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Looks like Jennifer Garner won't be needing another alias after all.

The actress was granted a permanent restraining order against a fan she described as "obsessive and harassing" in Los Angeles Superior Court this morning, preventing Steven Burky from coming into contact with either Garner or her burgeoning family for three years.

Under the terms of the new order, the 36-year-old Burky, who Garner claims has been stalking her since at least 2002, must stay 100 yards away from the actress, world-saving hubby Ben Affleck and their 2-year-old daughter, Violet.

The alleged stalker is also prohibited from going near the couple's home, Violet's school or Garner's place of work, and the order lasts through Nov. 20, 2011.

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Jennifer Garner could really use an alias about now.

The actress has obtained a temporary restraining order against a 36-year-old fan she claims has been stalking her since at least 2002, E! News has learned.

In her protection order dated Nov. 7, Garner claims Steven Burky—described as 6-foot-1, 145 pounds, and blond with blue eyes—engaged in "obsessive and harassing behavior" that included sending her "packages and letters containing delusional and paranoid thoughts and following me around the country."

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That's megan's hilarious entry in our strangely prescient Jennifer Garner caption exercise. As you'll remember from E!'s Live from the Red Carpet Oscar coverage, Ryan Seacrest found out that Busey is a really big fan of Garner's.

As we all know since we first posted this, Jennifer Garner has kind of confirmed the never-ending stories out there alleging she is with child. And some of your were totally on that wavelength.

Some of our favorites were:

rach n bake: "Oh no I left Violet in the other car!!!"

Paige "Exit....Stage left!"

Christine: "My New Alias: Undercover Mother"

sensorchips: "I gotta pee"

No, not Aniston. Everyone just calm down.

Jennifer Garner covered her growing baby bump yesterday with the very same floral maxi Angelina used to conceal the growing place of the Golden Twins while in New Orleans saving someone this past March.

It's pretty risky to wear the same dress as Angie because, well, she's Angelina Jolie, greatest human to walk the planet (except for Bono). But Jennifer seems up to the challenge, so bring on the judgment!

Which pregnant star rocks the prairie floral the best?

—Via FadedYouthBlog

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As Angelina knows all too well, those costars can be real bean spillers sometimes. But Victor Garber isn't one of them.

The actor who played Jennifer Garner's dad on Alias tells E! News that his words were taken out of context when UsMagazine.com quoted him responding, "Yes, she is," to the question of whether Garner was expecting child No. 2 with hubby Ben Affleck.

"I haven't confirmed that at all, no," Garber said tonight at an ABC event. "I know they want to have another child and hopefully that's true, but I don't know that."

"No, I know that they are hoping to be," the Eli Stone star added. "I just don't know that it's for sure. It's a very...personal thing."

None of which means, however, that Garner isn't pregnant.

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Do we smell a Tony nomination?

Jennifer Garner continues her emergence from maternity leave, sniffing out a starring role in the Broadway revival of the proboscis-powered romantic classic Cyrano de Bergerac.

She'll play as Roxanne to Kevin Kline's schnoz-enhanced hero in the limited-engagement production, which kicks off Nov. 1 at the Richards Rodgers Theater. The show will run through Dec. 23.

Daniel Sunjata will play Roxanne's other suitor, the handsome if inept Christian.

The new production of Edmond Rostand's 1897 magnum opus features a translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange).

This will be Garner's Broadway debut. The 35-year-old former Alias star took nearly a year off from acting following the birth of her and husband Ben Affleck's daughter, Violet, in December 2005.

She most recently appeared onscreen in the January bomb Catch and Release, which was actually shot before Violet's birth. Garner has two other films set to unspool this year.

First up is the terrorism thriller The Kingdom, also starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jeremy Piven and Jason Bateman and due out Sept. 28.

Garner also appears in the dramedy Juno with Bateman, Michael Cera, Allison Janney, Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page. The film premieres at next month's Toronto International Film Festival and is set for limited theatrical release in December.

Garner no doubt hopes her premiere performance on the Great White Way is better received than Julia Roberts'. The Pretty Woman took to the boards in Three Days of Rain during her own comeback from baby-tending duties but failed to endear herself to theater critics.

Of course, Kline has made a career of endearing himself to critics. The actor, who has two Tonys to go along with his Oscar, will be Broadway's first Cyrano in more than 20 years.

Derek Jacobi last played the role in a 1984 Royal Shakespeare Company production. José Ferrer, arguably the most famous modern Cyrano, starred in a 1946 revival and won an Oscar for the 1950 film version. And Steve Martin memorably parodied the play in his hit 1987 big-screen comedy Roxanne, with Daryl Hannah.

Next up for Matt Damon: The Bourne Environmentalism.

The actor is one of a handful of celebs, including Damon's longtime pal Ben Affleck, who have teamed up with the Center for American Progress Action Fund to appear in Clean My Ride, Flex My Fuel, a series of short videos meant to raise awareness about climate change and the need for alternative fuel sources.

Spoofing the action hero persona he's cultivated in the blockbuster Jason Bourne trilogy, which continues Aug. 3 with The Bourne Ultimatum, Damon, dressed as a flex-fuel pump, urges Congress to get on the ball and then punches a guy who asks him to dance.

