As the writers and directors of the movie “Airplane!,” we were asked to briefly play ourselves in “Winning Time.” Because we had never seen the script, we were surprised to see the actor playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Solomon Hughes) say to a child actor, in response to an autograph request, “F— off, kid.” We had never seen anything like that on the “Airplane!” set. In fact, during the “Airplane!” shoot, and in the years since, we’ve found Kareem to be both professional and kind.