Madonna starts to show her age

London: She makes great efforts to look youthful but it was not her day at a film premier where `Queen of Pop` Madonna could not hide from the unflattering glare of a camera flash which made her look old.Arriving for a film screening, the 51-year-old singer chose to wear oversized dark glasses despite the evening hour. Pictured on the way out, she might have wished she had kept them on, Daily Mail online reported.

A surprised look and arched eyebrows did not quite tally with a wrinkle-free forehead, making for a bizarre and unnatural appearance which was not helped by the fact that the skin around her eyes also appeared pulled taut. Thick red lipstick, which seemed to have been hastily applied, served only to accentuate the uneven look of her mouth. She was attending a showing of `A Single Man`, the directorial debut of her friend the fashion designer Tom Ford, at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York. After watching the film, Madonna accompanied Ford to the after-party. Her toyboy lover Jesus Luz was absent as he is on a DJ tour of his native Brazil. But Madonna had plenty of big names to keep her company last night, including Courtney Love, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, Kevin Bacon, REM frontman Michael Stipe and Julianne Moore. The film stars Colin Firth as a gay British university professor named George Falconer living in southern California during the sixties. PTI