"Come on, Congress. Come on, big oil. Mandate cleaner cars and cleaner fuel," the 36-year-old good sport says. "A little bit of corn and a pinch of can-do attitude is all it takes. And kids love it, too. Yippee…

"I feel like I'm being Punk'd."

Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner, Sarah Silverman, Jason Biggs and Joshua Jackson also took time out to appear in Clean My Ride, Flex My Fuel, which follows an activist named Phin and his team of A-listers on their quest to educate the masses about ethanol and other substitutes for what's currently coming out of most gas pumps.

"He has a limp, cause and his own theme song," a deep-voiced narrator intones.

The first video in the six-part series will be available for viewing on youtube.com and on the Clean My Ride Website starting Tuesday, with new installments to follow tomorrow and Thursday. Visitors to the site can also print out a form letter to send to Washington encouraging lawmakers to adopt a 35 mile-per-gallon fuel economy standard by 2020—a target Detroit automakers have called unachievable.

As Al Gore has helped prove, however, quite a few Hollywood types disagree with the Motown bigwigs.

Affleck, for one, appears in Clean My Ride, Flex My Fuel as an ear of corn—a possible alt-fuel source, of course—that offers to take down "Big Oil."

"Congress bows to fear," Affleck-as-corn hisses. "I bring the fear. Does big oil sleep around? Got bad credit? I'll find the dirt. And I will make big oil regret the day it ever uttered the words 'price gouging.'"

The Hollywoodland star's missus, Jennifer Garner, gets to wear regular clothes, however, as does Sarah Silverman, who disses her mother for driving a gas guzzler in her signature snide yet passive-aggressive way.

The Center for American Progress think tank is headed up by Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, John Podesta.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck took the traditional route this year when it came time to inject a little Christmas spirit into their lives.

The couple had their one-year-old daughter Violet baptized Sunday morning during the a.m. Christmas Eve service at Christ Church United Methodist in Garner's hometown of Charleston, West Virginia, giving the congregation an A-list celebrity sighting to go along with their tidings of comfort and joy.

Garner's niece, Alex, daughter of the Alias star's younger sister, Susannah, was also baptized alongside Violet by lead pastor Randy Flanagan, who knew ahead of time that Ben & Jen were headed his way but didn't think it necessary to prep his parishioners. 

"They just came to church," Flanagan told the Charleston Daily Mail on Tuesday. "We were able to celebrate the baptism for two children in the church. It was a very special celebration. I can say that about every baptism at the church. It's a special privilege for every single child we baptize."

The pastor also said that his congregation seemed to be able to keep their minds on the service, although some of the younger worshipers glancing over their shoulders during his sermon may have been a little distracted.

While Garner's parents, William and Patricia, are longtime members of Christ Church, Flanagan told the newspaper that he had never met the 13 Going on 30 actor, or her Golden Globe-nominated hubby, before Sunday.

"She's a really nice person," Flanagan said. "I appreciate the Garner family very, very much. Bill and Pat are very precious people to the church. It really was just a nice Sunday and nothing out of the ordinary."

Speaking of nothing out of the ordinary, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continued their holiday tradition of traveling to the far corners of the globe to do unto others.

The pair spent Christmas in Costa Rica handing out presents to Colombian refugee children and their families who had to flee the South American country due to the ongoing violent conflict between the government, leftist rebels, conservative paramilitaries and criminal gangs. 

Costa Rica is now home to more than 10,000 of the 500,000 Colombians who have been forced to leave their homeland, according to the UN News Centre. At least three million have been displaced internally by the conflict.

"It is especially shocking that that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it," Jolie, a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the High Commissioner for Refugees, said. "My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them."

After doling out gifts, Pitt and Jolie watched a dance performance put on by some of the children at the refugee camp and then stuck around to speak with the residents.

"It's been sad for me to hear so many negative stories that show confusion between refugees, who are the victims of the conflict, and some criminal elements," Jolie said. "We had a wonderful Christmas here with the Costa Rican people and refugee families." 

A newly single Kid Rock was also busy giving back this year. The "Cowboy" rocker met up with U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait and Iraq to spread a little good cheer and show his appreciation for the sacrifices they have made to fight for their country.

"This year for Christmas I wanted to make sure somebody was thanking our troops for their service, no matter what our views are on the current situation in Iraq," Rock said in a statement.  

According to his Website blog, Rock traveled Sunday to three different camps in Iraq, where he sang and signed autographs for 16 hours, "old school style through s--tty speakers and no mic stand," and had "one of the most thrilling rides of [his] life in a Blackhawk…with some real 'rock n roll cowboy pilots'!!"

"I am very proud and happy to be here with some of the finest men and women in the world on Christmas Eve," he wrote. 

"These troops bust their asses here and that's the real story, long hours, 140 degree summers and freezing nights this time of year, walking around with 60 or 70 pounds of gear, bathrooms and showers are worse than any ghetto I've ever stayed in... No matter what you think of this war, you have to support and respect our troops. I know all of us do, but maybe try and show a little more if you can."

Rock is scheduled to entertain the troops until Dec. 29, after which he'll head back to the States to host a New Year's Eve party at the Las Vegas nightclub Jet.