Henry Winkler and Adam Sandler have shared the screen a handful of times over the years, but Winkler's role in one of their most famous movies together, 1998's The Waterboy, was entirely unplanned.

That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Henry Winkler said that he was compensated with only “a cookie” after he agreed last-minute to be in Adam Sandler’s 1998 comedy “The Waterboy.” “I did ‘Waterboy.’ ...