By Stacy Jenel Smith

The celebrity tell-all never really goes out of style, but with the recent release of Mackenzie Phillips' and Dustin Diamond's respective memoirs, the genre is back in the spotlight once again.

Recent years have seen a parade of shocking revelations -- along with oddball moments, feuds, high living, and bitchy remarks -- flipping by us in the pages of such books. Who could say no to all that?

Those celebs who don't want to tell all in a tell-all have little chance of succeeding these days. Angie Dickinson and Joanna Carson (one of Johnny's exes) are among those who've changed their minds about doing books when publishers pushed for more juice than they were willing to give.

Following are our 10 Most Memorable (good and bad) Celebrity Tell-Alls.

1. Tori Spelling made dishing on herself, her randy "Beverly Hills, 90210" cast mates, and -- especially -- the extravagant luxury and strangeness of the Aaron and Candy Spelling household into irresistible reading in her 2008 No. 1 best seller, "sTORI Telling." Her super-producer dad had snow trucked in to their mansion's tennis courts as a Christmas morning surprise. Her mother dressed her up in adult costumes -- complete with fake breasts and hip enhancements sewn inside -- when she was five years old and never seemed to fully approve of her.

Tori spilled more dirt on her relationship with mom in this year's "Mommywood."

2. Drew Barrymore revealed shocking facts behind her adorable child star image in her unflinching 1990 book, "Little Girl Lost." Abandoned by her alcoholic father, saddled with a mother who didn't act like one, at seven, the "ET" cutie felt she was expected to behave like a 29-year-old. At nine, she was smoking and boozing, at 10 she was smoking pot, and by 12, she was on cocaine.

She co-wrote the best-selling "Little Girl Lost" at the older and wiser age of 14.

3. If "Little Girl Lost" isn't enough to convince readers that it's hard growing up a child star who is part of an acting dynasty plagued by substance abuse problems, then Tatum O'Neal's "A Paper Life" will do the trick.

In it, she says, among many other things, that her father, Ryan O'Neal, seethed with jealousy over her acclaim for their "Paper Moon" film, that he punched her in the face when he learned of her Academy Award nomination, and that on Oscar night when she was the youngest winner in history, neither of her parents attended the ceremony. Her mother, Joanna Moore, was a hopeless addict and the family was riddled with drug abuse.

4. Disguised as a caring mother's memoir of faith and perseverance through tough times, Britney Spears' female parent, Lynne Spears' "Through the Storm" of last year had plenty of OMG factor in it, assuring lots of interest. She told the world, for instance, that her superstar daughter lost her virginity at age 14, long before her famous hookup with Justin Timberlake, and she gabbed on embarrassingly about Britney's past breakdowns.

Yeah. That does explain a lot.

5. With his 1993 autobiography and tons of tabloid tales, we already knew a lot of dirt about '50s and '60s matinee idol Tony Curtis -- his sexual conquests, drug use, adultery, the fact he snorted cocaine with daughter Jamie Lee Curtis when she was a young adult. So what could be left to shock us now, in his "Some Like it Hot: My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Making of the Classic Movie"?

How about his claim that he and Marilyn Monroe were lovers and she miscarried their baby? He writes, "When I was in bed with Marilyn, I was never sure, before, during or after, where her mind was. She was an actress. She could play a part. She could give the part what she thought a man wanted. I never asked for more."

Wow, and before this, we were left with his declaration that kissing Monroe was like "kissing Hitler." What happened?

6. Perennially breezy and charming George Hamilton joined the tell-all ranks last year with his "Don't Mind if I Do" memoir, in which he disclosed that he lost his virginity at age 12, to his stepmother. Ew.

Also, George dished on relationships with Mamie Van Doren, Judy Garland, Danielle Steel and -- her again -- Marilyn Monroe. They had a date but didn't hit it off.

7. Maureen McCormick's "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice" reveals the former "Brady Bunch" sweetheart's anything-but-sweet life, hard-partying in the Hollywood fast lane, cocaine, quaaludes, depression, bulimia. And how she recovered and got back on track.

Her on-screen brother and off-screen sometimes romantic interest Barry Williams dropped his own bombshells in his "Growing Up Brady" years earlier, saying he went on a date with his on-screen mom, Florence Henderson. Florence pooh-poohed the idea of a romantic encounter, saying their outing was just platonic to her.

8. Christopher Ciccone revealed much about Madge in his 2008 tell-all, "Life With My Sister Madonna." Readers learned, for instance, that Madonna felt like she was reliving the Marilyn Monroe-J.F.K. relationship when she had a thing with J.F.K., Jr. They were told that she'd sized up actor John Enos and b-baller Dennis Rodman before settling on Carlos Leon as her baby daddy, even though she said Leon didn't come up to her hoped-for intelligence quotient.

Bro' also squealed on Madonna's ex, Sean Penn, becoming his "blood brother" in an inspired moment with a pocket knife -- and years later, approaching the openly gay Christopher to ask him if he'd been tested for AIDS.

9. If sex,drugs and rock 'n' roll turn you on, there's super groupie Pamela Des Barres' "I'm with the Band" tell-all, in which she clues readers in on what it's like to have sex with the likes of Mick Jagger and Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, who she says was into whips and handcuffs. Told in a humorous, good-time-was-had-by-all tone.

10. "Mommie Dearest." The one that started it all. Christina Crawford's harrowing 1978 expose about her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford, sent shock waves through Hollywood, spawned a movie with Faye Dunaway and countless send-ups on shows from "Saturday Night Live" to "Project Runway" -- and was at least partly responsible for a spate of celebrity tell-alls that followed. (Among them: texts by the daughter of Bette Davis and by one of Bing Crosby's sons).

The book alleges: Crawford insisted upon Christina and her siblings addressing her as Mommie Dearest. She had alcoholic rages and attacked Christina physically many times -- including once trying to strangle her and the infamous episode wherein Crawford exploded over finding wire hangers instead of covered or wooden hangers in Christina's closet. She was germ phobic, compulsive. She made the children refer to her many lovers as "uncle" or "daddy."

Pundits today conjecture that she may have been bipolar or have had borderline personality disorder. Whatever, Christina certainly made good on her vow that Joan would not have the last word by leaving her out of her will.