Roman Polanski  Roman Polanski  Thirty years after he became a
fugitive to avoid a prison sentence for having sex with a
teenager, Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski asked a
judge Tuesday to dismiss the case.  In the motion filed in Los
Angeles County Superior Court, lawyers for Polanski alleged
"repeated, unlawful and unethical misconduct" by a prosecutor
and the trial judge and requested that the charge which prompted
him to flee the country be dropped "in the interests of
justice."  Polanski, whose films include "Rosemary's Baby" and
"Chinatown," acknowledged having sex with a 13-year-old girl in
actor Jack Nicholson's Mulholland Drive home in 1977 and pleaded
guilty to a charge of unlawful intercourse with a minor. But the
next year, on the eve of his sentencing, which he believed would
bring prison time, he fled to London.  The request to dismiss
the charge, which took court officials and prosecutors by
surprise, is based on revelations in a documentary broadcast in
June on HBO. The film, "Rom