VLVL2: Why Clara Bow?

[Tim Strzechowski]

> And another part of the
> joke is indeed the casting, though it's more often a case of
dissimilarity,
> or a strange sort of lateral thinking-type symmetry, rather than
similarity
> (Pia Zadora is totally miscast as Clara Bow, for example, and John Ritter
> plays Bryant Gumbel!) I don't think the casting necessarily follows any
sort
> of rhyme or reason, which is also part of Pynchon's play in mocking the
> genre.
>

I understand what you're saying, but isn't part of Pynchon's "rhyme or
reason" with this running gag based on the the dissimilarity you've just
mentioned?