Article: Slowing down? At 71, 'Grass Harp' star Jack Lemmon is speeding up.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

BEVERLY HILLS _ Most men when they reach their 70s are slowing down, reclining in their Strato-loungers, advising football coaches on the errors of their ways and turning downright grumpy.

Though he's played a grumpy old man twice, and he's 71, Jack Lemmon wouldn't know a Strato-lounger from a VW bus.

``I know this sounds self-serving and I don't mean it that way at all, but for some reason or other in the last year and the coming year I'm getting more damn offers and with some very good parts than I've ever had,'' says Lemmon shaking his head.

One of those parts is the role of the slick con-man who steals Sissy Spacek's heart in ``The Grass Harp,'' ...

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