Now, nightly, there are other people's even more personal stories being played out on the set of Enquirer, and of course in newspapers every single day.
The DNA of the man, Carlton Gary, matches evidence found at the scene of the 1975 killing of Marion Fisher, a 40-year-old teacher whose body was found beside a road in Syracuse, according to reports Thursday in The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus and The Post-Standard of Syracuse.
The mood of Enquirer is one of regret rather than indignation, a plangent evocation of the end of an era.
Over in Glasgow, it's your last chance (at until it heads to London in the autumn) to catch Enquirer, National Theatre of Scotland's examination of the press, at the Hub in Glasgow.
A randomly selected sample of 100 QAPs was characterized with regard to type of question (category, patient-specific or general), occupation and workplace of enquirer, the type of information search performed (simple or advanced), and if the answers contained information to provide factual or consultative replies (facts about or advice on clinical use of CAM, respectively).
The mechanics of these stunts make for lively anecdotes, as does the Enquirer method of holding sources captive to keep them away from other reporters.
"I read Lives as an exploration of the boundaries between fiction and reality," says Atwood, "because in each of the stories the young girl takes up a certain kind of fiction or a story - sometimes it's a novel she gets from the library, sometimes it's the lurid National Enquirer type of newspapers, in one instance it's a relative who's writing an interminable history of the region.
The reviewer for The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote of the book that it "begins nowhere and ends in nothing".
It is common practice at The Enquirer to pay sources thousands of dollars, and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars, for such information.
Indeed, early in the 2016 campaign Pecker simply turned over the pages of the Enquirer to Trump, allowing the candidate to write columns under his own byline.
