By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A Hollywood screenwriter was hit in the head as he looked to see if a subway train was pulling into the station on Sunday, the New York Post reported.
Will Rokos, 57, was leaning too close toward the edge of the platform as he watched for an uptown 2 train at the West 14th station, according to the Post. The Upper West Side resident was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he is lested in critical, but stable condition.
Witnesses of the 4:10 p.m. collision saw him fly backward before landing, semi-conscious, on the train platform, the paper reported. Rokos lay on his side with his hand twitching. Witnesses said skin had been ripped off his face.
"He tried to push himself up," a Post staffer on scene said in the paper. "We told him to stay down and he said, 'OK, OK.'"
Rokos, who has acted in films and plays, was nominated in 2002 for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Monster's Ball," starring Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton.
