Who will win....the most interesting fashion award at the Tonys tonight?

Frances McDormand has a lot of winning ways--just take a glance at her filmography--but she won my everlasting respect last year when she showed up to snag a Tony dressed like this and gave a bordline belligerant acceptance speech. 

Charles Isherwood sez the Tony Awards are often just "three-hour promos for the Broadway brand," but hey, let's talk about the movie award circuit, where terror of the dreaded FASHION FAIL has programmed women into gleaming cyborgs, parroting the names of designers at each shoved microphone.  In fact, fashion designers get far more play at the Oscars than the people who, you know, make the actual movies.  

Occasionally, the programming of an Oscar cyborg will malfunction,
causing an odd jerking and thashing out of limbs.

So maybe the Tonys are worth a little Nielson love tonight.  The Times' Patrick Healy sez it will be a race to the finish http://tinyurl.com/7jvqx8j and here the luke-warm Charles Isherwood tap dances down memory lane to share his Tony show performance favs. http://tinyurl.com/7oz8jjf