JULY 13, 1984

AT THE MOVIES, Art Carney, Joan Rivers, and Brooke Shields team up with Jim Henson in The Muppets Take Manhattan. IN MUSIC, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. (left) lands at No. 1 in its third week; it would stay on the Billboard LP chart for 84 weeks. IN BOOKSTORES, Wired, Bob Woodward's heralded John Belushi bio, is the best-selling nonfiction book on the New York Times list. AND IN THE NEWS, one day after Walter Mondale makes her the first woman on a major presidential ticket, VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro hits the campaign trail.