Soap opera actress Darlene Conley, best known for playing Sally Spectra for the past 20 years on The Bold and the Beautiful, lost her battle with cancer over the weekend. She was 72.

Conley, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer just three months ago, also played characters on Days of our Lives and General Hospital -- and many knew her as black market baby broker Rose DeVille onThe Young and the Restless.

Before embarking on a daytime career, Conley made appearances in movies The Birds and Valley of the Dolls and on television shows such as Murder, She Wrote, Cagney & Lacey, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

City Slickers actor Bruno Kirby died on Monday in Los Angeles from complications related to leukemia, his wife shared in a statement concerning his death. Kirby was 57 and had only recently been diagnosed with the disease.

A veteran character actor, Kirby was known for roles in The Godfather: Part II, Good Morning Vietnam, When Harry Met Sally, and City Slickers. Most recently, Kirby appeared on HBOs Entourage as fictitious producer Phil Rubenstein.

Kirby's wife shared in her statement, "We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support we have received from Bruno's fans and colleagues who have admired and respected his work over the past 30 years. Bruno's spirit will continue to live on not only in his rich body of film and television work but also through the lives of individuals he has touched throughout his life."

And even though he has passed, Kirby will continue to touch lives -- because all contributions in his honor will be go to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Los Angeles.

Death. We all have to face it yet for many it is an uncomfortable subject to think about much less talk about. Why do we have such a hard time facing it, fearing it, struggling with it? It is an ending here on earth and no one likes endings.

One of my all-time favorite actresses Sally Field, is taking a lead role in a film that is a bittersweet comedy about four adult siblings who gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped -- together -- for two weeks. Hence the title Two Weeks. It is a movie with a tough subject matter -- living with dying. In the movie Sally Field is playing a woman dying of cancer and only has four more days to live. She ends up living a lot longer.

''It's a human comedy. About the truth of what happens when you deal with this at home. A lot is very funny and a lot is very sad,'' director and writer Steve Stockman said.

Sally Field in no stranger to acting roles facing death with her characters in Forest Gump and Steel Magnolias. I for one can't wait to see this film that is full of great actors like Ben Chaplin, Tom Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson, Glenn Howerton and Clea Duvall. The film is being shot entirely in Nashville. I hope to see another Oscar in the hands of Sally Field. Yes, we love you Sally.