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In the grand tradition of making movies with cute, anthropomorphic robots - a la "Short Circuit" and "Star Wars" (if you can call a handful of movies a tradition) - "WALL-E," Pixar's latest creation under its contract to Disney, is a definite crowd pleaser, with plenty of Pixar's trademark wit and storytelling heart. WALL-E, which stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-class," is the last of his model left behind to clean up the garbage dump that humans made of Earth. Mankind fled on a permanent vacation five centuries ago aboard a gigantic, corporate-sponsored cruise space-ship with