “The Godfather” to one of her rarest turns — an...