Particularly revealing is the scene where the evil Jade Fox (veteran kung-fu movie star Cheng Pei-pei) decries the fact that she couldn't read, while her student Jen could and therefore surpassed the teacher in achievement and skill.

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Monty Python star Terry Jones just raised enough money to publish Evil Machines, a collection of 13 short stories about gadgets, which have a mind of their own.

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