A look inside Hollywood and the movies incorporating Outtakes, Cinefile and Production Chart. : FUN COUPLES : The Phone Rings, It’s Warren--<i> Action! Cut!</i> Some Words Aren’t Meant to Be

In her new concert film, “Truth or Dare,” to be released by Miramax Films on May 10, Madonna was determined to put herself out there, warts and all. But unfortunately, ex-boyfriend Warren Beatty--a man whose antipathy toward public exposure is exceeded only by Madonna’s addiction to it--didn’t share her agenda.

One of the segments he insisted be cut: a phone conversation recorded by the singer without his knowledge.

“Truth or Dare” editor Barry Alexander Brown (whose own directorial debut--the comedy “Lonely in America”--was screened last week at the AFI International Film Festival) says it was the personal nature of the conversation--as well as being caught “blindside” to which Beatty objected. “It wasn’t fair,” Madonna said in an interview in the May 7 issue of the Advocate. “Plus it’s a federal offense.”

“Warren was most uptight about the statement ‘I love you, honey,’ ” Brown recalls. “He thought it looked bad for him now that the two are no longer together. I thought that moment was endearing, very sweet, myself. It showed a side of him few people see.”

Madonna agreed and, Beatty’s protest notwithstanding, applied her considerable ingenuity to keep the segment in. “We tried taking out Warren’s voice and using subtitles instead--which, in itself, is probably just this side of the law,” Brown says. “The matter never came to a head, however, because a phone conversation with subtitles just looked silly.”