Lily Tomlin calls the 6-year-old animated alter-ego to whom she gives voice in her second Edith Ann special (tonight from 8:30-9 p.m. on ABC) "an animated heroine who's a real little girl.

Lily Tomlin is probably best known for her sketch comedy characters Ernestine, the chronically unhelpful phone operator; Edith Ann, the smugly precocious 6-year-old; the nut-job philosopher that ...