NYC- Satellite-radio newcomer Howard Stern claims the director of an Off-Broadway religious satire betrayed his actress-daughter Emily - who appeared naked in the show before quitting abruptly last week - by using her name and image to attract media attention.
But Stern himself can't seem to stop talking about the incident on his own show.
"My daughter did a play, The New York Times reviewed it and said it had no redeeming value," Stern told listeners of his debut program on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Yesterday, the shock jock acknowledged that he "advised" his 22-year-old daughter not to join the cast of Tuvia Tenenbom's "Kabbalah" - in which she played Madonna for six weeks at the Jewish Theater of New York.
By contrast, Stern told CNN's Larry King last week: "I was unaware of the show."
Yesterday, Stern recounted his advice to his daughter before she joined the cast: "If you're doing 'The Blue Room,' like Nicole Kidman did," then appearing nude would be fine. "It's a producer you can trust, a director that's good for you." But "this way, I don't think it's the way to do it."
Stern claimed Tenenbom promised Emily - "a tremendous actress" - that videos or photos of her wouldn't be used to sell tickets.
She quit last week, forcing the cancellation of the run, because Tenenbom broke his word, Stern charged.
Yesterday, Tenenbom insisted that he kept his promise to Emily Stern not to publicize her famous parentage, and that she was fine with the photos and videos and remained in the show for several weeks after they were posted on the theater's Web site.
"As far as I can tell, this guy is a habitual liar," Tenenbom retorted. "I am shocked that on his first day in 'heaven' [a sarcastic reference to Sirius], he feels no shame about using his own daughter for publicity."
