a) I'm sorry that your insurance company and the pharmacy combined to make you sicker. I hope there is some surcease soon.

b) On point 4)-- I haven't seen the 80s _Beauty and the Beast_ since the 80s, but I was quite fond of it then, in large part because of how it played with shadows on very thin people's faces. Also, it had great voices. Anyway. Um, not sure, but it couldn't hurt?